Castle Crashers®
BANGER · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB RAM, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2014. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 81 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BattleBlock Theater® ($14.99, scores 100) beats it on value, while it beats Rampage Knights ($12.99, scores 78).
The math says it holds its tier up to $52.16, and you are being asked for $14.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 9,835 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
7.2 hours to finish it, 35 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
140,629 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
47% start to 22% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
443 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Best game I've ever played, Best music for a game not to mention the most nostalgic, over all 10/10 game, makes me miss playing it on the Xbox 360
came back after PBP dropped. first character i ever beat insane mode with was my own ♥♥♥ drawing of dallas from payday 2. 100/5 stars
Nota Geral | Overall Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Castle Crashers é um beat 'em up simpático e competente, com um visual cartunesco carismático e um combate cooperativo divertido pra jogar com amigos, mas que não passa muito disso. A The Behemoth criou um jogo que cumpre exatamente o que promete, ação em grupo, humor bobo e progressão de personagem simples, sem tentar ser nada além disso. Funciona bem como experiência casual, mas não...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Castle Crashers® scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204360/castle-crashersThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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