Castle Crashers®
BANGER · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.08/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 141,418
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.2h
- To 100%
- 34.4h 4.8x the story
- Finish
- 22% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2014
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 505 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
47% start to 22% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 82 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 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 $51.45, and you are being asked for $14.99.
More about Castle Crashers®
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 18. 19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,125 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 9,856 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, 34 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
141,418 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Its great fun, the combat is simple but works really well, there are plenty of characters to unlock, and the game does not take itself too seriously, the only problem is the online multiplayer, which is rubbish because of the lag... Apart from that, its a brilliant beat em up and is still fun to play today.
1 more review
genuinely a great game with a great enough gameplay loop that ive played it several times over across several platforms and still itch to play it every now and again. on top of a recent dlc and qol update that only increased its replayability is beyond incredible. shout outs to the behemoth
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB RAM, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Castle Crashers® scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204360/castle-crashersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.