Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h 16.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 665 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
52 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blasphemous 2 ($7.49, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($19.99, scores 38).
More about Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
4 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
13% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
My summary: a beautifully done homage to classic 80s arcade games like Ghosts 'n Goblins or Willow, with a couple of flaws. Maldita Castilla EX is not just one of those games inspired by 80s arcade games (like the ones I mentioned), it very much plays and feels like an actual 80s arcade game. It's very hard, but not from the beginning. The first few levels are actually quite easy but some of the later ones are very...
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This game tickles me in a way that I don't always enjoy. I like the music, I like the visuals, I like the Spanish mythology, I like the gameplay. However, there is one big problem I have with this game: Things that are awful on purpose are still awful. For example, laying out your levels to be obnoxious instead of challenging is a bad idea, even if the material you are referencing did the same thing. Cursed Castilla...
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Cite this score
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/534290/cursed-castilla-maldita-castilla-exReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.