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This 2012 2D beat 'em up from The Behemoth features online co-op for up to four players. With over 106,000 Steam reviews showing 96% positive sentiment, the title has a strong track record. It is a self-published title by The Behemoth.
Overview
Castle Crashers® is a 2012 Action game developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth. On Steam it has gathered 106,889 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer The Behemoth with publisher The Behemoth is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.8 million to 13.5 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Castle Crashers® can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
106,889
Positive
96%
Steam appid
204360
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.8M to 13.5M
units (median: 9.6M)
≈ $49.4M to $115.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_96% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Castle Crashers® at roughly 5.8 million to 13.5 million copies, with a median around 9.6 million, derived from its 106,889 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $82.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $7.63Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.63 to $14.99, averaging $14.34 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.63 on 2026-04-10.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
2DOnline Co-OpCo-opBeat 'em upHack and SlashFunnyAdventure4 Player LocalLocal Co-OpMultiplayerLocal MultiplayerActionSingleplayerMedievalCartoonyCuteComedyRPGArcadeCasual
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Castle Crashers® sold?
- indielist estimates Castle Crashers® has sold between 5,772,006 and 13,468,014 units (median 9,620,010), derived from its 106,889 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Castle Crashers®?
- Castle Crashers® was developed by The Behemoth and published by The Behemoth.
- When was Castle Crashers® released?
- Castle Crashers® was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Castle Crashers® have on Steam?
- Castle Crashers® has 106,889 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Castle Crashers® within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, The Behemoth's other releases and The Behemoth's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Castle Crashers® sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Castle Crashers® page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.