Games like Castle Crashers®
If Castle Crashers® is your kind of game, the closest matches are Brimstone Brawlers - Early Access, Clan N and Jelly Brawl — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and competitive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Castle Crashers is a side-scrolling action RPG developed by The Behemoth that centers on arena-fighting encounters. Players choose from character-customization options and engage in combat using dual-wielding-weapons mechanics, with community-content adding variety to the experience. Reviewers highlight that new DLC keeps the game fresh, while players describe it as competitive, nostalgic, and retro. Originally released in 2012, the game carries a 97% positive rating from over 44,000 Steam reviews and is verified to run on Steam Deck, with a current price of 14.99 USD.
About Castle Crashers®: Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Players who liked Castle Crashers® also play
Steam players who put hours into Castle Crashers® also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Brimstone Brawlers - Early Access
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Castle Crashers®.
Top pick for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
A gothic arena brawler combining hazard-filled stages with MOBA-style abilities. Battle as unique misfits in a cursed city teetering on the edge of ruin.
Clan N
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Fight alone or with your friends, master the art of battle and bring peace back to the land in this arcade inspired epic brawler!
Jelly Brawl
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Jelly Brawl is a sticky and destructive multiplayer party game where you gotta jiggle, flop, and pop your way to the top! Fight alone or against friends for freedom from a mad king across tons of stages, mini games, and modes as you wrestle to be the last jelly standing!
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Castle Crashers®.
Ranked #4 for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Sacrifice Your Friends
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Succumb to madness and come Sacrifice Your Friends! Dangerous arenas, eldritch weapons, lovecraftian creatures, and a lot of fun await you.
Cannibal Cuisine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
The god Hoochooboo is hungry… for you. But serving is better than being served in this co-op cook 'em up! Chop up vegetables, fruits and tourists and serve your divine delicacies in arcade style with up to 4 chefs!
River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Castle Crashers®.
Ranked #7 for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Castle Crashers®.
This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Castle Crashers® fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
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Broforce
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Shares character customization and a retro mood with Castle Crashers®.
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
Absolum
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Castle Crashers®.
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge reunites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they kick shell in a beautifully realized beat ’em up.
Foul Play
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Play as the daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth in a side-scrolling co-op brawler set entirely on the grand spectacle of a theatre stage that rewards performance over pummeling. Perform shattering takedowns and reversals!
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Castle Crashers®.
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
River City Ransom: Underground
WHY THIS
Shares character customization and a retro mood with Castle Crashers®.
Reviewers of Castle Crashers® cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Alex and Ryan must take to the streets to help a new crop of fighters. You'll earn money, unlock moves, and upgrade your skills in a sprawling city. This modern take on an old classic features over 500 unique street fighting moves, dozens of weapons, and fun online multiplayer modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Castle Crashers® at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Crashers®.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Action with Castle Crashers®.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Action with Castle Crashers®.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Castle Crashers®.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Castle Crashers®.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Castle Crashers® on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Crashers®.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Crashers®.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Castle Crashers®.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Castle Crashers®.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Crashers®.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Castle Crashers®.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers®. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Pit People®
WHY THIS
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers®. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Alien Hominid Invasion
WHY THIS
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers®. Shares Action with Castle Crashers®.
Old friends and bitter enemies await as you invade Earth alongside a Mothership full of alien friends! Blast, beam, and bite your way through an endless swarm of enemies as you and up to three of your fellow hominids cause mayhem with a huge arsenal of weapons, mutations, and acrobatic maneuvers.
Alien Hominid HD
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Castle Crashers®.
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers®. Shares Action and Indie with Castle Crashers®.
The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
BEHEMOTH
WHY THIS
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers®. Shares Action and Casual with Castle Crashers®.
Dodge ‘n flap your wings in this new arcade extravaganza from The Behemoth! In BEHEMOTH™, you become one with the chicken to secure your flock in the nest and collect as much candy corn as possible!
Frequently asked about Castle Crashers®
- Is Castle Crashers® verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Castle Crashers® is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Castle Crashers® cost?
- Castle Crashers® is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Castle Crashers® have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Castle Crashers® supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Castle Crashers®?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Castle Crashers® are Brimstone Brawlers - Early Access, Clan N, Jelly Brawl.
- Who developed Castle Crashers®?
- Castle Crashers® was developed by The Behemoth.
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