40 Fun Facts About Castle Crashers

At the end of Castle Crashers, the last princess, her face hidden all game, turns out to be what?

A clown is the punchline: when the winning knight leans in for a kiss, she blankets the screen with penguins, weasels, kitties, hearts and rainbow beams.

Which Castle Crashers item turns a knight into a muscular giant able to open certain doors?

Sandwich power bulks the knight up, raising attack strength and letting the character shove aside heavy obstacles such as boulders.

Castle Crashers' Cyclops boss sinks into lava giving a thumbs-up, echoing the end of which film?

Terminator 2 ends with the T-800 lowered into molten metal with one thumb raised, and the dying Cyclops copies the gesture as he goes under.

Which indie studio, whose mascot is a chicken, developed and published Castle Crashers?

The Behemoth made it as the follow-up to Alien Hominid, and the studio reported in 2019 that sales had passed 20 million copies.

In Castle Crashers, the Red Knight's signature magic attacks enemies with what?

Lightning is the Red Knight's speciality, while the other three starting knights are Green with poison, Blue with ice and Orange with fire.

Castle Crashers programmer Tom Fulp founded which website, whose users wrote much of its music?

Newgrounds users supplied the soundtrack: the studio contracted more than twenty of them for tracks, then gave the album away free on the site days after launch.

Castle Crashers' Catfish boss coughs up what, which can stop the king's boat loading its cannon?

A hairball is the half-cat boss's weapon: unless knights destroy it, the Gray Knights on the king's boat cannot load the cannonball that stuns the beast.

Proceeds from one 2011 Castle Crashers character pack went to research into which disease?

Breast cancer research was the cause: the pack added the Pink Knight, and its proceeds were pledged to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Castle Crashers opens with a dark wizard kidnapping four princesses and stealing what?

A mystical crystal is the prize the wizard carries off from the king's party, and after the final battle the knights ride the recovered gem home across empty battlefields.

In co-op Castle Crashers, what decides which player wins the kiss from a rescued princess?

A duel to the death settles it: after each rescue the knights turn on one another, and the last one standing collects the kiss.

Castle Crashers first launched in August 2008 as a download-only game for which console?

Xbox 360 owners had it to themselves for two years, and it became the best-selling title of 2008 on the console's download service.

Which lead artist, who also drew Alien Hominid, created Castle Crashers' hand-drawn look?

Dan Paladin drew several partial versions of each character or backdrop before picking one to finish, and he also scored two tracks of the soundtrack himself.

Castle Crashers' lead artist named which older brawler as the primary inspiration for its art style?

River City Ransom was his model, above all for the faces its characters pull when they take a hit.

All You Can Quaff, a button-mashing minigame in Castle Crashers, is a contest to do what?

Eat the most food and you win, despite the drink-themed name: players hammer the buttons to make their knights gobble faster than their rivals.

Castle Crashers on PlayStation 3 replaced All You Can Quaff with which sport as a minigame?

Volleyball for up to four players and four computer-controlled characters was the exclusive extra, though GameSpot's reviewer dismissed the mode as lousy.

Finishing Castle Crashers unlocks which mode, where enemies and bosses are ten times stronger?

Insane Mode also opens a special store selling powerful but expensive weapons and animal orbs, and the remastered edition later cut its prices.

Defeating which Castle Crashers boss frees the Blue Princess, the third of the four to be rescued?

Frost King holds her in the Ice Castle; the Red and Green princesses are freed earlier, from the Barbarian Boss and the Cyclops.

Which Castle Crashers animal orb, dug up with the shovel, makes its owner gain experience faster?

Giraffey adds ten per cent to every experience gain, handy on the long climb to the level cap of 99.

Which Castle Crashers animal orb mauls weakened enemies but also turns on its own hurt owner?

BiPolar Bear pounces on any enemy down to its last sliver of health, and gives the same treatment to players and allies left with 11 hit points or fewer.

Which Castle Crashers animal orb raises its owner's Defense while lowering Agility?

Snailburt trades five points of speed for five of armour in the original release, a penalty the remastered edition softened to two.

Which unlockable Castle Crashers character, earned in an arena, starts with a Wooden Spoon?

Peasant is the spoon-wielder, unlocked by winning the arena that shares the character's name; finishing the story with that fighter then unlocks the Civilian.

Castle Crashers' Conehead, unlocked in the Volcano Arena, starts out armed with which weapon?

Light Saber in hand, the Conehead is one of more than 25 characters the game lets players unlock.

Completing Castle Crashers as the Red Knight unlocks which new playable character?

Skeleton is the Red Knight's reward, while the Green, Blue and Orange knights unlock the Royal Guard, the Industrialist and the Fire Demon.

Castle Crashers' first new add-on in over a decade, released in 2025, added which character?

Paint Junior arrived with the Painter Boss Paradise pack, which also redrew every official character and let players share custom skins.

Castle Crashers' first public demo, shown at Comic-Con in 2005, ran on which Nintendo console?

GameCube hardware ran that early demo, yet no Nintendo release was announced, and the game did not reach a Nintendo system until 2019.

Castle Crashers was first revealed at Comic-Con in 2005 under which tongue-in-cheek working title?

Ye Olde Side-Scroller was the placeholder name on the 2005 demo, and the final title arrived a year later, when a downloadable console release was announced.

Castle Crashers launched in 2008 as part of which annual promotion for downloadable games?

Summer of Arcade put it on sale in late August 2008, and by the end of 2010 the game had sold more than two million copies on that one console.

Castle Crashers' Windows and Mac version, released in 2012, was exclusive to which store?

Steam was the only place to buy the computer version, which later received the remastered upgrade as a free update.

Castle Crashers earned an Interactive Achievement Awards nomination for outstanding achievement in what?

Animation was the category; the game had already won an Excellence in Visual Art prize in 2007, more than a year before its release.

Castle Crashers' studio is based in which California city?

San Diego has been the studio's home since its founders teamed up to bring the Flash game Alien Hominid to consoles.

Like its influences Final Fight and Golden Axe, Castle Crashers belongs to which genre?

Beat 'em up is the label, with a twist: knights earn experience, level up and spend points on four attributes, as in a role-playing game.

One burrowing Castle Crashers boss is a giant, living version of which crop?

Corn is the crop: the boss sheds a kernel of popcorn each time he is hit, though every piece restores just a single hit point.

In Castle Crashers' Lava World, the dragon boss shares its fight with which unlikely partner?

A sock puppet is the dragon's partner, apparently worked by the monster itself: it rolls boulders down a slope and takes no damage.

Which Castle Crashers tool, used beside its own signposts, reveals secret areas and animal orbs?

Horn blasts beside the right signposts summon two hidden pets and open the way to a flooded temple, and they also knock nearby enemies off their feet.

Hatty Hattington becomes a playable Castle Crashers fighter for owners of which other game?

BattleBlock Theater is the game Hatty comes from, and the link runs both ways: owning both titles also unlocks Castle Crashers content inside it.

Before its release, Castle Crashers won an Excellence in Visual Art prize at which 2007 event?

Independent Games Festival voters honoured it in 2007, with the game not yet finished; the same studio's Alien Hominid had won there two years earlier.

Enemies hit by the Pink Knight's splash magic in Castle Crashers are stunned and flash what?

Peace signs pop up over every stunned foe, and the Pink Knight is also the only playable character who smiles during the game.

Castle Crashers' Pink Knight is also an unlockable character in which indie platformer?

Super Meat Boy includes the Pink Knight as a guest, in the edition sold on the same download service where Castle Crashers began.

Which shop-bought Castle Crashers animal orb makes food pickups restore more health?

Piggy, sold in the Swamp Village Store, doubles the health gained from fruit and adds half again to turkeys and burgers.

In which Castle Crashers level are the knights abducted by a tractor beam into an alien spacecraft?

Desert is where the saucers strike; the invaders come from Alien Hominid, and clearing their ship unlocks one as a playable character in most versions.