August 6, 2025 – Knights, ready your sword and paintbrush–it’s time to play Castle Crashers again in 2025! Painter Boss Paradise, the highly anticipated DLC for The Behemoth’s 2008 award-winning beat ‘em up, is now available for Steam! Watch the launch trailer here!
Inspired by the game’s legendary Painter Boss, the DLC introduces custom character capabilities through the Steam Workshop and features updated art for all official playable characters, weapons, world map, and more! Painter Boss Paradise also introduces Paint Junior, the first official character added to the Castle Crashers roster since Pink Knight and Blacksmith arrived back in 2011, complete with a new magic type that players can use for their custom creations.
“We did some quality of life updates to Castle Crashers while we overhauled the main menu for everyone and even the art in Backoff Barbarian mini-game!” shared Dan Paladin, co-founder and art director at The Behemoth. “Then we added a DLC with fresh takes on all playable characters, weapons, and the world map, in addition to letting you make your own characters! Don’t want to make anything? No problem! You can download a ton of new characters published in the Steam Workshop!”
Using the DLC template and newly introduced in-game toolkit, players can now design their own character’s head, body, weapon, shield, beefy form, portrait, and Back Off Barbarian mini-game piece! Those creating a custom character can easily edit the template with their art program of choice, automatically updating the art shown in the game’s DLC editor when the template is saved.
Painter Boss Paradise DLC Key Features
- Make your own custom characters with our template, and share them with the world! CREATE!
- New official character: play as Paint Junior, use your imagination, and unleash powerful art to vanquish your foes!
- New art for all official playable characters and weapons!
- New main menu art with eight scenes celebrating the world of Castle Crashers!
- New map art for fancier adventuring!
- Endless knightly possibilities – choose from community characters or an entire roster of DLC characters created by our team! Toggle them off or on at your whim!
- Worried about missing the nostalgic feel of the original game’s art? Toggle the DLC functionality on or off from the main menu at any time to experience the classic adventure!
Learn more about the DLC and how to use the custom character template at https://beh.gg/PBP
About Castle Crashers
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award-winning 2D arcade adventure! Initially released for the Xbox Live Arcade in August 2008, Castle Crashers took the gaming world by storm with its colorful hand-drawn art, hilarious animation, and addicting beat em’ up combat. After finding success on multiple platforms and receiving a remaster, this 4-player side-scroller is back with custom character capabilities, quality of life updates, and fresh art in the Painter Boss Paradise DLC!
About The Behemoth
Founded in 2003, The Behemoth is an indie game developer and publisher that pioneered the flash-to-console scene with Alien Hominid in 2002. For two decades, the studio has continued to create memorable gaming experiences like Castle Crashers, BattleBlock Theater, and Pit People, with a deep love for co-op (and co-optional!) titles. Self-publishing their games across a variety of platforms, The Behemoth has remained true to their indie roots with a small team that doesn’t rush the development process, maintaining a healthy love for their game creations.