Castle Battles was one of the first indie darlings on the Xbox 360, showing gamers that the console’s Live Arcade wasn’t just a backwater for low-brow shovelware. Behemoth’s Flash animation-inspired arcade brawler became an instant classic, and over a decade later, it’s getting its biggest DLC yet on PC.
The Castle Battles The paid update “Painter Boss Paradise” was announced during a Behemoth Direct live stream today and will add a character editor that will let players design their own knight skins and share them on the Steam Workshop. When the DLC is live (there’s no release date yet), characters will be able to simply upload their image to a template, choose a magical power, and start beating up mobs as Mario, SpongeBob, Shrek, and any other copyright-problematic characters they can think of.
The DLC also includes a new playable character – Paint Junior – who fights his enemies with art. All existing characters will receive new player and weapon graphics that can be turned on and off depending on whether fans want to play with the original or the revamped look. It is not Castle Crashers 2which some fans will keep asking for, but it’s the most attention the game has received since the remake and should give players plenty to think about in the meantime.
Elsewhere in the presentation, The Behemoth announced updates and teasers for the rest of his back catalogue and beyond:
- BattleBlock Theater on Steam receives a quality-of-life update with better graphics, sounds, bug fixes, and more.
- Additionally, the puzzle platformer will finally leave the Xbox 360 console and receive a modern port to the Xbox Series X/S.
- Invasion of alien hominids And Alien Hominid HD coming for PS4 and PS5.
- Miners will also receive a quality-of-life update (still no word on a PlayStation port).
- The Behemoth is currently developing a prototype for a completely new game. A shooter? An open-world survival game? BattleBlock Monopoly? Who knows!
You can watch the full Behemoth Roadmap livestream on YouTube below:
