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Castle Crashers hits one million players photo

Yesterday saw a milestone for Castle Crashers as the XBLA side-scrolling beat-em-up hit one million players. After only ten months on the service at that.

It should not come as any surprise. The game has managed to keep itself in the top ten games purchased over Live Arcade even as recently as last month where it spent at least three of the four weeks in the top three. Still, that's a metric s--t ton of sales for an indie developer.

A well-deserved metric s--t ton if you ask me. Despite the multiplayer and savegame glitches which plagued the title for many months after release, it was and remains one of the very best games on the service. Congratulations, Behemoth! 


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FalconReaper's Avatar
FalconReaper at 06/23/2009 10:39
I say congrats to them. They made a great game ( and one of my personal favorites) and its nice to see them succeed
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falinter at 06/23/2009 10:48
If they came out with more levels and such I'd consider going back to it. I'd probably pay for more laughs.
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Char Aznable at 06/23/2009 10:53
Congratulations, Behemoth. I love this god damned game, and would gladly pay for an expansion or a full-fledged sequel.

What's up with the Necromancer dude and the boss being playable characters? Did that ever happen? I haven't checked out Castle Crashers in a few months, so I may have missed it.
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Holyetheline at 06/23/2009 10:59
Wow. And to think the first time I played this game was so long ago... but I've had so many awesome memories of it with my friends.
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Jack Maverick at 06/23/2009 11:10
You know what would make them gain more players? Putting it on PSN.

Come on, Behemoth, some PS3 users could use some love.
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hpv at 06/23/2009 12:14
And with all that loot they can afford a PS3 port. Castle Crashers is one of maybe three games on Xbox that I have any interest in playing. It really should have been on PS3 in the first place, it's indie sensibilities would be much more at home on PSN than on Live Arcade.
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funran at 06/23/2009 12:21
I'd love it on ps3, but obviously it felt right at home on live, having a million players and all....... still i'd buy it on ps3.
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eskimo bob at 06/23/2009 13:30
... and I still haven't bought it; something I've been thinking of doing since the game's release.
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zombiekiller13 at 06/23/2009 13:44
This is the only XBLA game that I've gone back and played multiple times. It is way too much fun.

I'm looking forward to Behemoth's next game. Hopefully it will be just as addictive as Castle Crashers.
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danpaladin at 06/23/2009 14:45
thanks <3<3<#<3<#<#<#<3<3
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Freefall at 06/23/2009 15:09
Hell yeah! My and my pal are always doing some Castle Crashers when we meet up. Bloody fantastic game!
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smurfee mcgee at 06/23/2009 15:18
Awesome. The game is fantastic. And yeah I want more.
Did anyone guess this correctly? the contest where you were supposed to guess when this was going to happen.
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Conrad Zimmerman at 06/23/2009 17:37
@smurfee mcgee: The winner was within three minutes, which is pretty damn amazing.
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Dexter345 at 06/23/2009 20:42
Woo.
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