Four knights, a couch, blows flying everywhere, and a memory that sticks.

What hits first is attachment: ahead of 85% of games, for a hand-drawn beat 'em up from 2008. The soundtrack climbs even higher, ahead of 93% of titles, though on few votes and that one needs confirming. Desert island follows, ahead of 61%. And then comes the tension: fun and controller feel both stay below the middle, around 40%, and the art style falls even lower, ahead of only a quarter of games. Odd, for a game whose linework is its whole signature. The message is fairly clear: people love Castle Crashers for what they lived with it, not for how it plays today.

Compared to beat 'em ups that bet everything on impact and readable combat, Castle Crashers plays a different card: joyful chaos with friends, absurdity, the couch session that goes off the rails.

So, who is it for? For you if you like laughing with three buddies while pounding on monsters, and if a gleefully unhinged soundtrack can follow you for years. Much less so if you play alone and want precise, demanding combat.