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Castle Kong cover art

Castle Kong

Drowning Monkeys Games · 2020-06-05

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 25, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Relive classic arcade action in an all new title! 4 stages, 22 levels, and a kill screen. 1 coin* , 3 lives - set the high score. Stop the evil BaronMan and save PrincessGirl! *(Meaning no restarts or additional lives. there are no actual coins on the PC version of the game)

76%
positive of 54 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

PrincessGirl is outside one day picking flowers, thinking of her beloved PauperBoy, who will arrive shortly with a picnic basket when suddenly, BaronMan appears from seemingly out of nowhere and captures her! You play as PauperBoy. Save PrincessGirl!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 21,978 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320192025Week of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-06-05 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieActionPlatformerFree to Play

Census log

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Similarity via IGDB.

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