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Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“It's like another unofficial chapter in the Ghouls and Ghosts game series. It's not not challenging.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This game tickles me in a way that I don't always enjoy. I like the music, I like the visuals, I like the Spanish mythology, I like the gameplay. However, there is one big problem I have with this game: Things that are awful on purpose are still awful. For example, laying out…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“It's a pretty good game and takes a lot of inspiration from Ghosts n Goblins and Spanish folklore. I like how you get good stuff if you crouch or hit The Christ sign. Anyways, the game has good and some bad aspects from old games as well. Like difficulty mostly being due to not…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Cursed Castilla Steam Scream 2023 update!
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Maldita Castilla EX for Steam Awards
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | 2D Platformer · Multiple Endings · Side Scroller · Mythology · Fantasy · Adventure · Medieval · Platformer · Action-Adventure · Indie · Zombies · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Keyboard Only Option · Steam Cloud · Stats |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Official site | http://abylight.com/malditacastillaex/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8 o 10 Processor: 1GHz+ Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: 128 MB Storage: 100 MB available space