 The mascot and logo for The Behemoth | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | May 27, 2003; 22 years ago (2003-05-27) |
| Founder | John Baez Dan Paladin Tom Fulp |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | John Baez(CEO) Dan Paladin(CFO) Tom Fulp(secretary) |
| Products | Alien Hominid Castle Crashers BattleBlock Theater Pit People Alien Hominid Invasion Behemoth |
Number of employees | 20[1] (2024) |
| Website | thebehemoth |
The Behemoth is an Americanvideo game development company that was founded in 2003 byJohn Baez, artistDan Paladin, and programmersTom Fulp, Brandon LaCava, and Nick Dryburgh. Dryburgh and LaCava later left the company. The Behemoth development studio is located inSan Diego, California. The company is known for producing simple games with Paladin's signature 2D style. Its games are also known for their heavy arcade inspirations, especially among their early games, emulating genres common on theNeo Geo in particular (which Fulp is a noted fan of).
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During August 2002,Tom Fulp andDan Paladin collaborated in creating the Flash gameAlien Hominid forNewgrounds. The game has since become extremely popular and generated over twenty million hits. Later in the year, Paladin was working on developing a console video game when co-workerJohn Baez approached him. He was a fan of Alien Hominid and asked Paladin if he was interested in developing the game for consoles. When Baez offered to produce the game, Fulp and Paladin eventually agreed, recruited LaCava and Dryburgh, and formed The Behemoth in 2003. Several details in their games reveal a connected universe between all of them.
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Their firstconsole game,Alien Hominid, gained critical acclaim by the media and the members of The Behemoth quickly gained status asindie developers focused on bringing old-school styles of video games back into mainstream gaming. Some of the minigames fromAlien Hominid were ported toiOS in 2011.
The Behemoth's second game,Castle Crashers, was released August 27, 2008, originally for theXbox Live Arcade service, eventually re-releasing for thePlayStation 3 on August 31, 2010, andMicrosoft Windows/OS X on September 26, 2012. Since its release on Xbox Live Arcade,Castle Crashers has become one of the most downloaded games, with over 2 million copies sold as of year-end 2010.[2]
A third title,BattleBlock Theater, was released on April 3, 2013 on Xbox Live Arcade. The Windows, Linux, and macOS versions ofBattleBlock Theater were released on Steam on May 15, 2014.[3]
Pit People is a turn-based strategy game that was released for early access onSteam and was released for Xbox One on January 13, 2017. It was released on March 2, 2018.[4]
The Behemoth had long teased a "Game 5", which was announced in January 2020 asAlien Hominid Invasion, which the developers said was not a remake or remaster of the originalAlien Hominid but introduces new mechanics as an arcade shooter. It was released on November 1, 2023.[5]
In 2024, The Behemoth released anendless runner titledBehemoth on Steam. It allows players to take control of their mascot chicken.[6] The same year, they also announced an "update roadmap" for all their previously released titles.[7]
| Year | Title | Genre | Platform(s) | Additional note(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Alien Hominid | Run-and-gun | PlayStation 2,GameCube,Xbox,Game Boy Advance, Web (Adobe Flash Player demo) | |
| 2007 | Alien Hominid 360 | Run-and-gun | Xbox 360 | Remastered port, originally titledAlien Hominid HD |
| 2008 | Castle Crashers | Side-scrollinghack-and-slash | Xbox 360,PlayStation 3,Windows,macOS | |
| 2011 | Super Soviet Missile Mastar | Side-scrollingshooter | iOS | Minigame originally included inAlien Hominid |
| Alien Hominid: PDA Games | Platform | |||
| 2013 | Battleblock Theater | Comedyplatform | Xbox 360,Windows,macOS,Linux | |
| 2015 | Castle Crashers Remastered | Side-scrollinghack-and-slash | Xbox One,Windows,macOS,PlayStation 4,Nintendo Switch | Remastered port |
| 2018 | Pit People | Role-playingstrategy | Xbox One,Windows | |
| 2023 | Alien Hominid Invasion | Run-and-gun | Xbox Series X/S,Xbox One,Windows,Nintendo Switch,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 5 | |
| Alien Hominid HD | Run-and-gun | Xbox Series X/S,Xbox One,Windows,Nintendo Switch,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 5 | Remastered port | |
| 2024 | Behemoth | Bullet hell,Endless runner,Side scroller | Windows |
