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How to play Castle Crashers on four phones

Castle Crashers is built for four player couch co-op, and the phone layout matches it cleanly. LIGHT, HEAVY, JUMP, MAGIC, BLOCK, USE, all labeled, all big enough for thumbs. Scan a QR code and you're in.

Here is what using it looks like

1. Open QR Controller on the PC. It's on Steam, and the Castle Crashers layout ships with it.
2. Set Controller Type to Castle Crashers and add a controller for each player, up to four.
3. Everyone scans the QR code with their phone camera. The controller opens in the browser, labels and all.
4. Players appear in the app as they join. Drag them between slots if you need to swap who is player one.
5. Start the game and press JUMP to join in, same as any gamepad.

The layout

It's a brawler, so the buttons are the attacks and actions from the game. The labels help if someone hasn't played before, they can see LIGHT and MAGIC without guessing which face button is which.

If you need players three and four, thats just two more QR scans.