As I said in the previous section, the game saves the campaign progress when you beat a checkpointlevel. Now, let’s talk about how level skipping works. Please note that character progress is always saved as soon as it occurs (ex. For example, Barbarian War is a filler level: as soon as you beat it, Barbarian Boss becomes available on the map however, if you exit the game session at this point and start a new one, Barbarian Boss will be locked and you have to beat Barbarian War again before proceeding. Therefore, if you exit the game session and start a new one, you cannot immediately play the latest level unlocked but you have to unlock it again, playing the previous level(s). On the contrary, when you complete a fillerlevel, the next level is unlocked but the game does not save the campaign progress. I suggest you read the whole guide from the start, but there’s a Summing things up section with the essential points for the TL DR guys. I wrote the guide using a verbose style because I wanted to be as clear as possible. I had such problems myself, so I decided to make this guide for all the players who are having a hard time with level skipping and had no luck with the other guides. The result is that many players end up having issues: the campaign levels stay locked, the player does not get the silver/gold skull, the extra characters are missing.

However, they’re not always consistent and there are a few differences between the guides themselves.

There are a lot of good guides for level skipping out there. This procedure is known as level skipping and makes it possible to beat the game faster, also getting the silver/gold skull and unlocking the extra characters (when done right). Maybe you have heard this workaround somewhere on the web, many players already know it: it is possible to beat the Castle Crashers campaign mode skipping some of the regular levels. You tried to skip campaign levels but it didn’t work, or you skipped the levels with success but got no skull/character after beating the game.

Castle crashers character unlocks