Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Launches Today: Price, Platforms and What's New

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is out today on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with the Nintendo Switch version landing at the same time instead of trailing behind like Konami originally planned. It is the first mainline Castlevania in years built by an outside studio, with the series handed to Evil Empire and Motion Twin, the team behind Dead Cells. Here is what the launch actually includes, what each edition costs, and how the new hero plays.

Release date trailer, via Konami's official YouTube channel.

Rose Belmont steps into the family trade

Belmont’s Curse is set in Paris in 1499, twenty-three years after the events of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. A fire has swept the city and monsters are pouring out of it, and Rose Belmont, daughter of series veteran Trevor Belmont, picks up the family whip to find out why. Trevor joins the hunt alongside her, and the trail leads from the catacombs under Paris up into a reimagined Dracula’s castle that mixes brand-new rooms with nods to stages from earlier games in the series. It is a 2D side-scrolling action-exploration game in the Metroidvania mold rather than a direct remake of any one past entry.

Platforms, price and release timing

Konami’s own release date for Belmont’s Curse is Thursday, October 15, 2026, across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store. The Switch version, originally slated for later in the year, was moved up in a July announcement so every platform launches together. Worth knowing before you buy: Steam’s own store page lists the release date as October 14 in some region settings, which looks like a timezone quirk in how the storefront displays the date rather than a real gap between versions. If your library shows it as already unlocked, that is why.

The Standard Edition runs $29.99, and a Midnight Edition is $39.99. Both editions include a pre-order bonus, the Alucard Style Costume, an in-game cosmetic for Rose. A free demo is also live right now on Steam, Switch, PS5 and Xbox Series if you want to try the opening stretch before committing to either edition.

What you get in the Midnight Edition

The $10 jump to the Midnight Edition is mostly cosmetic and bonus content rather than extra story:

• Everything in the Standard Edition
• A digital Sound and Art Gallery
• Trevor Style Costume
• Sypha Style Costume
• Family’s Grace, an in-game Relic

Whip combat, Arcana and the bosses waiting in the castle

The Vampire Killer whip still does double duty as weapon and movement tool. Rose can swing from hanging chains and fixtures like a trapeze artist, then drop straight into an attack, and the demo's opening catacombs stretch leans on that rhythm for both platforming and combat. Weapons are split across seven categories beyond the whip, and Relics stack offensive and defensive effects that let you lean the build toward speed, damage, or survivability.

Boss fights feed into a new system called Arcana: beat a boss and Rose seals it into one of her tarot cards, unlocking a spell or special action tied to that fight. Confirmed bosses include Death, Medusa, Carmilla and Joan of Arc, each with their own arena and attack pattern rather than a reused template. It is the clearest new mechanic the game is leaning on to stand apart from older entries in the series, and it gives boss fights a second purpose beyond just clearing a gate.

Quick facts

• Developer: Evil Empire and Motion Twin, published by Konami
• Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam, Microsoft Store), Nintendo Switch
• Release date: October 15, 2026
• Price: $29.99 Standard / $39.99 Midnight Edition
• ESRB rating: T for Teen, for blood, violence and mild suggestive themes

Belmont’s Curse is a genuine changing of the guard for the series: a new protagonist, a new development team, and a boss system built to be replayed rather than just beaten once. If you played and liked Dead Cells' combat feel, this is the closest Konami has come to handing that studio's instincts a full Castlevania canvas. Full details on editions, pre-order bonuses and system requirements are on Konami's official Belmont's Curse page, and the ESRB rating summary lays out exactly what content earned the T rating if you're buying for a younger player.