Castlevania
Castlevania is the story of one cursed castle, refought across forty years and several distinct design philosophies. The early games, from Castlevania III through Super Castlevania IV and Rondo of Blood, are tight, brutal action platformers built around the Belmont clan's vampire-hunting whip.
Then came Symphony of the Night, which traded linear levels for a sprawling, RPG-flavored map you explore at will. It was so influential it gave the whole genre a name, and the handheld Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS entries refined that template for a decade.
The franchise also crosses into other media with real success: the Lords of Shadow reboot reimagined the mythology, and Netflix's animated Castlevania and its sequel Nocturne turned the games' gothic melodrama into some of the best action animation on TV.
The Castlevania franchise spans 2 series, 21 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Series
Games
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1990)
- Super Castlevania IV (1991)
- Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993)
- Castlevania: Bloodlines (1994)
- Castlevania: Dracula X (1995)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (2001)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (2002)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003)
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (2003)
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005)
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (2005)
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (2006)
- Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (2007)
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (2008)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD (2013)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014)
- Castlevania Requiem: Symphony of the Night & Rondo of Blood (2018)
- Castlevania Anniversary Collection (2019)
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse (2026)