Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse will arrive on 15th October, giving the long-running series a new 2D side-scrolling metroidvania on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC. The announcement puts a date on the next chapter in Konami’s vampire-hunting world and answers the question fans have been waiting to settle: when they can actually play it.
The timing matters because Belmont’s Curse is being positioned as part of Castlevania’s 40th anniversary, with a launch that lands across four major platforms on the same day. It is also being described as a 2D action-exploration game, a label that signals familiar side-scrolling combat and traversal rather than a reinvention of the formula.
The story moves more than two decades beyond Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse and into 15th century Paris, where the whip has passed to Trevor Belmont’s successor. This time the lead is a girl, heading out into the city to fight monstrous creatures before entering a mystical castle that threatens to plunge Paris into eternal darkness. That choice gives the game its sharpest hook: a woman taking up the Belmont name in a series built on inherited duty, and the old question of whether she can defeat Dracula sits right at the center of the premise without needing to be shouted.
Evil Empire is the main developer on Belmont’s Curse alongside Konami, with Motion Twin in an advisory role. The studio’s involvement also gives the project a line of continuity with recent Castlevania history, after Evil Empire previously worked on Dead Cells’ Return to Castlevania expansion in 2023. The new game follows a path that has become familiar for the team: support work, then a move into a larger genre assignment, then a full release of its own.
What remains to be seen is how much more Konami will reveal before October. For now, the key facts are set: Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse launches on 15th October, it will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC, and it is aiming to carry a classic series into its next era with a new hero at the front of the hunt.
