Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Release Date, Editions & Preorder Bonuses

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse — the new 2D metroidvania from Dead Cells studio Evil Empire and publisher Konami — launches Thursday, October 15, 2026 on PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. It is a mid-priced release: $29.99 / €29.99 for the standard edition, $39.99 for the Midnight Edition with its soundtrack, art and outfits, and roughly $10 more for physical versions. Digital preorders get an Alucard-style outfit. This page collects every buying decision in one place — platforms, editions, bonuses and direct links — with unconfirmed details clearly marked.

Release date: Thursday, October 15, 2026

The date is official: October 15, 2026, a Thursday — the industry’s standard global launch day. Rose Belmont’s hunt through 1499 Paris begins the same day worldwide; no regional stagger has been announced.

What is not announced: the exact unlock hour per storefront. Digital releases typically unlock at midnight local time or mid-morning Pacific, but that is the general pattern of the industry, not a Konami statement about this game. We will post the confirmed unlock times for PS5, Switch, Xbox and Steam the moment they are published — and after launch, this section becomes a record of when each store actually went live.

If you’re buying digitally and want to play at midnight, the preorder pages below are already accepting orders. Preload timing has not been announced either; when Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Valve publish their preload windows, we will add them here — a 10 GB install (per the posted PC specs) should take minutes, not hours, on a modern connection.

Every platform, confirmed and otherwise

Platform	Status	Notes
PS5	Confirmed	Full launch platform
Nintendo Switch	Confirmed	Full launch platform
Xbox Series X|S	Confirmed	No Xbox One version announced
PC (Steam)	Confirmed	Store page live now
PS4	Not announced	No last-gen PlayStation version
Nintendo Switch 2	Unconfirmed	An eShop listing exists, but Konami has not announced a native version

The honest summary of that table: four confirmed platforms, one ruled out (PS4), one genuinely unresolved (Switch 2). The Switch 2 eShop listing is real but is not a confirmation — storefronts regularly carry placeholder entries, and until Konami announces a native version, playable status on Switch 2 (including whether the Switch version simply runs in compatibility mode) is an open question. We will update this row the day there is an official statement either way.

What each edition includes

Edition	Price	What you get
Standard (digital)	$29.99 / €29.99	The full game
Midnight Edition (digital)	$39.99	Full game, 71-track original soundtrack, 100+ pieces of concept art, Trevor and Sypha outfits, the “Family’s Grace” relic
Physical	About $10 more	The game on a cartridge or disc; regional pricing varies

The Midnight Edition math is straightforward: for the extra $10 you are effectively buying the soundtrack and art book — 71 tracks is roughly three to four hours of music, a generous count for a mid-priced release — while the Trevor and Sypha outfits and the “Family’s Grace” relic are the in-game carrots. What the relic does is not detailed in the announcement; we will document its effect at launch. Note that in a game about Trevor Belmont’s daughter, outfits for her father and mother are more than cosmetics — they are the closest thing to playable Trevor announced so far, though alternate playable characters as such have not been announced.

The physical version costs about $10 above standard retail and, beyond the game itself, its extra contents are not announced — if any. Collectors should also know that special retailer editions have not been announced; if any appear before launch, they’ll be added here.

The preorder bonus: an Alucard-style outfit

Digital preorders include an Alucard-style outfit for Rose. It’s a nod with teeth: Alucard — Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, the half-vampire son of Dracula and hero of Symphony of the Night — is the series’ most beloved character, and dressing the newest Belmont in his style says something about where this story sits in the family tree. Whether the outfit is preorder-exclusive or later purchasable is not announced.

Where to order: official links

Order from the source pages rather than third-party resellers:

• Official Konami site: konami.com/games/castlevania/belmonts_curse — the canonical product page, with links out to each regional storefront.
• Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4231820 — the PC store page, live now with the system requirements posted. Our PC requirements breakdown covers what the modest specs mean for your hardware.

PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store and Nintendo eShop listings live under their regional storefronts — the Konami page above links each region, which avoids stale direct URLs.

Why the date matters: 1499, 500 years before 1999

For series fans, October 15 lands a story milestone. Belmont’s Curse is set in 1499 Paris, 23 years after Castlevania III (1476), with Rose Belmont — Trevor’s daughter — hunting through Dracula’s Castle and the city, a curse spreading down her arm. The year is no accident: 1499 sits exactly 500 years before the decisive demon-castle war of 1999 that closes out the saga’s chronology. What the game does with that anniversary is the biggest open question going in — the tagline “Despair or Salvation” is all Konami has said about endings, and the number of endings is not announced.

Updated at launch — October 15

This page is rewritten on October 15, 2026: confirmed unlock times per storefront, any store-exclusive bonuses, final physical availability and pricing, and the Switch 2 question answered if Konami has spoken by then. Prices and contents above reflect the official announcements as of August 2026 — where a number says “about,” it’s because regional pricing flexes, and we say so rather than invent precision.