Castlevania owned and published by Konami.
The gaming authority when it comes to vampires, Castlevania is a decades-long franchise with - for the most part - a singular goal: Kill Dracula. Generally dropping the player in the shoes of a member of the Belmont clan, Castlevania is a horror-filled series populated by monsters of all kinds. It would almost be scary... if the Belmonts weren't so very good at their jobs.
Aside from a few minor comic adaptations the Castlevania franchise has focused on two media: Video games and (more recently) animated television. The television shows are reimaginings of several of the video games, and so are included under Release Order, at the bottom of the article. The majority of this page belongs to the games.
Several of the games are not considered canonical, and are only included under Release Order. Three of the games - the Lord of Shadows trilogy - belong to a chronology of their own, and have their own list.
In-Universe Chronological Order (video games)
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (2003, video game)
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989, video game)
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (2005, video game)
- Castlevania: The Adventure iterations:
- Castlevania: The Adventure (1989, video game)
- Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (2009, video game - remake)
- Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge (1991, video game)
- Castlevania iterations:
- Castlevania (1986, video game)
- Vampire Killer (1986, video game)
- Super Castlevania IV (1991, video game - remake)
- Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987, video game)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (2002, video game)
- Rondo of Blood iterations:
- Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993, video game)
- Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (2007, video game)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, video game)
- Castlevania: Order of Eccelsia (2008, video game)
- Castlevania: Bloodlines (1994, video game)
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (2006, video game)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003, video game)
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005, video game)
In-Universe Chronological Order (video games - Lords of Shadow)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010, video game)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (2013, video game)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014, video game)
Release Order (video games)
- Castlevania (1986, video game)
- Vampire Killer (1986, video game)
- Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987, video game)
- Haunted Castle (1988, arcade game)
- Castlevania: The Adventure (1989, video game)
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989, video game)
- Kid Dracula (1990, video game - parody)
- Castlevania: Belmont's Revenge (1991, video game)
- Super Castlevania IV (1991, video game - remake)
- Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (1993, video game)
- Kid Dracula (1993, video game - parody)
- Castlevania: Bloodlines (1994, video game)
- Castlevania: Dracula X (1995, video game)
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, video game)
- Castlevania Legends (1997, video game)
- Castlevania (1999, video game)
- Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (1999, video game - expanded rerelease)
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (2001, video game)
- Castlevania Chronicles (2001, video game - remake)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (2002, video game)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (2003, video game)
- Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (2003, video game)
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (2005, video game)
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (2005, video game)
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (2006, video game)
- Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (2007, video game)
- Castlevania: Order of Eccelsia (2008, video game)
- Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (2009, video game - remake)
- Castlevania: The Arcade (2009, arcade game)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010, video game)
- Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (2010, video game)
- Castlevania Judgment (2008, video game)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (2013, video game)
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014, video game)
- Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls (2019, video game)