| Edition | Price | What you get | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (digital) | $29.99 / £24.98 / €29.99 | The game. Pre-orders add the Alucard Style Costume. | PS5, Xbox Series X|S + Xbox PC, Steam, Switch |
| Midnight Edition (digital) | $39.99 / £34.99 / €39.99 | The game + Digital Sound & Art Gallery (71 tracks) + Trevor Style Costume + Sypha Style Costume + Family’s Grace relic. Pre-orders add the Alucard Style Costume. | PS5, Xbox, Steam — on Switch the extras are separate DLC |
| Physical Midnight Edition | Retailer price | The Midnight contents on disc/cartridge; select EMEA retailers add a SteelBook and a Rose Belmont tarot card by Katsuya Terada | Select retailers |
The Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse release date is Thursday 15 October 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC, Steam and Nintendo Switch, and the PlayStation Store stamps the unlock at 04:00 UTC — the evening of 14 October in the Americas. It costs $29.99, or $39.99 for the Midnight Edition, and every pre-order gets an Alucard Style Costume. You can try the opening chapter for free from 1 October and carry the save into the full game.
This is a budget-priced game, which changes the usual pre-order maths: a $30 purchase fits inside a single PlayStation Store gift card, Xbox gift card or Steam Wallet code, and the $40 Midnight Edition is one mid-size top-up. Below is every date, price and spec we could verify on Konami’s own announcement and the four storefronts, and the one question — Game Pass — that nobody official has answered yet.
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse release date and unlock time
Konami announced the date in June 2026, when pre-orders opened, and the Switch version — originally “to be announced at a later time” — has since been confirmed for the same day. When we opened the US PlayStation Store listing on 24 September, the product header read 10/15/2026 06:00 AM GMT+2, which is 04:00 UTC. Steam’s page says “Coming Oct 15, 2026”, but when we asked Steam’s own store API for US data it returned 14 October — which is exactly what a 04:00 UTC unlock looks like from the Pacific time zone. Xbox and Nintendo print the date without a time.
Unlock time in your time zone
| Where | Local time | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles (PDT) | 21:00 | Wed 14 Oct |
| New York (EDT) | 00:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
| London (BST) | 05:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
| Paris / Berlin / Warsaw (CEST) | 06:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
| Dubai (GST) | 08:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
| New Delhi (IST) | 09:30 | Thu 15 Oct |
| Tokyo (JST) | 13:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
| Sydney (AEDT) | 15:00 | Thu 15 Oct |
The free demo on 1 October
A free demo containing the game’s opening chapter arrives on 1 October 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC, as RPG Site reported from Konami’s announcement. It runs at 60 fps on PS5, Xbox and PC and 30 fps on Switch, and your progress carries into the full release — provided you play both on the same platform and account, keep the demo save on the system, and update the full game to its latest patch before you load it.
With the full game at $29.99, the demo is the real decision point. Two weeks separate the two dates, which is enough time to finish the chapter, decide whether the whip-swinging clicks for you, and then pre-order before launch if it does.
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse price and Midnight Edition
What the extra $10 buys
Almost everything in the Midnight Edition is cosmetic or a keepsake: two costumes that dress Rose as her parents, and a sound-and-art gallery with 71 tracks from the game. The one gameplay item is Family’s Grace, a relic — and relics in this game trigger offensive and defensive effects, so it is the only part of the upgrade that touches play. Konami has not said how strong it is. If you want the soundtrack, $10 is a fair price for it; if you do not, the Standard Edition loses you nothing you need to finish the game.
The pre-order bonus: Alucard Style Costume
Every edition on every platform gets the Alucard Style Costume for a pre-order or an early purchase. The PlayStation Store lists it as “[Pre-order Bonus] Alucard Style Costume”, and the Xbox and Nintendo listings name the same item. Konami’s wording — “pre-ordering or early purchasing” — suggests buying in the first days after launch may still qualify, but no storefront gives an end date, so if the costume matters to you, pre-ordering is the only safe route.
The physical Midnight Edition
The boxed version is the Midnight Edition only, with the same digital extras inside. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, select retailers add an exclusive SteelBook and a premium tarot card of Rose Belmont illustrated by Katsuya Terada. Konami did not publish a physical price, so it varies by shop.
Is Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse on Game Pass?
Not officially. On 30 August 2026, during gamescom, a reel on the official Xbox Game Pass Instagram account showed Belmont’s Curse among games coming to the service. The video was deleted shortly afterwards, and neither Microsoft nor Konami has confirmed anything since. That leaves two readings: the game was included by mistake, or it is coming to Game Pass and the reveal went out early.
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PC requirements and download size
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 11 | Windows 11 |
| Processor | Intel Core i5-8400 | Intel Core i5-10400 |
| Memory | 16 GB RAM | 16 GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| DirectX | Version 11 | Version 11 |
| Storage | 10 GB | 10 GB |
Two things stand out. The storage is small — 10 GB on PC and 4.2 GB on Switch — so this is not a game you need to clear space for. But both tiers list Windows 11 and 16 GB of RAM, which is a steep floor for a 2D game; we would expect it to run on Windows 10 and 8 GB machines in practice, but that is not what Konami promises, so check your system before you buy on Steam. The game has full controller support, a keyboard-only option, and Steam Family Sharing enabled. Voice acting is in English and Japanese, with text in 11 languages.
Switch and Switch 2
On the Nintendo eShop the game is a single $29.99 Switch release, playable on Switch 2, with the Alucard costume for pre-orders. There is no Midnight Edition bundle on Switch: the extras appear to be split into two DLC items — a Bonus Contents Pack and the Digital Sound & Art Gallery — both dated 15 October, with no prices shown yet. If you are paying with a Nintendo eShop card, remember the demo runs at 30 fps on Switch against 60 fps elsewhere — worth seeing for yourself on 1 October before you choose a platform.
Where it sits in the Castlevania timeline
“Set 23 years after Castlevania Dracula’s Curse — follow Rose Belmont’s journey in an all new 2D Action-Exploration title.”
— Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Steam page, Konami’s store description, read 24 September 2026
Belmont’s Curse is set in Paris in 1499, and its lead is Rose Belmont, daughter of Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades from 1989’s Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. It is a side-scrolling exploration game in the Symphony of the Night mould, developed by Evil Empire with advice from Motion Twin, the studio behind Dead Cells. Bosses include Death, Medusa and Carmilla alongside new ones such as Joan of Arc, and defeated bosses become tarot “Arcana” that give Rose new spells. It was revealed at a PlayStation State of Play in February 2026 and is the first brand-new mainline Castlevania in more than a decade — which is why the demo will matter more than any trailer.
What to play while you wait
We searched our own store on 24 September and do not stock Belmont’s Curse. We do stock several 2D exploration games in the same gothic, whip-and-blade tradition, all delivered as instant digital keys: Blasphemous, whose Spanish-Catholic horror is the closest in tone; its sequel in the Blasphemous 2 Deluxe Edition; the hand-drawn Afterimage; and GRIME, a darker, heavier take on the formula. Any one of them fills the two weeks between the demo and launch.
Another launch in the same stretch is Phantom Blade Zero on 29 October. If you are funding a pre-order with store credit, our guides to redeeming a PlayStation gift card on PS5 and redeeming a Nintendo eShop card cover the common failure cases.
Sources & how we checked this
Every price, date and spec above was read from the publisher or the storefront on 24 September 2026, with each store set to the United States; UK and eurozone prices came from Steam’s store data for those regions. The screenshots were taken the same day. We have not played the game or the demo, which is not out yet — everything about how it plays is Konami’s description or clearly attributed reporting.
- Konami’s release-date and Midnight Edition announcement — platforms, developer credits, edition contents, the Alucard pre-order costume and the EMEA SteelBook and tarot card.
- Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse on Steam — $29.99 / $39.99, UK and EU prices, PC requirements, languages and the store description quoted above.
- PlayStation Store listing — the 04:00 UTC unlock stamp, both editions, the pre-order bonus and the ESRB Teen rating.
- Xbox store listing — prices, Xbox Play Anywhere and the absence of any Game Pass mention.
- Nintendo eShop listing — $29.99, Switch 2 support, the 4.2 GB size and the two DLC items.
- RPG Site on the 1 October demo — platforms, frame rates and save carry-over.
- Wolf’s Gaming Blog on the deleted Game Pass reel — the 30 August video and its removal.
- Wikipedia — setting, characters and announcement history.
How we work is set out in our editorial policy. We will update this page on launch day with the final unlock times and anything that changes between now and then.
Rayyan covers console and PC gaming wallets for Virtwave, with deep specialism in PlayStation Network, Xbox, Razer Gold and Steam. He has been writing about digital gaming commerce since 2020.
