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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Developer ArtPlay
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a 2019 action role-playing game developed by indie studio ArtPlay and published by 505 Games. The game is considered a spiritual successor to the Castlevania series, and was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in June 2019, for Amazon Luna in October 2020, for Android and iOS in December 2020, and for Stadia in July 2021. ArtPlay, an independent… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
371 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
160 positive · 90 negative
95% range 58–70%
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| Steam reviews | 160 | 90 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
38,897 of 41,803 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 371 · most liked firstBloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Tokyo Game Show 2026 Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnw...
unlabelledView post →I’d wonder why Those Guys are calling the new Castlevania game woke for having a girl protag when literally the last game in this canon also did as well as Bloodstained which everyone loved but then I remember they don’t really care about the things they are complaining about
unlabelledView post →This was my favorite State of Play in a long time. Not every game appeals to me, but it had more than a few really fun surprise announcements. Final Fantasy Tactics, Marvel Fighting Game, Nioh 3, a new game from Suda51 and a sequel to Bloodstained? Well done PlayStation!
unlabelledView post →Years after release the game now requires a connection to Epics cross-platform services. If you, like me, have blocked Epic entirely, you can not launch the game anymore. Absolutely scammy move from 505 games. It is the first and last game i bought from them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not recommended because the developers have updated the game and added a forced Epig account requirement and the game doesn't work anymore if you don't have one. If they can make these changes to a game I've purchased many years ago then I'm not going to get their new game when it releases as there's no guarantee they're not going to do the same with it. If you really want to play this game get it from GOG, that version of the game is unaffected.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →new bloodstained game announcement means i get one (1) free pass to post my miriam fanart #bloodstained #BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight #BloodstainedTheScarletEngagement
unlabelledView post →Miriam from the game series Bloodstained. I was actually commissioned by a coworker to draw Miriam for them, so uhhh commission page soming soon? 👀 #pixelart #bloodstained #miriam
unlabelledView post →Silly or not it's part of the overall feel. Bloodstained is a pretty good game but it irks me, genuinely, that I'm not chasing after Dracula. Also even beyond that Bravely isn't final fantasy. It's a spinoff, sure, but it's no mainline FF.
unlabelledView post →Thank you, everyone! The response to the Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement news has been overwhelming! We are working diligently to make the game an amazing experience and are excited to share more with you in the coming months. Stay tuned! #TheScarletEngagement #PS5 #Xbox #videogame #steam
unlabelledView post →You can't play this without allowing Epic Games' spyware to run on your system. As somebody who bought the game when it first released in 2019 who is no longer able to play a game they purchased, I can't exactly recommend this title.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like Bloodstained a lot but that game would inarguably just be better if Dracula was in it
unlabelledView post →Silently installing the Epic service and preventing the game from working offline, even though when I bought it never mentioned that an internet connection was required, was shady move. I don't know if everybody is noticing that, but it is become more and more common companies doing this move: changing the game that we already bought to putting features in their favor, without caring if it will ruin the gaming experience for us.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night -Tales of Arise -EA Sports UFC 3 -A Little to the Left -Indivisible -Merge & Blade -Return to Grace
unlabelledView post →Bloodstained game director SHUTARO, who also worked on many games in the Castlevania franchise, died on February 10 from pancreatic cancer at 52.
unlabelledView post →If you think this looks and sounds a lot like a Mystical Ninja/Goemon game... you'd be right, because it's from the same director. Bakeru is to Mystical Ninja as Bloodstained is to Castlevania.
unlabelledView post →- NEW GRASSHOPPER/SUDA51 GAME - BLOODSTAINED SEQUEL - FINAL FANTASY TACTICS REMASTER - NIOH 3 - EVEN MORE FREE ASTRO BOT LEVELS - SEA OF REMNANTS (cool looking pirate RPG) - MARVEL VS CAPCOM MINUS CAPCOM BY ARCSYS there's more too but this is specifically the stuff that made me 👀👀👀
unlabelledView post →505 Games' 2.5D gothic sidescroller "Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement" has been delayed from 2026 to 2027. Development of the game is currently in its final stages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPII... #TheScarletEngagement
unlabelledView post →The only one of those that's ever worked for me is Bloodstained. And even then that's me ignoring all the bad DLC and how ugly the game looked.
unlabelledView post →You randomly update the game, no patch notes, now I can't even launch the game. What is this?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So done for today, some thoughts. SoP was solid, probably the best in a while, lot of Knoebelcore stuff. Romeo is a Dead Man my game of the show. Nioh 3, FFT, Cairn, Bloodstained, SH F, Pragmata, Digimon, Sword of the Sea are all banger. Sceptical when it comes to Yotei and the Marvel game
unlabelledView post →OF COURSE THEY ANNOUNCE A NEW BLOODSTAINED JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT OF THE GAME THEY PULL ME THE FUCK BACK IN
unlabelledView post →Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Tokyo Game Show 2026 Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnw7JmIEHM
unlabelledView post →Bloodstained is a pretty good video game
unlabelledView post →Forced Epic crap is not disclosed on Steam page and was added years after release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I missed Epic's free game yesterday, which was Bloodstained God DAMN IT
unlabelledView post →Shutaro Iida diagnosed with cancer. He's stepping down as Game Director for 'Bloodstained 2'. I hope he gets well soon. www.resetera.com/threads/shut...
unlabelledView post →Not only does it now get stuck trying to download a fresh install with the very first "Busy" red circle of death I've ever seen on Steam, but after having had this game for years and been generally happy and supportive of it ... the game is locked out of me being able to access the thing I paid for and played for years because of Epic / 505 forcing more 3rd party malware nonsense onto an offline singleplayer game. I'll never get to enjoy this game again, F Epic / 505.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Portrait of Miriam. I still love this game so much! I'm replaying it definitely with the new Castlevania game on the horizon and excited for The Scarlet Engagement as well! #Bloodstained #BloodstainedROTN #Miriam
unlabelledView post →👎 The [url=https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/20844919/]2025-12-23 update added Epic Online Services to the game in a way which is poorly implemented, as choosing not to login with it can cause stability issues or problems such as having to wait tens of minutes to even get to the main menu. While some of these problems can be fixed (disabling cross-play fixes the delay in accessing the main menu), and some folks who already have an EOS token left on their machine from another game may not even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night! Happy 6 year anniversary to @playbloodstained.bsky.social !!! 🥰 LOVE this game, and I'm so excited for the next one!!!
unlabelledView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS (No pixelate anymore like the Cursed of the moon series😂, the characters and the enviroment well detailed!) ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't (One of the best metroid and most unique i've ever played! Based on my experience, just in this game we could flip the entire map (with skill) and walk…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Miriam character designs from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_bloodsta...
unlabelledView post →I don't know what to say about this one. Is it the best Metroidvania ever made? Is it worth whatever price you find it at? Am I eagerly awaiting The Scarlet Engagement? The answer to all these questions is "Yes." Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night carries on the legacy of the Castlevania games, and is clearly the culmination of many years of experience and expertise. The mastermind behind it knows what makes the genre work, and blends it all together in a package here that has more content…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Metroidvania game Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement has been announced for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC!
unlabelledView post →Since the latest update it asks me to log into EGS, forcibly getting opened in a browers and the game is stuck in an infinite loading screen even after closing the game. When I reopen it, it starts doing it again without even asking me if I want to enable crossplay with EGS anymore and just opens the login page and stays in the loading screen. Rendering the game literally unplayble. Workaround for now is launching the game directly through the exe in the installation folder. 505 told me they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Added Epic online services in a stealth update right before Christmas that is causing many people to have trouble starting the game. You cannot disable this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requires Epic Online Services to play when game was started up. Did not say on store page. Can't refund because it was in the backlog.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10 Video Games to get to know me - Contra: OG - Bloodstained: Classic 2 - Spidersaurs - Goosebumps: The Game - Adventure Time: SotNK - Silent Hill Downpour - Silent Hill Shattered Memories - Steambot Chronicles - Digital Devil Saga (eng) - Mythri
unlabelledView post →Meet Star Victoria Power (aka Slide20XX), a vibrant force in game music! Their work spans Bloodstained: Dominique’s Curse, Calico, Steven Universe PSAs, and the jazzy chaos of Penny Larceny. She has just launched the Rising Star Patronage Project, a fundraiser for marginalized video game composers.
unlabelledView post →Don't miss today's free Epic Store game! Bloodstained was created by Koji Igarashi, the chief designer behind the Metroid-style Castlevania games. And it lives up to its pedigree with a great castle to explore and fun powers to acquire! If you haven't already played it, you really should!
unlabelledView post →I’m so glad we’re getting a Bloodstained sequel 😭 since Konami forgot how to make a new Castlevania game this is all we have man, and Bloodstained 1 was freakin’ GOOD
unlabelledView post →Imagine if Castlevania wasn't dead/condemned to pachinko hell and we got a new game like Metroid Dread. Sigh. At least we have Bloodstained.
unlabelledView post →This was the second time i bought this game. I had it on an old GOG account. Rebought on here after i lost access to that email/account (my own fault) I bought this awhile back hoping to replay it. THERE IS A NEW UPDATE TODAY THAT FORCES AN EPIC ACCOUNT. DO NOT BUY THIS ON THIS PLATFORM if that matters to you. They give it away free on epic and force steam users to sign up for the pleasure. Sail the seas for this one chaps. Adding DRM to a seven year old singleplayer game wtf.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried my best to like this game. After all, I'm usually fond of metroidvanias, and this one was made by Koji Igarashi, the creator of Symphony of the Night, which is one of the genre's greats. However, as I forced myself through the early parts of Bloodstained, I became more and more certain that Igarashi doesn't understand what made SoTN so beloved in the first place. They tried making the game great because of things that SoTN was great in spite of. First of all, the great-grandfather of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is great so far, but I have to play it outside of Steam by running the .exe directly, so my playtime isn't reflected. Opening the game normally gets me stuck at a prompt telling me to log into my Epic Games account. I don't have one, I'm not making one, the store never said I needed one. If you have an account already, then you'll have a great time. If not, you can still play it and it's still good, but you'll have to make one of Steam's features in it. I can't bring myself to recommend…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please do yourselves a favor and read the patch notes for the most recent update before you go through with it. Epic Online Services has plagued this game and made it unplayable. I used to love this game. After this ridiculous move, I'm not only uninstalling the game, but, I'm avoiding their future installments if this is any indicator of what to expect from them going forward. A sequel will more than likely have this same issue. Don't reward them for this malicious move.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Updated the game to force the Epic game launcher. ♥♥♥♥ off Epic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They literally broke the game to add Epic online on Steam version. You cannot start the game after latest update because it gets stuck on main screen. There is no easy fix for this unless they issue update or go back to remove Epic crap. Absolute negligence and incompetence. We paid for Steam version not Epic. There is no reason for this and no one asked for it. Many users are affected by this problem. Check the community forums.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic offline single-player game. I played all the way through, got all the achievements, bought the new DLC that added more achievements, haven't played that yet and now won't get the opportunity to. Like many Steam users I have Epic Game Store and all of their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blocked on my PC. Now when I try to launch Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night after the Christmas "up"date it hangs indefinitely on the starting screen, apparently trying desperately to contact servers it has no business…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well if it turns out to be a rougelike, at least we got a new Bloodstained game on the way as well.
unlabelledView post →I'm so happy Iga's free from Bloodstained 1 like, incredibly good game, arguably his best but holy shit dude those kickstarter goals had that man imprisoned on one game for years
unlabelledView post →I played the Castlevania Belmont’s Curse demo and boy I sure wish the art style and music were different. The backgrounds are cool and the game feels good enough, but this doesnt feel like a Castlevania game at all. Bloodstained is far more of a Castlevania game than this However imma still buy it
unlabelledView post →Illustrations from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night by artists Ayami Kojima, Yoshitaka Amano, and Mana Ikeda. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_bloodsta...
unlabelledView post →This game is made for a very specific audience. They went too far trying to emulate Simon's Quest, which leads to slow, clunky controls, and lots of backtracking and busywork. Outdated and Archaic design decisions lead to an experience that heavily wastes your time. And some people are gonna see these things as a plus, but I can't recommend it for most.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's game time Hoppers! Get in here! We 100% Bloodstained Curse of the moon TONIGHT! www.twitch.tv #vtuber #vsky
unlabelledView post →Thanks to a wildly overambitious list of Kickstarter stretch goals, Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night only stopped development this year, adding online PvP and PvE multiplayer and an 'expansion' that's a *whole new game* - a Castlevania 2 tribute, specifically store.steampowered.com/app/2380803/...
unlabelledView post →The gameplay for Bloodstained is fun but honestly speaking the character designs and art direction is what kept me from really starting the game seriously for the longest time
unlabelledView post →imagine u have a good offline game and then a fkd up beeing called Epic wants to bruteforce u to play online even though its a singleplayer offline game. shame on the devs for implementing stuff like that. if they release another game i allready know how i will get and play that game. they wont see any money from me anymore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please stop patching required Epic Games accounts and services into old games. The individuals using EGS are society's outcasts and nobody wants to game with them. Thx
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not gonna lie, Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2 still stacks up as probably my favorite traditional Castlevania game, just an excellent game. The original is also extremely good!!
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