The 10 BEST Castlevania Games 

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Something tells me that the guys at WatchMojo knew about the announcement of the new Castlevania collection before today's Nintendo Direct.

The franchise needs a comeback.

The DS games now available with Castlevania Dominus Collection!!!

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Wow, it took WatchMojo 10 years to make an even worse Castlevania top 10 than last time. I'm actually impressed.

Lament of Innocence was one 3D Castlevania game that was good before Lords of Shadows. It shows how the war between Dracula and the Belmont family first started.

A totally mainstream top. Where is Rondo of Blood, Lament of innocence and Harmony of Dissonance?

Without watching: SOTN #1, Dawn/Aria of Sorrow #2, Rondo #3 Super Castlvania #4

You put "circle of the moon" but not "portrait of ruin"? What? 😑

My dad loved Portrait of Ruin when he was young.

I'm a seasonal kind of guy these days, so I've made it an annual tradition to play the Castlevania games every October. It's just so fitting for that time of year. My favorites in no order are Super Castlevania IV, Belmont's Revenge, Bloodlines, and Symphony of the Night (though I still have yet to beat it lol).

For me it's Order of Ecclesia Best one on the DS

Plus in Symphony of the Night you can play the whole game as Richter Belmont and i believe Maria Renard

While it didn't get a mention, I think Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest gets a bad rep. Konami or someone should remake Simon's Quest since the exploration was really compelling but the clues were nonsense. Anyone else want to see Simon's Quest get remade to modern consoles or is it just me?

Castlevania from Fromsoftware sounds like a good idea

Nice timing with this list, since now the three DS games just got a port collection announcement!

What a DAM sin that Dracula X The Rondo of Blood didnt get mentioned,its amazing!

Curse of Darkness needs to be in the top 10 it's such a great game

I know that Symphony of the Night makes it to number one but there are other Castlevania titles worth playing. Those of the GameBoy Advance era, the Nintendo DS era, the Harmony of Despair and the mobile game Apple exclusive Grimoire of Souls(which is sadly took that wrong decision to obscurity).

Surprised Lament of innocense, or Curse of Darkness were not on here.

Portrait of Ruin was one of my favorites. Dual protagonists, vibrant environments, great music and I like the idea of another powerful vampire lord throwing up his hands and saying 'Screw it, Dracula's failed to conquer humanity like ten times now! I *know* I can do better than him!'. That's the... spirit.

The problem with Castlevania 3 is that it adds too many branches that make it a bit tedious. Granth's route adds almost nothing of value. Alucard's route between levels 5 and 6 adds unnecessary branches. Also, being able to play it solo with Trevor adds challenge, and in level 7 of Alucard's route you almost necessarily have to use Alucard at some points.

I know it's hard to believe, but SoTN has actually been surpassed (a few times) in the last 27 years. Nostalgia is important, but so is progress.

As much as I agree the original Castlevania deserves to be on this list somewhere, I think it’s a little ridiculous do rank something so high based on how good it WAS. It being revolutionary back in the day has no effect on how fun it is to play almost 40 years after its release.

Circle of the Moon, please play it, a well balanced difficulty/controls system, the music and backgrounds are pure pixel bliss

There are no words to describe how much I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE LORDS OF SHADOW TRILOGY!!!!!!

If SOTN isn't number one I will throw my phone out the window.

Harmony of Despair should get an honorable mention. That was and still is addictive!

Rondo of blood man the best one !! Better than those gameboy games!! Music / game play it’s perfect

What a concidence to the reveal of the ds trilogy appearance on modern console

1. Dracula's Curse 2. Symphony 3. Rondo 4. Super Castlevania 5. Dawn of Sorrow 6. Castlevania 7. Ecclesia 8. Simon's Quest (1st I played and love it) 9. Aria 10. Dissonance

Been a Castlevania fan since the 80's with the first game. I've never played Symphony of the Night but it's on my bucket list. I love Castlevania and Metroid so SOTN sounds like a match made in heaven.

All of the Best *Castlevania* Gaming franchises need a Comeback. I Absolutely missed all of these Memorable *Castlevania* Games SO much throughout the years!

A good list! From those that are not mentioned, I personally would've included Curse of Darkness (a very underappreciated 3Dvania with a nice familiar-levelling system, memorable characters and amazing soundtrack), Portrait of Ruin (another DS Castlevania and here we can swap between two playable characters at will) and Rondo of Blood (one of the classic style Castlevanias which I think is way better than the NES ones).

I prefer Aria and Dawn of Sorrow over SOTN, just barely, but I can't complain about SOTN being no1. It's a classic!

Awesome video!👍👍

Anyone remember the pre-order bonuses when Portrait of Ruin came out? They don’t make’em like that anymore.

Castlevania DS Collection please Konami!

Have you lost your God damn mind? Not putting Rondo of Blood on here is absolute madness. It objectively has the best soundtrack in the entire series and also some of the best level design. Yes circle of the moon is good, but is it better than portrait of ruin?

I truly believe Lord of shadows deserves more love. For me, it had a great twist in the end albeit predictable. I just love the story where the hero falls in darkness in the name love.

The release of Dead by Daylight Castlevania Chapter and the announcement/release of Castlevania Dominus collection today… What a wonderful day to have a blessing!

Love the series but apparently I suck being I can never finish any of the games lol I do think Lords of Shadow is vastly underrated and deserves top 5 at the very least..

Most people would include Rondo of Blood on a top ten list. Definitely over Bloodlines and Lords of Shadow. I also enjoyed Castlevania II: Simon's Quest growing up. It's darker than most Castlevania's.

Interesting list..circle of the moon over ecclesia.Imo the peak of castlevania will always be the "metroidvania" style ones.Symphony,aria and the ds ones are S tier.Circle and harmony are A tier.The rest come after.Legendary series.🦹

Perfect Timing!

You forgot Curse of Darkness. It is infinitely underrated and the Netflix anime is based around it and SotN.

Decent list but it was missing Rondo of Blood which is my favorite Classicvania.

I loved Rondo of Blood

Decent list. Lament of Innocence should have been included. First 3D Castlevania to do it right.

Rondo of Blood is prolly the most underrated CV game there is...

Don't now how Bloodlines and Order of Ecclesia are at 7 & 6 while listing Circle of the Moon above them. Could have easily been replaced by one of these not on the list (Portrait of Ruin or Rondo of Blood). At least 1 and 2 are spot on.

I have only played Castlevania: Harmony of Despair and its the reason why I want to play the rest.

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (2006) is also a great Castlevania game

We have a top 10 list without mentioning Rondo of Blood, Portrait of Ruin, and Harmony of Dissonance? Seems more likely the writer played 10 games and said that should be fine.

😮 I am actually shocked Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Dracula X Chronicles) is not on this list, it literally to me is the best in the series. I actually go back and forth which I like best between symphony of the night and rondo of blood but most of the time Rondo of Blood takes that number one spot.

I get that this is someone's elses preferred top 10 list but not even including rondo of blood is a crime.

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The only Castlevania game that I've played is Super Nintendo Castlevania, but about of the newier Castlevania games I really wan't to play Castlevania Shadow of Lords 1 & 2 that I have 1 on PC LOVE Konami and Nintendo's Castlevania games! 🌌🌑🌄🏰🧛🏼‍♂️💀😈❤️‍🔥

11:23 My first Castlevania game. ❤

Okay so im not the only one on the Castlevania hype rn 😂

Who’s a Castlevania fan and want a new game? Me!

This top ten seems wrong, but I agree with number #1. I truly think you forgot one of the best DS castlevania game which is insane, no comment. I'll let someone else say it for me 😂.

There’s this masterpiece called “Rondo of Blood.” Maybe you’ve heard of it??? 🤦‍♂️

No Castlevania 64?? JK. Haha. I would've added part two to my list. It really was way ahead of its time.

I’m the only person who loves harmony of dissonance

I'm currently playing Castlevania Dracula X.

I could never get into Castlevania Symphony of the Night, it was too hard and the difficulty was too much, i did enjoy Bloodstained Ritual of the Night though

I've never played the Castlevania games but I'm interested! Are they hard to play these games and which ones do people suggest I play first? 🤔

No Rondo Of Blood? Hersey!

Nope, big no. Top 10 Castlevania list without Rondo of Blood is not a top 10 Castlevania list.

1 - Lament of Innocence 2 - Aria of Sorrow 3 - Symphony of the Night 4 - Dracula X Chronicles/Rondo of Blood 5 - Castlevania III Dracula's Curse 6 - Order of Ecclesia 7 - Portrait of Ruin 8 - Simon's Quest 9 - Bloodlines 10 - Super Castlevania IV

I like the list but I would definitely remove lords of shadow for curse of darkness and remove order of ecclesia for portrait of ruin

No portrait if ruin? It's one of the best castlevania games, all the DS ones are. Symphony will remain objectively the best since it revolutionized the series while the rest just took the elements from symphony and improved upon them. Anyway Symphony, Super Castlevania 4, the DS titles, Aria of Sorrow, and the original are the best in the series.

14:26 I’m just now learning that Alucard is Dracula backwards 😳

Symphony of the night desrrves to be number 1

Portrait of Ruin 🐐

Lords of Shadows apart from the narrative and characters is not that good. It has blind spots with a fixed camera, horrorifying input delay and the DLC sucks. No Rondo of Blood?! This video is just wrong.

So fun these games are awesome

Aaaawww, I really like Lament of Innocence.

i love alyucard as so much as a character

Whoa, what was that last sword being used in the Aria of Sorrow part?

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castlevania 64 and chronicles are goods too

Rondo of Blood is better than the original Castlevania, as Lament of Innocence is better than Lord's of Shadow.

Castlevania 1999 when?

Or as we say it here in Brazil, Castelo da Vânia - Sanfoneiro da Noite

Still there is no release of Symphony of the Night for PC and other consoles. They should just re-release the PSP version.

Okay why isn’t Castlevania not an Animated Series? 🤨😭😩😫

no rondo of blood, really?!

I know Hungarian isn't your first language but want to try Bathory again lol

Castlevania Lament of the innocence and curse of darkness where?

I love Castlevania as a series, and respect Konami for the masterpieces they (mostly used to) put out. I do however believe Konami are marketing idiots when it comes to this beloved franchise. I will never ever ever understand for the life of me why; as Ive been saying for many years, they didnt choose to port SOtN to PC - I legit believe they dont care about making millions and millions of dollars. And now, with the release of The Dominus Collection; a collection which shouldve come out years ago, imo, for Sony users, they chose to make it PS5 exclusive, while the og CV Collection and Advance Collection are on PS4, there's NO reason they shouldnt have made Dominus Collection cross-console...because its not one console exclusive, its released on multiple platforms! Its like how FF7 Remake was on PS4 and PS5, but FF7 Rebirth was PS5 exclusive. Well, why not make BOTH parts PS5 exclusive? THAT game (both parts) wouldve made SENSE as a PS5 exclusive to help promote the console's on-growing/lacking library. But I digress, thinking companies give a shit about their fans, its an easy mistake to make. As for Konami bringing back CV, again, this is cool and all...but we shouldve got this years ago, like, shortly after the Advance Collection, why they waited on this one is beyond me. I want Konami to bring CV back, in a big way with a brand new title at least. Their next sensible move would be to either re-release Harmony of Despair, or make a Harmony of Despair 2; which I think could work really well, learning from the mistakes of the og. Other than that, CV is a series thats made even better in the hands of fans with games like Migami's excellent The Lecarde Chronicles series, as well as their upcoming Chronicles of the Wolf game, and ofcourse, the amazing looking spoof, The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest, and thats naming an extremely miniscule amount in the vast ocean of CV fan/inspired games. Thats my view (tmv)~

So many classics overlooked here in favor of the entire DS line. Smh watchmojo

SoTN is gonna be number 1 baby (I have only played that and the GBA ones, my opinion is very uninformed)

I had a bad dream about dropping a game boy on the ground and a woman grabbed ot was so vivid😂

Scv4 then sotn at top is the only option.

Ok what happened to Rondo of Blood?

Circle of the Moon is on that list, but Rondo of Blood isn't....seriously? 🤣

Castlevania 3 should be 2nd!