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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
67 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Beating the game caused an browser window to open with an epic account half-way filled in, this is virus behavior, the game itself is fun a Castlevania adventure and I recommend playing via other means than steam only…”
“Awesome successor to Castlevania. Though experience soured by terrible translation, mid voice acting and Epic Games Store launcher demanding you to login or register in order to see the game's finale - legit the most…”
“A truly great game. Though I worry there will be no more quite like this one. Best sampled when you're already familiar with Castlevania series. Especially Symphony of the Night and Order of Ecclesia. Unrelated: For…”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“We need more games like Bloodstained: ROTN. This is the pinnacle of the Metroidvania games. Great controls, nice colorful graphics, awesome sound, and just great game design. 9/10 game for me.”
“O que dizer dessa obra de arte feita com todo amor pelo titio Koji que ja não foi dito por outros reviews né? mas vamos lá, esse jogo é incrível e me custou umas horinhas pra platinar (o game base antes da DLC vir e me…”
“Really fun! Good environments, interesting skills, and strong sense of progression.”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“We need more games like Bloodstained: ROTN. This is the pinnacle of the Metroidvania games. Great controls, nice colorful graphics, awesome sound, and just great game design. 9/10 game for me.”
“Very competent metroidvania. As its name implies, it's a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night made by the same director. It shows: the game not only adheres faithfully to the formula established by…”
“O que dizer dessa obra de arte feita com todo amor pelo titio Koji que ja não foi dito por outros reviews né? mas vamos lá, esse jogo é incrível e me custou umas horinhas pra platinar (o game base antes da DLC vir e me…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Very competent metroidvania. As its name implies, it's a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night made by the same director. It shows: the game not only adheres faithfully to the formula established by…”
“So far i really enjoy the gameplay, voice acting is meh (points for Alucard VA) the skill system and Familiars all being upgradable means you favorite skills can be grinded to be useful longer not fall off with new…”
“It's equal parts rough, beautiful, ugly, janky and precise. It pays a massive tribute, homage and celebration to two games: "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" and "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow" and I'm 100% here for it…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Sitting down to fully finish this game, all I can say is this game is extremely polished and big. so much to do, and fun things to discover. though some features were weird to use like invert. But the bosses and…”
“It's equal parts rough, beautiful, ugly, janky and precise. It pays a massive tribute, homage and celebration to two games: "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night" and "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow" and I'm 100% here for it…”
“Really amazing metrovania! Loads of levels, weapons, abilities, secrets. Good controls (controller recommended) Fun levels without being too challenging. Loads of fighting styles and weapons with unique abilities. The…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“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…”
“👎 Updated to require logging in with Epic, doesn't currently mention that on the store page anywhere.”
“Beating the game caused an browser window to open with an epic account half-way filled in, this is virus behavior, the game itself is fun a Castlevania adventure and I recommend playing via other means than steam only…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Honestly, just over-long, bloated and a waste of time. Way too many different things at once. The design amounts to the gameplay loop being like: grind for one item, to get another item, to craft together with another…”
“7/10 Fun game but quite short unless you want to the the true ending. Only observation I have, the game difficulty is not well balanced, normal is just a joke you literally speedrun the game, and on hard the game almost…”
“Great return of og iga style metroidvania formula Cons: graphics, some side content requiers a lot of rng grind, story and dialogue can be a snooze fest at times. Pros: pretty much everything else”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Tl;dr: A great Metroidvania, with some fantastic new additions to the formula, held back by too much fluff, inconsistent enemy designs and art direction, and a convoluted final act that begins to lose itself. It's still…”
“So far i really enjoy the gameplay, voice acting is meh (points for Alucard VA) the skill system and Familiars all being upgradable means you favorite skills can be grinded to be useful longer not fall off with new…”
“Great return of og iga style metroidvania formula Cons: graphics, some side content requiers a lot of rng grind, story and dialogue can be a snooze fest at times. Pros: pretty much everything else”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Honestly, just over-long, bloated and a waste of time. Way too many different things at once. The design amounts to the gameplay loop being like: grind for one item, to get another item, to craft together with another…”
“7/10 Fun game but quite short unless you want to the the true ending. Only observation I have, the game difficulty is not well balanced, normal is just a joke you literally speedrun the game, and on hard the game almost…”
“Tl;dr: A great Metroidvania, with some fantastic new additions to the formula, held back by too much fluff, inconsistent enemy designs and art direction, and a convoluted final act that begins to lose itself. It's still…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“I had this game with a few hours on it sitting in my steam library for years until finally forcing myself to give it more of a shot and came out thoroughly loving it. Miriam embodying a sort of stained glass theme in…”
“Tl;dr: A great Metroidvania, with some fantastic new additions to the formula, held back by too much fluff, inconsistent enemy designs and art direction, and a convoluted final act that begins to lose itself. It's still…”
“Great return of og iga style metroidvania formula Cons: graphics, some side content requiers a lot of rng grind, story and dialogue can be a snooze fest at times. Pros: pretty much everything else”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“I loved every minute of this game. My only gripe is after spending about 40 hours on my first playthrough I finally beat the final boss and immediately received an Epic Games Pop Up that covered up the final cut scene. I don't know why Epic Games thought this was a good idea. I…”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played“dawn of sorrow if the main character wasn't annoying, for better and for worse, since i don't like either of the sorrow games. this feels like if dawn of sorrow had more time to cook, basically. it has aspects of other igavania games mixed in too, the motion input moves make…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“Forced Epic crap is not disclosed on Steam page and was added years after release.”
— a player, Steam review · 48 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:33 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · RPG · Female Protagonist · Action · Adventure · Anime · Side Scroller · 2.5D · Platformer · Great Soundtrack · Dark Fantasy · Gothic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Languages | Japanese * , English * , French, Italian, German, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 57 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://playbloodstained.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: AMD FX-4350 / Intel Core i5-4460 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 280X / GeForce GTX 760 Storage: 10 GB available space