What Castlevania games are there?

1986 to 1990, the NES era: Castlevania (1986), Simon's Quest (1987), and Dracula's Curse (1989), with the Game Boy branches The Adventure (1989) and Belmont's Revenge (1991) alongside, and Super Castlevania IV (1991) retelling the first hunt on the Super NES.

1993 to 1997, the split era: Rondo of Blood (1993, PC Engine CD, Japan only), Bloodlines (1994, Genesis), Dracula X (1995, Super NES, the West's substitute for Rondo), and Symphony of the Night (1997, PlayStation, with the Japan only Saturn port of 1998). The Nintendo 64 pair, Castlevania (1999) and Legacy of Darkness (1999), took the series into 3D.

2001 to 2008, the handheld era: Circle of the Moon (2001), Harmony of Dissonance (2002), and Aria of Sorrow (2003) on Game Boy Advance; Dawn of Sorrow (2005), Portrait of Ruin (2006), and Order of Ecclesia (2008) on Nintendo DS. Console branches ran beside them, Lament of Innocence (2003) and Curse of Darkness (2005) on PlayStation 2 among them. After Ecclesia the classic line paused, and the series rebooted with Lords of Shadow (2010).

One whole game: Rondo of Blood, Japan only from 1993 until the original arrived as an unlockable in 2007 and on Virtual Console in 2010. One whole version: the Saturn Symphony of the Night, with its two extra areas and playable Maria, never released outside Japan at all. And a shelf of smaller keepings this Library documents elsewhere: the VRC6 sound of Dracula's Curse, the two familiars of the Japanese Symphony, and the guides Japan published in threes where America published one.

Everything else on the main line crossed over, sometimes renamed, sometimes censored, as the Bloodlines page records for Europe, but crossed.

Histories stand for the original trilogy, Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and, new in this wave, Rondo of Blood, Bloodlines, Circle of the Moon, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, and Order of Ecclesia. The gallery shows the Japanese and American boxes for eleven games. The question shelf covers the covers compared, the guides compared, the Japanese Symphony's differences, the Saturn Symphony's extra content, the series' inspiration, its art style, its Japanese name, and its fake name credits.

Harmony of Dissonance (2002), the middle Game Boy Advance game, has no history in this Library yet; it is the largest single gap in the handheld run. Super Castlevania IV and the Nintendo 64 pair are likewise uncovered, and the Lords of Shadow era sits outside the Library's scope entirely for now. Sales figures for several games on this page rest on single sources, Famitsu lifetime counts and publisher statements, and are printed on their history pages as such. This census will be revised as the Library grows: that is what a census is for.