Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Achievements and Trophies List (All 29)

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has 29 achievements on Steam and Xbox, where they are worth 1,000 Gamerscore. On PlayStation 5 the same 29 objectives appear as trophies with matching names, plus a platinum called The legendary vampire hunter for collecting all the others. That makes 30 trophies: 1 Platinum, 5 Gold, 10 Silver and 14 Bronze. Seventeen are hidden and show only their title until you earn them. The other 12 show their full description from the start.

Quick answer: Beat all twelve bosses, see all three endings, collect every weapon, heart fragment, clue, Mirror of Life and Gift, reach 100% Progress, and finish one run in under 4 hours with Custom Mode off.

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse achievement and trophy list

Achievements are awarded as soon as their requirements are fulfilled. On PS5, the “Trophy earned!” notification confirms it. Hidden achievements cover boss defeats, all three endings, the Judge’s verdict, and True Belmont.

Main menu with Resume, Saves, Settings, Credits and Quit buttons before a burning gothic cathedral, a lone hero, a statue and a gargoyle. — The Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse main menu offers Resume, Saves, Settings, Credits and Quit over a burning gothic cathedral and city.

Achievement	In-game description	Hidden
Blood Tells	Defeat the Fallen	Yes
Flammable or inflammable?	Defeat the Warrior	Yes
Snakes speared in the ruins	Defeat the Prophetess	Yes
The King is dead, long live the King	Survive the Judge’s verdict	Yes
Talos Aversion	Defeat the Builder	Yes
Blood for Blood	Defeat the Occultist	Yes
Death… killed?	Defeat the Shadow	Yes
All that glitters is not gold.	Defeat the Miser	Yes
I am Arthur, King of the Britons	Defeat the Brittle King	Yes
Succubued to her wounds…	Defeat the Temptress	Yes
Shadow Work	Defeat the Self	Yes
Finish Hector’s work	Defeat the Zealot	Yes
Die monster! You don’t belong in this world!	Defeat Dracula	Yes
Belmont’s fall	Get the bad ending	Yes
The hunt goes on	Get the normal ending	Yes
Curse lifted	Get the true ending	Yes
True Belmont	Kill with the Fallen’s spell, whip equipped	Yes
Pick a card, any card	Obtain every blessing associated with each arcana	No
Armed to the Fangs	Find every weapon	No
Jack of All Trades	Collect at least one weapon from each weapon family	No
Stuff of Legends	Acquire a legendary armament	No
Always the same roof	What reason would Dracula have to conceal things there?	No
Perfectionist Hunter	Complete the game to 100%	No
Dialog Skipper	Beat the game within a four-hour window	No
Collector	Locate all upgrades for health and mana	No
Lamplighter	Destroy 666 candles	No
The Greatest Detective	Find every clues	No
Narcissus	Switch on each mirror of life	No
Transylvanian Express	Cover 19.86km	No

Boss achievements and where each fight happens

Twelve achievements pop when a boss falls. The in-game descriptions use each boss’s Arcana title, so the table pairs every title with the boss behind it. Most of these come naturally on the main route. Four of them have conditions that are easy to miss, and they are covered below the table.

Achievement	Boss (Arcana)	District	Area
Blood Tells	Leon (The Fallen)	Gate to the Catacombs	Paris Streets
Flammable or inflammable?	Joan (The Warrior)	Roof of the Tower	Paris Streets
Snakes speared in the ruins	Medusa (The Prophetess)	Ossuary of the Innocents	Holy Innocents’ Cemetery
Talos Aversion	Talos (The Builder)	Throne of the Builder	Clock Tower
Blood for Blood	Carmilla (The Occultist)	Observatory	Library
All that glitters is not gold.	Mammon (The Miser)	Mammon’s Lair	Catacombs of Paris
Death… killed?	Death (The Shadow)	Choir	Notre-Dame
Succubued to her wounds…	Succubus (The Temptress)	Belmont Manor	Hall of Mirrors
Finish Hector’s work	Isaac (The Zealot)	Heart of the Clock	Clock Tower
I am Arthur, King of the Britons	Arthur (The Brittle King)	Chapel	Notre-Dame
Shadow Work	Doppelganger (The Self)	Gallery of the Four Virtues	Notre-Dame
Die monster! You don’t belong in this world!	Dracula	Court of the Night	Master’s Quarters

Joan and Death each appear in more than one place. Flammable or inflammable? is earned in your first fight with Joan on the Roof of the Tower. Death… killed? is earned when Death falls at Notre-Dame, not in his earlier appearance in the Catacombs of Paris. Blood for Blood unlocks on the kill itself, before you absorb The Occultist card.

I am Arthur, King of the Britons

Arthur is an optional boss and does not appear unless you trigger him. Equip Fist of Talos, the spell from The Builder. Then go back to the sword at the Chapel altar in Notre-Dame and keep pressing INTERACT (R1 on PS5, RB on Xbox, E on PC) until a cutscene plays. The fight starts after that. Arthur has 11,000 health and resists most crowd control, including bleed and burn. Beating him drops Excalibur and the Stained-Glass Shield spell.

Heroine faces a dark armored knight raising a sword on a burning bridge; Joan's portrait and partial dialogue box shown. — Joan raises her sword on a burning bridge before Notre-Dame as her dialogue about the Belmont family begins to appear.

Finish Hector’s work

You meet Isaac more than once. The earlier battle on the bridge is an illusion and does not count. The achievement only registers for the later fight in the Heart of the Clock in the Clock Tower. That fight runs in five phases and rewards Chronomantic Dive.

All that glitters is not gold.

Mammon’s Lair branches away from the main route in the Catacombs of Paris. Reach the Circle of Greed, then pass through its eye door into the arena. Mammon has 8,000 health and drops Wheel of Chaos.

Shadow Work

Rose’s shadow, the Doppelganger, shows up as “???” in the boss bar. It is only available after you complete the four virtue trials. You then enter the Gallery of the Four Virtues from the Notre-Dame altar. Winning gives you The Self Arcana, its Absolution spell and a new skin for Rose. You need Absolution for the true ending, so this fight also comes before Curse lifted.

Rose stands on a stone rampart facing a kneeling armored Joan before a burning cathedral, with Rose's dialogue box below. — Rose speaks with Joan on a rampart before a burning Notre-Dame: “Joan of Arc? The warrior who stood against the English? But you were taken prisoner and burned at”

Die monster! You don’t belong in this world!

The Dracula fight begins in the Court of the Night in the Master’s Quarters. It continues on the Castle Rooftops against his second, winged form. The achievement pops when that second form is defeated, and the same kill decides which ending you get.

Ending achievements: Belmont’s fall, The hunt goes on and Curse lifted

The three endings depend on two things: whether you have a specific spell equipped, and what you do at one clock.

Achievement	Ending	Trigger
Belmont’s fall	Bad	Use the Clock Tower Bridge clock without Soul Harvest
The hunt goes on	Normal	Beat Dracula without Absolution equipped
Curse lifted	True	Beat Dracula with Absolution equipped

Belmont’s fall usually happens the first time you reach the glowing clock on the Clock Tower Bridge. Rose normally gets there before she has Soul Harvest, the spell you get from Death, so the clock springs Death’s trap. The credits roll and the achievement pops. Choose Resume on the title screen to keep playing. If Soul Harvest is equipped, the clock takes you on toward Isaac instead.

The hunt goes on only needs Dracula’s second form beaten without Absolution in your loadout. For Curse lifted, prepare the following in order.

Go to the Gallery of the Four Virtues in Notre-Dame and ring the four Bells of Virtue. Each bell’s window only opens if you have the matching card’s spell equipped. The pairings are listed in the table below.

Bell of Virtue	Spell to equip
Courage	Infernal Pyre
Temperance	Freezing Path
Justice	Chains of Justice
Prudence	Mirror Walk

Go back to the altar and defeat your shadow. This also unlocks Shadow Work and gives you The Self, which carries the Absolution spell.

Equip Absolution and travel to the Court of the Night. Keep it equipped through both phases of the Dracula fight.

Defeat Dracula’s winged form on the Castle Rooftops. The true ending plays and Curse lifted unlocks.

The King is dead, long live the King

This achievement advances through the story rather than by killing anything. In Paris Streets, go to the Palace of Justice and balance the Scales of Justice beside the tree. Saint Louis awakens, the achievement unlocks, and he gives you The Judge Arcana. That card contains Chains of Justice, the spell used for the Justice bell. Saint Louis also gives you Valmanway.

Tarot menu showing The Fallen card with a clue list and purple clue text about hiding a lever near the barrels. — The Tarot menu shows The Fallen card, found in Paris Streets, with the clue “A Lever for the Well” selected.

Dialog Skipper

Beat Dracula’s second form while the play time on the System tab still shows under 4 hours. Plan this as a separate speedrun, because a full collection run will take much longer.

System menu tab with Settings, Tutorials, Last Save and Main Menu options beside a castle illustration and progress 17.1 percent. — The System tab of the pause menu lists Settings, Tutorials, Last Save and Main Menu, with play time and Progress 17.1%.

Weapon achievements: Jack of All Trades, Stuff of Legends and Armed to the Fangs

There are 28 weapons, split evenly across seven families with four weapons each. The families are:

Whips
One-handed swords
Two-handed swords
Paired blades
Sword and shield
Spears
Fists

Jack of All Trades needs one weapon from every family; the Steam text reads “Find a weapon of each family in the game”. It unlocks the moment Rose picks up a weapon from the last family she is missing. Fists are an easy family to leave for last: the Cestus sits in a chest in the Sewer Reservoir in Paris Streets, and with the other six families already owned, the achievement pops over its weapon card. If two-handed swords are the gap, the Claymore is in a chest in The Way of the Fist in the Clock Tower.

The Cestus weapon card with the Steam notice Jack of All Trades, Find a weapon of each family in the game — Picking up the Cestus, the last missing family here (fists), unlocks Jack of All Trades on the spot.

Armed to the Fangs needs all 28. Stuff of Legends pops for any Legendary weapon. Most players get the Vampire Killer whip first, which Trevor Belmont gives Rose in Deacon’s Quarter in Notre-Dame.

Dialogue scene on a burning rampart in Paris; Joan's portrait and a line of accusation appear beside Rose and Joan. — Joan, standing on a burning Paris rampart before Notre-Dame, accuses Rose: “You! You and your unholy family set Paris ablaze!”

War and Famine: the Notre-Dame organ puzzle

War and Famine is a Legendary pair of twin swords with 100 ATK, and you need it for Armed to the Fangs. Solving the organ puzzle also completes a Work of Mercy, which counts toward Pick a card, any card. You can start after defeating Talos, but the final input needs Death defeated first. Each corrupted pipe has a melody sheet, and you can read them in the Tarot menu once found. The sequences are stepped out on the zodiac floor plates in the Great Organ Room.

Melody	Pipe	Plate sequence
Fugue	Bass clef	Sun, Pisces, Gemini, Moon, Capricorn
Concerto	Treble clef	Taurus, Cancer, Sun, Leo, Gemini
Sonata	C-clef	Aries, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Scorpio

In Notre-Dame, read the clue about the corrupted organ pipes. Then head down through the floor into the Great Organ Room in the Notre-Dame Undercrypt.

Step on the plates in the order shown for each of the three melodies. Each correct sequence cleanses its pipe.

After beating Death, go to the Stained Glass Gallery and look at the zodiac windows. The number of lit candles under each window gives its position in the sequence. One candle means first, two candles means second, and so on.

In the Great Organ Room, step on Gemini, Scorpio, Aquarius, Virgo, Sagittarius, and finally Aries. A green flash appears, followed by “Work of Mercy completed”.

Go left up the stairs and read the plaque on the wall. The stairs open into a trapdoor.

Drop into the hidden crypt and run right to the altar. Open the container there to get War and Famine.

Collectible achievements: hearts, mirrors, clues and Arcana blessings

Achievement	What to collect	Total
Collector	Brave and Wise Heart Fragments	24 + 24
Narcissus	Mirrors of Life activated	34
The Greatest Detective	Arcana clues	40
Pick a card, any card	Gifts learned	42

Collector

Brave Heart Fragments raise health and Wise Heart Fragments raise mana. Four fragments make one upgrade, so you are after 6 health and 6 mana upgrades. Each of the 8 main areas holds exactly 3 Brave and 3 Wise fragments. The Equipment screen shows six heart slots for each bar from the start, so you can count the gaps you still need to fill.

Narcissus

Mirrors of Life serve as save stations and restore your health and potions. Face one and press the interact prompt to activate it. You need to activate all 34. Holy Innocents’ Cemetery contains 4, the Catacombs of Paris has 2, and the Hall of Mirrors holds 5.

Rose facing an icy central doorway with the Interact E prompt shown above her — The interact prompt appearing as Rose steps up to a save point.

The Greatest Detective

Clues come from spirits, hooded statues, notes and paintings. Each one is filed on the clue pages of the Tarot menu under the Arcana it belongs to. In a full run, the last clue is usually “Kneeling is the Way” in the Hall of Mirrors.

Pick a card, any card

There are 16 Arcana cards: The Cursed, which Rose starts with, and 15 that you collect. Each collected card has Works of Mercy, which are small tasks tied to that card. Every finished Work gives one Blessing, and each Blessing unlocks one Gift. The achievement pops when all 42 Gifts across the 15 collected cards are learned. The Cursed does not count toward it, and its second Work only shows as “???”.

You manage cards from the Arcanas tab of the Equipment screen, next to the Armoury and relic slots. This is also where you swap in the spells needed for the virtue bells and the true ending.

Equipment screen with the Arcanas tab open and the left Arcana card highlighted — The Arcanas tab on the Equipment screen, with an Arcana card selected.

The Brittle King, card 13, shows what these tasks look like. Its spell is Stained-Glass Shield, and its three Works of Mercy are:

Survive an attack that would have killed you by absorbing it with Arthur’s spell.
Kill 25 Haunted Armor.
Kill 3 enemies with one attack.

Counter and secret achievements

Transylvanian Express and Lamplighter

Both of these track totals across your whole save. Transylvanian Express counts distance travelled and usually pops around the Sewer Reservoir in Paris Streets, roughly an hour and a half into a normal run.

Dark map screen of Paris Streets Sewer Reservoir showing purple explored rooms, a skull icon, a save shrine and marker controls. — The Map tab shows the Sewer Reservoir area of Paris Streets, with explored rooms and a marker allowance of 0/50 remaining markers.

Lamplighter counts every candle you break. The game has 1,538 candles, so 666 is a little under half. If you break candles as you go, it tends to pop past the midpoint, around Notre-Dame’s Chapel of Patience. The Catacombs of Paris have 212 candles and Holy Innocents’ Cemetery has 206, while the Hall of Mirrors has only 68.

True Belmont

Leon teaches the Fallen’s Holy Cross spell. Equip any whip, then attack an ordinary enemy with both the whip and Holy Cross and kill it. Since it’s unclear which hit must deliver the final blow, keep using both on the same target until it dies. This works in a regular fight—for example, at Stairway to Hell within the Catacombs of Paris.

Tarot card The Fallen beside a description panel for the Holy Cross spell and a Hold to equip prompt. — The Fallen card’s spell details show Holy Cross, which throws a corrupted cross that returns to Rose, with a Hold to equip prompt.

Always the same roof

The riddle refers to a hidden ceiling area in the Sanctuary of Solitude in the Master’s Quarters. This is the last room before the Dracula fight, just past the Mirror of Life. Use the grapple points and whip rings to climb onto the alcoves above the doors and up to the upper balconies. From there, wall jumps and the Astral Whip get you into the secret space at the top of the room. The achievement pops when you enter it, and a chest inside holds the Gloomstone relic.

Perfectionist Hunter: what counts toward 100% completion

Perfectionist Hunter reads the Progress percentage shown under your play time on the System tab of the pause menu. About three quarters of that total comes from revealing the map, so visiting every room matters more than any one collectible. These are the pieces that count:

Map rooms revealed: 1,306
Experience statues: 147
Items picked up: 115 (40 relics, 39 clues, 25 weapons, 5 movement skills, 6 key items)
Background doors found: 70
Brave and Wise Heart Fragments: 24 each
ATK UP and DEF UP books: 14 each
Area exits: 22, Arcana absorbed: 15, Story steps: 5, Ferryman’s Wharfs: 5, the four virtues: 4

Secret areas by themselves, Mirrors of Life, breakable walls, candles, and enemy kills don’t count. The map’s “0/50 Remaining Markers” line refers only to the map markers you can still place; it doesn’t indicate completion.

Dark gothic map screen of Paris Streets, Ruined Market, with explored rooms outlined and a gold player marker. — The Map tab shows the Paris Streets area, Ruined Market, with explored rooms outlined and 0/50 Remaining Markers.

Area	Things counted
Paris Streets	319
Holy Innocents’ Cemetery	176
Catacombs of Paris	211
Notre-Dame	235
Main Hall	267
Library	139
Clock Tower	236
Hall of Mirrors	158
Master’s Quarters	24

Check each area’s completion percentage to spot which one is incomplete. Map reveal accounts for most of each total, so looking for rooms you have not visited there is usually the quickest fix.

Custom Mode and achievements

Custom Mode does not block every achievement. Blood Tells still unlocked against The Fallen with Prevent death on and damage dealt raised. However, the Custom Mode menu warns that some achievements become unobtainable while it is enabled, and it does not say which ones. Turn Custom Mode off before any boss, ending or challenge you still need, especially the Dialog Skipper run, so you don’t have to repeat it.

Large pale-haired monster looms over an orange-braided heroine in a blue dress, with a dialogue box labeled The Fallen. — The Fallen, a hulking white-haired figure with red claws, confronts the heroine in a skull-lined green chamber before the boss fight.