Play Bram Stoker's Dracula on sega Online

Swing a silver dagger through candlelit halls, dodging wolves and leaping over bottomless pits—this is Dracula’s castle at its most unforgiving. By the end, you’re cleaving through hordes with a sword that somehow makes all the cheap deaths worth it.

Developer: Psygnosis

Genre: Action

Released: 1993

File size: 597 bytes

Game Overview

If you grew up with a Sega Genesis, you probably remember Bram Stoker's Dracula—that moody, gothic side-scroller where you hack through waves of bats, wolves, and undead minions as Jonathan Harker. It’s one of those movie tie-ins that actually got the atmosphere right, with eerie music and dark, detailed backgrounds that make you feel like you’re stumbling through Dracula’s castle.

You start off weak, barely able to fend off a single skeleton, but by the time you reach London, you’re slashing through enemies with a sword that feels way too satisfying for a licensed game. The platforming can be a little stiff (this is the early '90s), but the bosses—especially Dracula himself—are memorably brutal. Just don’t expect the plot to make much sense unless you’ve seen the movie.

It’s not the deepest game, but for a quick horror-themed hack-and-slash, it holds up better than most of its kind.