Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is a Metroidvania, and that genre has a release history worth understanding before you read a date on a page like this. The defining characteristic is that the genre is almost never finished at launch. The map opens, the game is completed, and then the remaining areas unlock through updates over the following year or more.

This means a countdown here is very unlikely to correspond to the moment the game becomes fully playable. It corresponds to the moment the initial slice unlocks, with the rest of the content arriving later. Players who buy on the strength of the launch date and finish what is available in week one are seeing a fraction of the game.

Belmont's Curse is tracked here on Steam. PC versions of this genre traditionally arrive after the console versions, so if you are on console you are likely looking at a later date than the one shown, and the update cadence will continue to differ between platforms as areas unlock.

The DLC structure matters too. In Metroidvania, the base game plus its expansions usually equals the complete experience, and a launch purchase on its own can be a deliberately incomplete one. Knowing whether a given update is base-game or expansion changes whether you need to buy anything to get it.

What to take from a date here: treat it as the beginning of the game's life rather than its completion. The interesting question for planning purposes is not "when does it release" but "when is it finished", and the second date is typically much later and much less precisely published.