{"id":87688,"date":"2026-08-17T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87688"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:37:40","slug":"an-exclusive-castlevania-game-is-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87688","title":{"rendered":"An Exclusive Castlevania Game Is Shutting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Apple Arcade-exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/castlevania-grimoire-of-souls\/\">Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls<\/a> won&#8217;t be playable for much longer, developer Konami has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Konami\/status\/2089398860447695213?s=20\">social media<\/a> and the game&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.konami.com\/games\/castlevania\/gos\/global\/en\/\">website<\/a>, Konami confirmed Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will be removed from Apple&#8217;s gaming subscription service on August 20. Despite Konami stating the game has &#8220;continued to be supported by many players,&#8221; it will also shut down permanently and no longer be playable on September 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We would like to express our gratitude to all of our players for their enthusiastic support throughout the years,&#8221; Konami said. &#8220;The entire development and operations team sincerely thanks you for being part of this journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/Konami\/status\/2089398860447695213?s=20  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Konami didn&#8217;t give any real reason for the decision. Originally released in 2019, Grimoire of Souls was removed from mobile storefronts and then re-released as an Apple Arcade exclusive in September 2021 with a number of improvements, including the removal of various microtransactions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of its release, Grimoire of Souls was the first new Castlevania game since 2014&#8217;s Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/castlevania-grimoire-of-souls-story-concludes-with-latest-update\/1100-6503449\/\">story concluded<\/a> back in 2022 with an update that provided new revelations related to Dracula&#8217;s defeat in 1990&#8217;s Castlevania 3: Dracula&#8217;s Curse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple Arcade-exclusive Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls won&#8217;t be playable for much longer, developer Konami has announced. In a post on social media and the game&#8217;s official website, Konami confirmed Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will be removed from Apple&#8217;s gaming subscription service on August 20. Despite Konami stating the game has &#8220;continued to be supported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":87690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87691,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87688\/revisions\/87691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}