Over the Moon Games announced that Vampire Hunter: Nightrise, a first-person vampire hunt through a sprawling gothic castle, will launch on Steam on July 14, 2026 for $14.99. A demo is available now.
Pitched as “Castlevania meets Tunic,” Nightrise drops the player into a vampire’s castle with a single goal: reach him before nightfall. The catch is that the castle itself is the real opponent. Rotating fireplaces, moving bookshelves, watching portraits, and hidden passages are open from the start, but they only give way once the player understands how the place works. There are no keys, only knowledge.
Combat is built around a stake launcher that pins enemies to walls, fires stakes through flame to ignite them, and turns the castle’s own furniture into ammunition. Underneath it all, the player’s faith works as a literal resource that the castle constantly tempts them to trade away for power, quietly shaping how the story ends.
It is a complete, single-sitting experience of about three hours, with no filler and no open-world bloat, and it leans on atmosphere and dread rather than gore.
“In Nightrise, almost everything is open to you from the very beginning, if you know how to reach it,” said John Warner of Over the Moon Games. “There is something deeply rewarding about learning to overcome an obstacle instead of just finding a key. It creates a real sense of power and wonder. We took huge inspiration from Tunic in that respect, and from Outer Wilds.”