How to unlock all characters in Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC

The new Ode to Castlevania DLC for Vampire Survivors has arrived, with over 20 new characters to unlock. There are a lot of specific rules, so we’ve made this guide to help clear the air on what you’ll need to find your favorite Castlevania characters.

The DLC has a massive map, and there are a lot of places to go. As you defeat bosses, you’ll unlock persistent warp points. These will allow you to hop to specific bosses and areas of the map faster in subsequent playthroughs.

There are bosses that certain characters need to kill to unlock more content. We’ve created a map below with the locations of these specific bosses. Make sure to check which character needs to defeat them in the table under that.

We have a list of every character and how to unlock them here. If you’re unsure how to evolve certain weapons, check out our guide here.

After the credits, there’s more to unlock

After using Richter to defeat the “final” boss, a new host of characters will be available to unlock. Without going into spoilers, we’ll help provide the information needed to unlock each of these new characters.

If you’re unsure what to do in order to roll credits, take Richter to Dracula’s throne room at the top of the map to start a special cutscene. Any time you bring Richter here, you’ll get this sequence again. After you play it out, you’ll be sent to the character select screen with a new playable character. Below are the new characters, and how to unlock them, sorted by the order you do so.

Character Name | Unlock Conditions | Details

• Dracula | Beat the Richter Scenario | Unlocked automatically upon unlocking the second round of characters.
• Lisa Tepes | Evolve the Wine Glass | Dracula’s starting weapon, evolves with Tirajisu passive weapon at max level.
• Shaft | Evolve the Luminatio | Lisa Tepes’ starting weapon, evolves with the Crown passive weapon at max level.
• Elizabeth Bartley | Evolve the Umbra | Shaft’s starting weapon, evolves with the Attractorb passive weapon.
• Albus | Evolve Confodere | Shanoa’s default weapon, evolves on fully leveling twice.
• Barlowe | Evolve the Optical Shot | Albus’ default weapon, evolve’s with Karoma’s Mana subweapon.
• Cornell | Evolve the Silver Revolver | Henry’s starter weapon, requires Karoma’s Mana to evolve.
• Carrie Fernandez | Evolve the Custos Glyphs | The three glyphs have to be leveled up together to evolve. Use Cornell if you have him unlocked.
• Isaac | Evolve the Mace | Hector’s starting weapon, evolves with the Hollow Heart passive weapon.
• Saint Germain | Evolve the Trident | Isaac’s starting weapon, evolves with the Duplicator passive weapon.
• Julia Laforeze | Evolve the Globus | Saint Germain’s starting weapon, evolves with The Empty Tome passive weapon.
• Rinaldo Gandolfi | Evolve the Star Flail | Sara Trantoul’s starting weapon, evolves with the Pummarola passive weapon.
• Vincent Dorin | Evolve the Fulgur and Keremet Bubbles | Dropped by Keremet and The Creature respectively, also Yoko and Rinaldo’s starting weapons. Requires the Duplicator Ring and Armor passive weapons, respectively.
• Mina Hakuba | Evolve the Iron Shield | Vincent’s starting weapon, evolves with the Parm Aegis passive weapon.
• Reinhardt Schneider | Find the coffin on the expanded castle map | In the south is a basement area, reachable from the southwest corner of the map. You’ll see the coffin there.
• Sara Trantoul | Evolve the Alchemy Whip | Leon Belmont’s starting weapon, evolves with the Tirajisu passive weapon.
• Maxim | Evolve the Vibhuti Whip | Juste Belmont’s starting weapon, evolves with Candelabrador passive weapon.
• Nathan Graves | Evolve the Sonic Whip | Sonia Belmont’s starting weapon, evolves with Skull O’Maniac passive weapon.
• Quincy Morris | Evolve the Platinum Whip | Richter Belmont’s starting weapon, evolves with the Clover passive weapon.

Pile of Secret characters

While you’re unlocking characters on the new map, you’ll find a new boss room in the northwest of the castle, near the Scorpion teleport. Defeat the Beelzebub boss inside that room to obtain the Pile of Secrets. This item opens up even MORE characters. This won’t even be the last of them.

If you’re having trouble with certain unlock conditions, or you just want them unlocked faster, we’ll also include the codes for each of these unlocks. You can input these from the Secrets button on the main menu.

Character name | Unlock Conditions | Details | Code shortcut

• Young Maria | “Reconnect the youngest hunter with her original guardian, his friends, and their doubles” | Play as Maria. Evolve Peachone and Ebony Wings into Vandeleir, obtain Gemini arcana. | YOURFAULTFORBEINGSOMEAN
• Familiars and Innocent Devils | Play as Julia and get two Familiar weapons | There’s one on the stage, but you’ll need another through random chance on leveling. We recommend using seals to maximize the chance of seeing it. Don’t select the same familiar twice | FRIENDLEVANIA, FORGEMASTERFRIENDS
• Cornel (Blue Crescent Moon) | “Slay the Castle’s denizens under the Blue Crescent Moon to make him a beast” | As Cornell, evolve the three Custus weapons into their final form and get 10,000 kills (estimated.) AZURECROISSANT
• Ferryman | Run on the water in front of Dracula’s Castle | Use the Sonic Dash found in the castle’s basement, or Nathan’s starting weapon. Evolve with the Wings passive weapon. Run around to break the boundary and run on the watery area in the left part of the map. | HEHHEHHEH
• Master Librarian | Buy all his weapons at least once | This can be done over multiple playthroughs. Defeat the Treant boss in the south west corner of the map to unlock him on your map. | ROCKINGCHAIR
• Hammer | Complete a run with 6 fully evolved Coat of Arms weapons | The Coat of Arms weapons are considered “mundane.” That includes Curved Knife, Shuriken, Javelin, Iron Ball, Discus, Silver Revolver, Hand Grenade, and Wine Glass. | WHATWOULDYOUSPENDITON
• Wind | “Remember who he was when he was still alive” | Spoilers for Portrait of Ruin, Wind was Eric Lecarde in life. Get his health down low to trigger his passive three times in one round to unlock Wind. | NOSPOILERS
• Jonathan and Charlotte, Stella and Loretta | Defeat Stella and Loretta with Sanctuary | Evolve the white book Refectio with a fully leveled Clover subweapon. Use the spell to defeat the bosses in the Clocktower, Stella and Loretta. This unlocks all variants of these dual characters, including the stand-alone Loretta and Stella. | Codes for the stand-alone sisters: TWINNADO, COOLTWIN
• Brauner | “Drain the Crimson Paint from his most lively works” | Use the Blood Astronomia arcana, and acquire associated weapons. At around the 24 minute mark, be in the big “X” shaped halls of the Gallery section. Kill the Painting enemies using the red circles from Blood Astronomia. | EVERYONESACRITIC
• Soliel Belmont | Defeat Soleil with Sanctuary equipped | Evolve Refectio into Sanctuary with the max level Clover passive weapon. Find Soliel’s boss fight west from the Parm pick-up and The Creature boss. | PRODIGALSON
• Dario | Complete any stage rejecting all but the flame | Only use fire weapons, like Raging Fire and Fire Wand. Passive Weapons are all fine, so evolve your weapons. Avoid Candy Boxes or Arma Dios, as they will cancel out your run. Best to use Charlette.
• Celia | Evolve both Vol Luminatio and Vol Umbra | Both weapons need to be maxed out with a Crown and Attractorb passive weapons. Once they evolve, level them both 3 more times each and they’ll evolve again. | WITHLIGHT
• Dmitri | “Undo the fused demon with Light” | Use Celia and kill Menace. This boss is found in the green sewer area under the castle, near the speed boots. | MENACINGHAIRCUT
• Graham | “Bring bad luck to the count’s belligerent bosses” | Defeat every boss in the castle after unlocking Dracula. Does not have to be in a single run. | UMBRALECLIPSE
• Joachim | Defeat the Joachim boss with Sara Trantoul | In the ice caves beneath the castle is a hidden room on the east. Inside is a boss circle to summon Joachim. | CANTHOLDTHEMALL
• Walter | Defeat the Walter boss with Rinaldo | Take Rinaldo to the new bridge section in the center of the castle. You can get there from the east of the first room where you pick up an Arma Dario in the castle. | ITSALLHISFAULT
• Carmilla | “May the power of the first Belmont break her mask” | For some reason we can’t find, you defeat the Carmilla boss with the Nightmare spell. Evolve Hex with the Skull O’Mania passive weapon. Carmilla is in the stone walkways before the Clock Tower. | WEEPINGMASK
• Count Olrox | Defeat Olrox with Dark Rift equipped | You can purchase Dark Rift from the Librarian Merchant. Use it to fight Olrox, who is located beneath the Chapel, west of the giant construct boss. | DONTDISTURBDINNER
• Cave Troll | Defeat 3,000,000 cave trolls | Doesn’t have to be in one run, thankfully. They’ll spawn mostly in the Ice Cave area under the castle. | CHUPACABRA
• Fleaman | Defeat 6,000 Fleaman enemies | You’ll do this over the course of playing. They spawn all over the castle. | FINALBOSS
• Axe Armor | Defeat Axe Armors with Stellar Blade | Discus evolves into Stellar Blade with Parm Aegis. In the southwest corner of the church is a room that has nonstop Axe Armor spawns. | MISSAXALOTL
• Frozenshade | Defeat multiple Frozenshade with Gemma Torpor and/or Jewel Gun | Gemma Torpor evolves from Rock Riot with a maxed Stone Mask passive weapon, and Jewel Gun evolves with Karoma’s Mana. In the eastern part of the Ice Cave under the castle is a hidden room that spawns tons of them.
• Succubus | “Give the deceiver a taste of her own medicine” | Evolve Hex into Nightmare with the Skull O’Rama. She can be found in the room with the red Dominus weapon in the southeast corner of the map. | THATSNOTLISA
• Keremet | Use Jonathan and Charlotte to defeat the Keremet boss | In the north near the Silver Ring is a boss called Keremet. Defeat it with either of the Jonathan and Charlotte paired characters. | CAULDRONKING
• Sniper | Defeat multiple Amalaric Snipers using Stellar Blade | Evolve the Discus into Stellar Blade using the Parm Aegis passive weapon. Defeat snipers using this, mostly found on the eastern half of the castle. | GOTHANGEL
• Blackmore | Defeat Blackmore with Barlow | Blackmore is in the hidden library section in the north. From the Paranoia boss fight, go west into the secret room. | BIZARRESHADEADVENTURE
• Malphas | Defeat Malphas with Quincy or John Morris | Malphas will appear wherever you are at the 25 minute mark. | KARASUMAN
• Death | “Make it feel at home” | In one run, acquire all 4 Clock Tower items as Richter Belmont and level them up to max. Evolve into “Clock Tower,” and confront Death in Dracula’s Throne Room. SEWARDZEAD
• Galamoth | Defeat Galamoth with the Power of Sire | Level up the 3 dominus weapons and evolve them into Power of Sire. You can find Galamoth in the green sewer area under the castle. | SIZEMATTERS

Ebony and Crimson Stones unlocks

The last item you need to unlock is found in the southeast corner of the castle. You’ll have a boss fight with Legion, who will drop the Ebony and Crimson Stones. Once you have them, you must defeat 100,000 enemies in one run with the listed characters. We recommend Endless Mode for that.

• Megalo Elizabeth | “Ravage everything and everyone in Dracula’s Castle while in her demonic form” | Defeat 100,000 enemies in one run as Elizabeth. | PETRIFYINGLYEVIL
• Megalo Olrox | “Find the greatest treasure of the vampires and prove that the other Count can wreak havoc in the Castle” | Defeat 100,000 enemies in one run as Olrox. | THEOTHERCOUNT 
• Megalo Death | “Unleash maximised Death on the Castle while holding the soul-stealing stones” | Defeat 100,000 enemies in one run as Death. | EMBRACETHEREAPER
• Megalo Dracula | “Hold the stones that birthed your lineage and prove you hold dominance over all your monstrous minions” | Defeat 100,000 enemies in one run as Dracula. | MATHIASCRONQVIST
• Chaos | Get all other secrets | This is the last thing you’ll unlock. The secret code is 1-21 in roman numerals put together | IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXVXVIXVIIXVIIIXIXXXXXI