Drăculești 🦇

Hello Mortals, Recently, we announced via our newsletter and Kickstarter campaign page delays to Drăculești’s upcoming Early Access release. As several of our team have been out sick this month (including our socials manager), we failed to relay this on our socials pages! We’re sharing this information here now to ensure it’s been covered everywhere. While we had originally intended to release in Early Access this March, we ran into a few major development obstacles that will be delaying our release. Rather than risk a further date slip, we’ll be waiting until we’re fully confident to announce a new planned release date – however, we are still aiming to release in the first half of 2026. As a reminder, the Early Access release will contain Dracula and the Ghost’s storylines, which total to around 400,000 words. Polishing that much material is quite an undertaking, and we underestimated how long it’d take to wrap it all up – as well as having some other challenges to manage. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we look forward to letting you know as soon as we schedule a new release date. - The Fiends

Greetings mortals,

We have an important update regarding our Early Access Release. Please find it below 🦇

Illustration of Cez and Renfield from Drâculeşti. Cez is seated, holding a cigerette holder in one hand and Renfields chin in the other while Renfield leans against them

Happy New Year! Cez is thrilled to welcome Renfield, and everyone else, to 2026. Surely there's no finer fiend to celebrate with? 💋 Thanks to @saproartist.bsky.social for our January guest art!

Find love in the darkest night in romantic horror narrative game Drăculești 🦇

Coming to Early Access (PC/Mac) on 2nd March 2026

Wishlist on Steam 🖤
store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Draculesti/

Our art director Penta! They spent a long time iterating on the UI design - it's been getting continual updates and revisions over six years of development, so they've really fine-tuned it by now.

Seduce Dracula in 2026 as Drăculești reveals Early Access release date This morning's Frosty Mini showcase revealed that romance horror visual novel Drăculești will enter Early Access on the 2nd of March, 2026.

At long last, Drăculești arrives in Early Access in just a few short months.

@fine-fiends.bsky.social

checkpointgaming.net/news/2025/12...

Our Early Access release will include two complete character routes, Dracula and the Ghost. Choose your pleasure (or your pain) as you like! 🧛‍♂️👻

Find love in the darkest night in romantic horror narrative game Drăculești 🦇

Coming to Early Access (PC/Mac) on 2nd March 2026

Wishlist on Steam 🖤
store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Draculesti/

Featured in Frosty Mini 2025! Watch the full showcase here: Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Draculesti/ Find more games made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand on our Steam… Drăculești | Early Access Announcement Trailer | Frosty Mini 2025

Find love in the darkest night in romantic horror narrative game, Drăculești – though, you may not live to see the dawn.

Check out the early access announcement from @fine-fiends.bsky.social:

15 minutes to go 🦇

Check out @frostygamesfest.com

Promo image for Frost Mini, featuring Jonny and Renfield.

We're coming out of our grave (and we've been doing just fine)! Tune into Frosty Mini tomorrow to see a cool new Drâculeşti trailer with a ghostly focus ❄️👻 1pm Dec 9th PT / 8am Dec 10th AEST

We'll be at PAX Australia this weekend 🧛‍♂️ come visit us in the Together Lounge

"You seem like a hungry man. Is this place starving you?"

September's guest artist is Toastyglow, with a relaxed Dracula

"You seem like a hungry man. Is this place starving you?"

September's guest artist is Toastyglow, with a relaxed Dracula

Regular Cez pulls Renfield's tie, while Shadow Cez restrains his arms from behind

it is once again... bi visibility day

Drăculești: a romantic horror narrative game Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in romantic horror game Drăculești.

We'll be closing late pledges in the next hour! actual_real_final chance to get merch before we close and start sending out backer surveys. Order a Dracula charm now or forever hold your peace.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Late pledges closing tomorrow ❣️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Dracula or the Ghost body pillows and bookmarks, with art by Saren Stone

Character prints by Saren Stone, Noah Dao, qttsky, Casper Pham, and Pigeon Princess (plus more on the page)

Stickers by Penta (sheet) and Juniipears (individual)

Charms by Penta

Here's a reminder of a few of the items we have available!

After late pledges close, we can't guarantee they'll be available to order again, since shipping from Australia... can be complex. So, if you're interested, now's the time!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

the Draculesti Kickstarter page, with the Late Pledge banner still active - closes soon!

if you missed the Drăculești Kickstarter campaign, it's last call for late pledges! There are two days left to place an order for any of the physical rewards we offered - including the artbook, prints, charms, and more.

Ends 8pm Sept 9th PT / 4am Sept 10th BST / 1pm Sept 10th AEST

Art featuring the ghost and renfield.

"Leucojum. Chionodoxa. Cerastium. Galanthus. A garden can flourish despite the cold. Every earthly delight is here."

August's guest artist is @arielries.bsky.social, with an intimate encounter between Renfield and the Ghost 💙

Art featuring the ghost and renfield.

"Leucojum. Chionodoxa. Cerastium. Galanthus. A garden can flourish despite the cold. Every earthly delight is here."

August's guest artist is @arielries.bsky.social, with an intimate encounter between Renfield and the Ghost 💙

Now I'm in Berlin... so, Renfield doesn't have a specific building we've referenced, but he does have a street - here's where he lives!

At the moment it's covered in sunflowers, so I think we chose the right place.

Thank you! It printed differently to how we intended but I like the sleek minimalist look we ended up with

Drâculeşti Gamescom booth

It's Gamescom week! We're in Hall 10.2, in the Indie Arena Booth ❣️ Come find us, if you're here!

Kickstarter Completed! Dracula bows to you

The Drăculești Kickstarter is officially over! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who backed it or otherwise supported us 🖤

$107,026/76,00 47 minutes to go (less now!)

There are just over forty minutes left to the Drâculeşti Kickstarter! Check it out 🦇

AU $105,065/76,000 3 hours to go

Stretch Goals 81k AUD physical artbook 90k dev pay rise 100k more romance cgs 105k more music - just met 110k more merch

With three hours to go, we've hit our music stretch goal!

Our next stretch goal will allow us to produce additional merch for Van Helsing; such as a sticker and a character print (to be designed).

102,122 / 76,000 6 hours to go!!

Stretch Goals 81k - Physical Artbook 90k - Devs Get a Pay Rise 100k - More Romance CGs 105k - More Music 110k - More Merch More to come!

Six hours left on the Drăculești Kickstarter campaign, and we're halfway to the music stretch goal!

Just a liiittle further and we'll be able to get a track for Hell Court, the place where vampires go for a divorce.

100,147 / 76,000 15 hours to go

81k - Physical Artbook (REACHED) 90k - Devs Get a Pay Rise (REACHED) 100k - More Romance CGs (REACHED) 105k - More Music 110k - More Merch More to come!

15 hours left on the Drâculeşti Kickstarter, and we've hit another stretch goal! We will now have... more scandalous pictures of Dracula! (and others)

Next up: more music! Can we get Van Helsing the cool theme song he deserves?

98,884 / 76,000 24 hours to go!

Stretch Goals 81,000 - Physical Artbook (REACHED) 90,000 - Devs Get a Pay Rise (REACHED) 100,000 - More Romance CGs 105,000 - More Music 110,000 - More Merch More to come!

It's the FINAL DAY of the Drăculești Kickstarter!

We're close to our next stretch goal, adding more romance illustrations to the game. How... alluring. Let's reach out and touch it!