Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy
Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy is a 2013 point-and-click adventure video game developed by Koalabs Studio for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android and OS X. It was published on all systems by Anuman under their Microïds brand. In 2014, the game was released on GOG.com and Steam, bundled with its prequel, Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon.
| Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy | |
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| Developer(s) | Koalabs Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Anuman |
| Producer(s) | Franck Berrios |
| Designer(s) | Marianne Tostivint |
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| Artist(s) | Olivier Train |
| Writer(s) | Marianne Tostivint |
| Composer(s) | Pierre Estève |
| Platform(s) | Windows, iOS, Android, OS X |
| Release | Windows
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| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The game follows 2000's Dracula: Resurrection and Dracula: The Last Sanctuary, 2008's Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon and 2013's Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon. The plot is unrelated to Resurrection and Last Sanctuary, but is instead the second of a two-part loose sequel to Path of the Dragon, continuing the story of Metropolitan Museum of Art art restorer Ellen Cross and her investigation into a mysterious portrait of Dracula. Ellen's journey leads her from New York to Istanbul to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, bringing her into contact with an ancient secret society founded by Vlad Tepes' brother Radu, and placing her in the middle of a 500-year-old conflict between the society and Dracula's followers.
The Blood Legacy received very little attention in the mainstream gaming press, with limited coverage from professional critics, and what reviews it did receive were negative. As with Shadow of the Dragon, the biggest criticism of the game was its length, but critics were also unimpressed with the plot, the graphics, and the identical gameplay to the previous game.