The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
Put on your wide-brimmed hat, grab your weapons and embark on an incredible adventure in the gothic-noir world of Borgovia, where mad science threatens the fragile peace between monster and mortal. Be Van…
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an adventure developed by NeocoreGames, released 22 May 2013 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an adventure game developed by NeocoreGames and released in 2013. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an action role-playing video game developed and published by NeocoreGames. It was released on 22 May 2013. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, the game focuses on the trials of young Van Helsing, son of the legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from the book. The game is set in a gothic-noir 19th-century Eastern Europe and contains "intentionally anachronistic humor and gadgetry". A sequel, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II, was released on 22 May 2014. A second sequel, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III, was released on 22 May 2015.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 95 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Van Helsing series
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is the third of 6 entries we hold in the Van Helsing series. It arrived 9 years after Van Helsing. The next entry was The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II in 2014. Its critic score of 64 is 7 points above the series average of 57. The highest-rated entry is The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II at 74.
How it was received
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 75 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 33 hrs, roughly 2.8 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing launched on 22 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Swapper. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, The Swapper.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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