Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition features improved visuals and gameplay at up to 120 frames per second. Alongside all previously-released downloadable content, other additions include Vergil as a playable…

87 10 November 2020

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 10 November 2020 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Verified 19 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB

What Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition is

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2020. It is available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It runs on RE Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition features improved visuals and gameplay at up to 120 frames per second. Alongside all previously-released downloadable content, other additions include Vergil as a playable character, ray tracing graphics options, and two additional game modes: Legendary Dark Knight mode, which significantly increases the number of enemies in each level, and Turbo mode, which increases the game speed by 20%.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Devil May Cry series

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition is the 39th of 43 entries we hold in the Devil May Cry series. It arrived 9 months after Devil May Cry Triple Pack. The next entry was Devil May Cry 5: Playable Character - Vergil in 2020. Its critic score of 87 is 10 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening - Special Edition at 90.

See all 43 Devil May Cry games in release order →

How it was received

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition launched on 10 November 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Cheats and codes

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