Darkstalkers 3 is a world of shadows and monsters where you must fight your way through eight fighters, chosen from a starting cast of eighteen. Along the way you must fulfill your characters personal storylines, all the while surviving the increasingly tougher fighters. Play as Jedah, B. B. Hood, Q-Bee, Lilith, Demitri, Morrigan, Anakaris, Victor, L. Raptor, Hsien-Ko, J. Talbain, Felicia, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Bishamon, Donovan, Pyron or Huitzil, and conquer the enemy.
Three large noblemen rule the Dark World, and one of them, Jedah, has been resurrected. Boasting that he old be the one to unite every dispirited soul, he summoned the owners of "valuable souls" to his Dark Dimension. There, he will unite them all to himself.