DmC: Devil May Cry is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Capcom. The story takes place in a separate continuity from previous Devil May Cry games. The game's story takes place in Limbo City, a modern-day city secretly controlled by all-powerful demons, manipulating humanity through the comforts of life. It follows Dante, a young demon hunter whose twin brother Vergil recruits him to help defeat the demon king Mundus. The hack-and-slash gameplay is similar to previous Devil May Cry games; as Dante, the player uses a variety of melee weapons and firearms to defeat enemies. The game introduces modifiers to Dante's moveset, known as Angel Mode and Devil Mode, which aid in both combat and traversal.

Capcom decided to reboot Devil May Cry to increase its commercial appeal following Devil May Cry 4 (2008), and recruited Ninja Theory after being impressed by their work on Heavenly Sword (2007). The team included over ninety members with nearly ten of them being from Capcom, which specifically assisted the development of the game's combat system and gave Ninja Theory freedom in creating its world and characters. Tameem Antoniades served as the game's director, Alex Garland served as a narrative consultant, and Hideki Itsuno served the project's overall supervisor. At Capcom's request, Dante received a drastic redesign inspired by Hollywood movies. The tone of the game was more mature than its predecessors; its setting of Limbo City was designed to be more grounded and lived-in, and was inspired by European cities such as Genoa and Barcelona. Electronic music band Noisia and industrial metal band Combichrist contributed to the game's soundtracks.

Following its reveal at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2010, DmC received a negative response from Devil May Cry fans, who criticized the reboot and Dante's redesign. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows in January 2013. It received positive reviews, with praise for the gameplay, art style, and story. The game sold 4.4 million copies by March 2024, but did not meet Capcom's initial expectations. It was supported with a paid downloadable content pack which follows Vergil after the game's ending. A Definitive Edition remaster including all DLC, new costumes, and additional gameplay features was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2015. The next game in the franchise, Devil May Cry 5 (2019) returned to the original Devil May Cry continuity and gameplay formula, while incorporating a more realistic art-style similar to DmC.

DmC: Devil May Cry is a hack and slash action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. In the game, the player assumes control of Dante, who must use his powers and weaponry to fight against enemies and navigate the treacherous Limbo City. Dante's primary weapon of choice is his sword named Rebellion, and his dual pistols named Ebony and Ivory. As a hack-and-slash game, DmC allows players to string together consecutive attacks to form combos or perform special moves. Dante can also launch enemies into the air with his sword, parry incoming attacks, and quickly dodge. Occasionally, players will be able to activate the "Devil Trigger" mode, which makes Dante faster and more powerful, regenerates his health and launches weaker enemies into the air. Unlike previous games in the series, DmC forgoes a manual lock-on system and instead tracks enemies automatically with its game camera. Players' performance is scored and rated into different ranks. Players can obtain higher ranks by fighting enemies with style, varying their combos, and avoiding being hit by enemies, which will reset the score. Scores can be shared online through a leaderboard. Higher ratings grant Dante increased attack power. Enemies' artificial intelligence adapts to player performance, becoming more aggressive at higher scores and less aggressive at lower ones.

New to the series are modifiers to Dante's moveset, known as Angel Mode and Devil Mode. In Angel Mode, Dante wields a scythe which allows him to launch fast, long-ranged attacks that get increasingly powerful, while in Devil Mode, he wields a slower, more powerful axe that deals significant damage to a single enemy. Eventually, he will unlock more weapons, including a flaming gauntlet, a pair of throwing blades, and a sawed-off shotgun. Some enemies are only vulnerable to certain weapon types, requiring players to adjust their playstyle. Angel weapons allows Dante to grapple onto distant or flying enemies and pull him towards them, while Devil weapons pull lighter enemies towards him. These abilities will also aid Dante's traversal during the game's platforming sections, allowing him to reach distant areas. As players defeat enemies, earn high scores, and interact with the environment, they can purchase new moves and upgrade existing ones, and gain red orbs which can be used to purchase upgrades to increase Dante's overall health, boost the effectiveness of Devil's Trigger, and golden orbs, which resurrect Dante after he is defeated.

While the game's 20 missions are linear, levels in the game feature optional areas, some of which can only be unlocked when the player replays the game with the full arsenal unlocked. There are also challenge rooms which task players to complete missions under certain requirements. The game features three difficulty levels. Once the player completes the game in any of the three levels, four additional levels are unlocked, increasing the gameplay challenge through changing enemy placement, adding new enemy behaviours, and modifying the health of both Dante and enemies. The Definitive Edition of the game introduces "Turbo Mode", which further boosts the overall gameplay speed by 20%.

The game is set in a parallel universe of the series. The game's story takes place in Limbo City, a modern-day city secretly controlled by all-powerful demons, manipulating humanity through the comforts of life, with the demons themselves residing in a parallel plane called "Limbo". Living on the fringes of society is Dante, a young man aware of the existence of demons, devoting himself to fighting them in secret but otherwise wasting his life by indulging in junk food and sex.

One day, Dante is warned by a young woman named Kat that he is in danger, just as a Hunter demon drags him into Limbo. Dante grabs his weapons and slays the Hunter with Kat's help, as she can see into Limbo with her psychic powers. Dante returns to the human world and accepts Kat's offer to meet with her boss, Vergil. Along the way, Kat explains that Vergil leads "The Order", an organization intent on exposing the demons and releasing the world from their control. Vergil explains that he wants Dante to join the Order and reveals that he and Dante are not only long-lost twin brothers but also Nephilim, the children of an angel and a demon and the only beings capable of killing the cruel demon king Mundus. Their father Sparda was Mundus' chief lieutenant in the war against the angels until he betrayed Mundus by fathering twins with the angel Eva. Mundus, afraid of the Nephilim and seeing them as abominations, killed Eva and condemned Sparda to eternal torture while vowing to hunt down Dante, unaware of Vergil's existence. After learning of his past by visiting his family's decrepit mansion, Dante resolves to help Vergil bring down Mundus and his regime.