The director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has presented his new role-playing project for PS5, Xbox, and PC with a wonderfully dark trailer. In The Blood of Dawnwalker, you will become a blood-sucking vampire.
What kind of game is it? The Blood of Dawnwalker is an action RPG set in a dark fantasy world with an open world, focusing heavily on the narrative experience. The role-playing game is being developed in Unreal Engine 5 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox X|S.
The project is backed by the studio Rebel Wolves, founded by former industry veterans who have worked at CD Projekt Red among others. The team includes, for example, the game director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Konrad Tomaszkiewicz.
The ambitions are correspondingly high: The Blood of Dawnwalker is a AAA production that is supposed to kick off a whole saga of role-playing games. Here you can see the first cinematic trailer, which also includes a small gameplay teaser:
Bloodsuckers Rise
What’s the game about? The Blood of Dawnwalker takes place in 14th-century Europe. The land is shaken by bloody conflicts and the plague. The population is decimated and severely weakened. Now, vampires see their chance to step out of the shadows and rise to the top of the food chain.
Out of necessity, the protagonist Coen has also transformed into a Dawnwalker. However, you have the choice to either fight for your humanity or embrace your new powers. The latter could put your family’s lives at risk. To save them or seek revenge, you only have 30 days and nights.
You’ll be fighting against humans, vampires, and monsters. At the same time, valuable allies may also be among them. Who you encounter, what abilities are available to you, and which plot threads you can pursue are said to heavily depend on the time of day.
The time pressure is expected to be more than merely cosmetic. If you want to experience all the side quests alongside the main story, you must play The Blood of Dawnwalker multiple times. There won’t be enough time for everything in the 30 days. A more detailed gameplay presentation is expected to follow in summer 2025. There is currently no release date.
While Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is working on The Blood of Dawnwalker with his new team, his former employer is focusing, among other things, on The Witcher 4. The developers want to remain true to the lore of the predecessors – One who knows how to do it is taking care of that.
