

Rating
The Blood of Dawnwalker
A dark fantasy RPG built inside the Unreal 5 engine
Details
- Released
- September 3, 2026
- Developer
- Rebel Wolves
- Genres
- Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Open world
- Platforms
- PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
Time to beat · 4 player times (IGDB)
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The Blood of Dawnwalker Reviews
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Check out our The Blood of Dawnwalker review to see if this relentless dark fantasy RPG truly respects your time or succumbs to its own dark curse.
From several of the minds behind The Witcher 3, comes The Blood of Dawnwalker, an action RPG set in a region under the control of a court of vampires. And, as Coen is transformed into one during an attack on his village, his revenge will only be complete once they are dead, and his family returned.
Even with poor optimization, the excellent narrative and challenging combat make it an experience very close to its main influences.
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a new open world action RPG, with a central character trying to rescue his family from powerful vampire lords.
"Dawn Walker's Blood" is the kind of excellent work that will continuously reveal its highlights once you immerse yourself in it.
The Blood of Dawnwalker's rough edges and technical issues hold it back, but its 30-day time system, meaningful quests, satisfying combat, and vampire-human...
Rebel Wolves has said that they envisage this to be only the first chapter in an ongoing saga and, beyond Coen, a potential legendarium of related stories across a long history. Given the location of the Carpathian Mountains, it could well turn out to be like a western RPG spin on the same broad idea as the Castlevania franchise. That, of course, is contingent on The Blood of Dawnwalker being a commercial success, and I do believe it deserves to be. The narrative might be subservient to the mechanics, and not as thematically evocative as I might like, but excellent writing does combine with qu...
Eastern Europe, vampires, and the developers of The Witcher 3, what an explosive cocktail! What could possibly go wrong? Just about everything. But not all at once. And therein lies the central drama of The
The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't excel at everything it hopes to achieve, with wonky combat, an open-world littered with repetitive tasks, and some underdeveloped mechanics, but the ambition, some cleverly connected choices, and highlights in key story moments are well worthy of praise.