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The Blood of Dawnwalker
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The Blood of Dawnwalker

byRebel Wolves•2026

A dark fantasy RPG built inside the Unreal 5 engine

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Released
September 3, 2026
Developer
Rebel Wolves
Platforms
PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S

How it plays

30h
main
42h
main + extras
55h
completionist

Time to beat · 4 player times (IGDB)

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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.

Sep 1, 2026

The Blood of Dawn Walker is wonderful...

Sep 1, 2026

We are the things that others fear.

Sep 21, 2026

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.

Sep 24, 2026

Even with poor optimization, the excellent narrative and challenging combat make it an experience very close to its main influences.

Sep 15, 2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a new open world action RPG, with a central character trying to rescue his family from powerful vampire lords.

Sep 10, 2026

"Dawn Walker's Blood" is the kind of excellent work that will continuously reveal its highlights once you immerse yourself in it.

Sep 17, 2026

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...

Sep 2, 2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a cult classic in waiting

Sep 1, 2026

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...

Sep 1, 2026

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

Sep 29, 2026

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.

Sep 1, 2026