{"id":327837,"date":"2026-05-02T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327837"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:44:47","slug":"the-blood-of-dawnwalker-the-open-world-rpg-from-developers-behind-the-witcher-planned-for-september-3-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-the-open-world-rpg-from-developers-behind-the-witcher-planned-for-september-3-release\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blood of Dawnwalker, the Open-World RPG from Developers Behind The Witcher, Planned for September 3 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rebel Wolves has announced that its first game out of the gate, <em>The Blood of Dawnwalker,<\/em> will arrive on September 3 for PCs and consoles. The studio, formed by former staff from CD PROJEKT RED who worked on <em>The Witcher 3,<\/em> first announced its debut project in December 2024. Since then, there\u2019s been a somewhat regular flow of updates regarding its progress, and on April 28, the official launch and system requirements were revealed together with a brand new trailer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Blood of Dawnwalker is the primary chapter of Rebel Wolves\u2019 brand recent role-playing saga \u2014 a single-player open-world dark fantasy action-RPG with a robust concentrate on story and narrative. Developed on Unreal Engine 5 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox X|S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2013 Rebel Wolves<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Story Trailer [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVQiJ9ci0HI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Story Trailer [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVQiJ9ci0HI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c14th-century Europe. Bloody conflicts sweep the lands, and the Black Death comes for the survivors. Vampires seize their opportunity to walk out of the shadows and claim what they\u2019ve been denied for hundreds of years: freedom, and the ability that comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2013 Rebel Wolves<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Players will tackle the role of Coen, who was turned at an early age during a dark period in history. He\u2019s torn between worlds in an attempt to save lots of his family or enact revenge inside 30 days, but can he save his soul in the method? Built using Unreal Engine 5, <em>Blood of Dawnwalker<\/em> already has some impressive-looking visuals, and folk are already complimenting its music as well. Folks wanting to see the sport at its highest (Ultra) settings in 4K are going to wish an RTX 5090, but otherwise it appears the sport will scale nicely with an assortment of other GPUs in 1080p\/1440p.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-2048x1152.webp 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-696x391.webp 696w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-1068x601.webp 1068w, https:\/\/cdn.thefpsreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/blood-of-dawnwalker-system-requirements-1920x1080.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rebel Wolves co-founder and The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who also directed <em>The Witcher 3<\/em>, hasn\u2019t been shy about his confidence in the brand new game or what the team wanted it to be. He shared the next with Eurogamer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m really confident, and the sport we&#8217;ve is absolutely great, and I believe that RPG players are waiting for larger games like ours, that are telling good stories and giving freedom and following them to play the role in these words. And I keep my fingers crossed and I believe we\u2019ll be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2013 Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, Rebel Wolves cofounder<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are a series of gameplay overview videos that ought to give an excellent idea of what to anticipate from the sport. While players should be mindful that the clock is ticking right down to complete whatever they select as their ultimate goal inside 30 days, they may even should strategize on how Coen interacts with the world around him since his powers and weaknesses change throughout the day or night.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ro8psdfcxJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ro8psdfcxJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview (Part II) [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arbNkIdeAVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview (Part II) [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arbNkIdeAVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview (Part III) [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/99w_x1SsK-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blood of Dawnwalker \u2014 Gameplay Overview (Part III) [4K] [subtitles available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/99w_x1SsK-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.thefpsreview.com\/threads\/19635\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Join the discussion in The FPS Review Forums&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebel Wolves has announced that its first game out of the gate, The Blood of Dawnwalker, will arrive on September 3 for PCs and consoles. The studio, formed by former staff from CD PROJEKT RED who worked on The Witcher 3, first announced its debut project in December 2024. Since then, there\u2019s been a somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1331,21517,7819,14357,9874,1905,100,8280,12276],"class_list":["post-327837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-blood","tag-dawnwalker","tag-developers","tag-openworld","tag-planned","tag-release","tag-rpg","tag-september","tag-witcher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327840,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327837\/revisions\/327840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}