Rebel Wolves, the new studio formed by former CDPR developers, has fully revealed its debut project, the single-player third-person dark fantasy open-world RPG Blood of Dawnwalker.
Rebel Wolves formed almost two years ago and the studio confirmed it had a new game in development almost a year ago, but a new four-minute cinematic trailer completely lifted the lid on the project. In it, we see a young man carrying his little sister through a medieval European city ravaged by plague and bloodthirsty vampires. After being stopped by armed guards who were planning to kill his sister, the scene erupts into chaos as the vampires attack and kill everyone except the man and his sister, whom a vampire can heal with his bare hands.
“I am life. I am death. I am everything in between,” the vampire growls. “I have been watching your little valley. Pestilence. Famine. Carnage. Blood carelessly spilled like water. Things will be different now for all of you.”
The Blood of Dawnwalker: Cinematic Trailer and Gameplay Preview – YouTube
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The trailer is largely cinematic, but at the end we get some brief glimpses of gameplay that show the protagonist fighting some monsters, including something that looks like a biomechanical spider. Again, it's too brief to extract anything meaningful, but it's something.
“The Blood of Dawnwalker is the first chapter in the new Rebel Wolves RPG saga: a single-player open-world dark fantasy action RPG with a strong focus on story and narrative,” says Rebel Wolves, suggesting that the game is being planned as the start of a new series.
Founded in 2022, Rebel Wolves is led by The Witcher 3 game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who left CDPR in 2021 following bullying allegations (via Eurogamer), and former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk quest director Mateusz Tomaszkiewic. . They are joined by CDPR alumni Bartłomiej Gaweł, art director of The Witcher 3 and Blood of Dawnwalker, and Jakub Szamałek, narrative director of Rebel Wolves. The studio's animation director, Tamara Zawada, left in 2024.
The Blood of Dawnwalker puts you in control of Coen, the man in the trailer, who becomes Dawnwalker, a human-vampire hybrid.
A full reveal of the game is planned for summer 2025.
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