The Blood of Dawnwalker appears to already be the next big thing in the RPG space, with the non-linear dark fantasy title from ex-CDPR devs at Rebel Wolves arriving to high praise and equally high sales. Less than a week on from the game’s official launch, Rebel Wolves are already hiring for its sequel.

Marking the debut title from new studio Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker has already made its presence well known; with the action-RPG being praised in particular for its narrative and writing while selling over 1 million copies in 48 hours.

Capitalising on the game’s success, The Blood of Dawnwalker’s narrative director Jakub Szamalek took to LinkedIn to announce that work is already underway on a sequel, posting:

“Hey writers! Me again. The Blood of Dawnwalker released to critical acclaim and sold over one million copies in the opening weekend. But! We're not resting on our laurels – no, siree! We're already thinking about (sic) comes next.”

Szamalek continued, “And so! Drum roll please! I'm looking for a Lead Writer to help me and the narrative team craft the next chapter in the Dawnwalker saga. We're looking for someone who, to put it bluntly, writes EXCEPTIONALLY well, has a track record of excellence and experience in team management.”

As mentioned, The Blood of Dawnwalker has been particularly praised for its writing and characters, and so it makes sense that Rebel Wolves would want to ensure that they have the right team at the helm for what will likely be a highly-anticipated sequel.

KitGuru says: What do you think of The Blood of Dawnwalker? Is it as compelling as many have claimed? What would you like to see them focus on with the sequel? Let us know down below.

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Rebel Wolves and CAPCOM have announced that their latest games, The Blood of Dawnwalker and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, have already surpassed one million units sold across all platforms. The Polish developer shared the news on social media with a celebratory image. The Japanese studio, on the other hand, put out a press release that provided a bit more info; Onimusha: Way of the Sword became a million-seller on its launch day, and its performance was already enough to push the franchise's lifetime sales to over 10 million units. They're great results in both cases. Rebel Wolves is a […]

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Rebel Wolves has confirmed that its debut RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide within its first 48 hours on sale.

Crossing the one‑million mark this quickly is a rare achievement for a brand‑new franchise, even with a simultaneous launch across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Rebel Wolves was founded in 2022 by former Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, and very quickly, a team of Witcher 3 veterans were able to put together this dense, high-quality RPG, without spending hundreds of millions of dollars, or taking 6+ years of development time.

Critic reception has been strong across the board. Over on OpenCritic, the game holds an 85 average rating based on more than 100 critic reviews. Meanwhile, the Metacritic score sits at 83 overall, drawn from around 60 published reviews.

Player sentiment is similarly positive. On Steam, The Blood of Dawnwalker currently holds a Very Positive rating based on more than 7,000 user reviews. The top‑rated reviews consistently highlight the game’s quest structure, emphasis on exploration and immersion, and its refusal to rely on heavy hand‑holding, qualities many players feel are missing from modern open‑world RPGs.

KitGuru Says: Hitting one million copies in just two days is a huge win for Rebel Wolves. With the first game being a quick success, hopefully the developers can now start planning for their next game. 

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The Blood of Dawnwalker’s best feature is its 30-day countdown, and modders have already gutted it.

The time-passing system is what separates it from RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077, where you’re told your character has weeks to live yet somehow spend months chasing side quests without consequence. Blood of Dawnwalker actually commits to the pressure.

A mod that removes the point of the game

The top mod on Nexus Mods stretches the timer from 30 days to 90 and removes the time cost from levelling up. That means you can do everything the game offers in a single playthrough, no trade-offs, no urgency, no reason to ever choose.

That’s the entire design gone. Big quests are meant to eat your limited time, forcing you to play a different version of Coen each playthrough, one with different priorities and different calls to make on people like Brencis. Strip that away, and you’re left with a generic RPG that plays exactly like everything else on the shelf. You lose the replay value, too.

It’s like cutting heroes from Dota 2, or guns from Call of Duty. Technically still a game. Just not the one anyone made.

So why buy it, install a mod that deletes its core system, and then play a worse version of it? If the timer isn’t for you, that’s fine, but removing it isn’t fixing the game. It’s just a different, weaker game wearing the same skin.

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The Blood of Dawnwalker officially launches today and it will be coming out to strong praise from critics. The game is launching to a wave of high review scores, as early players point out its strong story, unique structure and combat. 

Across OpenCritic, The Blood of Dawnwalker currently holds an 85 average critic rating, while on Metacritic it sits at 83 overall, based on around 60 published reviews. Early impressions point toward a strong, story‑driven RPG with a distinctive tone and plenty of ambition.

Critics have praised the game’s world‑building, characters and blend of horror‑tinged fantasy. IGN awarded the game a 9/10, calling it “an impressive, bloody cocktail of interesting ideas and well‑written characters”. PC Gamer scored it 83/100, describing it as a “resolutely miserable horror RPG” with strong concepts, even if not all of them fully land. Eurogamer gave it 4/5, highlighting its bold ideas and noting that the team’s CD Projekt Red heritage is clear throughout.

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a unique RPG in that you aren’t supposed to experience everything in a single playthrough. Your character is on the clock, with a set amount of in‑game time to complete quests and save your family. Ignoring the main quest for too long, or choosing to spend too much time on side content, can lead to a painful ending, so players have to balance their time carefully in a way that few other RPGs demand.

KitGuru Says: The Blood of Dawnwalker is off to a strong start, with solid reviews across the board. Are you planning on picking this game up this week? 

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Over the last few years, hearing about a brand new studio created by decorated industry veterans behind award-winning titles has become almost a mainstay in gaming news coverage. How many times have we read a press release that began "from AAA veterans with long careers at BioWare, Bungie, Epic, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Bethesda", et cetera, et cetera? So many developers chose to chart their own path after shipping one or more big titles, either due to creative differences with management, a desire to take their career into their own hands, or a combination of the two. The thing is, most of […]

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Rebel Wolves just walked back one of the more annoying pieces of news to come out of Blood of Dawnwalker’s pre-launch run. After a video last week revealed the game would cap out at 40 FPS on consoles, even on PS5 Pro, the studio has now confirmed a proper 60 FPS Performance Mode will be ready for launch day on September 3.

Fair play to them, honestly. That original video landed badly, and 40 FPS in 2026 was never going to go down well with console players who’ve gotten used to having the option.

Blood of Dawnwalker devs listened to the backlash

A post on X from the official Blood of Dawnwalker account cleared things up. The devs said they’d only shown what they were confident they could deliver at the time, and Performance Mode simply wasn’t finished testing yet, so it got left out of that video entirely.

The Blood of #Dawnwalker will receive a Performance Mode targeting 60 FPS on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Xbox Series X on Day 1 through the launch patch.

On Friday, we answered your questions about console performance with what we knew we could confidently deliver at launch.

Performance… pic.twitter.com/Jy38ZFfgFy

— Dawnwalker (@DawnwalkerGame) August 24, 2026

Once fans made it clear this was a dealbreaker for a lot of people, Rebel Wolves pushed to get Performance Mode through testing in time for release. Credit where it’s due, that’s exactly the kind of response you want to see instead of radio silence.

Blood of Dawnwalker is coming from Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco Entertainment on September 3 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Performance Mode fans can breathe easy.

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Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves just gave us our first real look at The Blood of Dawnwalker running on consoles, and there’s good news and slightly less good news wrapped into one video.

Let’s start with the good bit: the PS5 Pro is going to give you the best console version of this game, no contest. But here’s the catch: 60 FPS is staying a PC exclusive. Even Sony’s beefed-up mid-gen console tops out at 40 FPS. Rough for anyone who was hoping their Pro upgrade would finally deliver buttery-smooth combat.

The Blood of Dawnwalker – Official Console Gameplay Trailer

What are the display modes?

The PS5 Pro gets two options:

• Quality: Dynamic 4K, targeting 30 FPS
• Balanced: Dynamic 4K, targeting 40 FPS

From the footage, Quality mode looks properly sharp, so that dynamic resolution scaler is clearly doing a good job staying close to native 4K. We didn’t get a look at Balanced mode in action, but I’d bet the extra frames come at the cost of some visual crispness. That’s usually how it goes.

The base PS5 gets identical modes, though the dynamic resolution is noticeably more aggressive in Quality mode, so expect a softer image than on the Pro. Xbox Series X owners are getting much the same deal, with barely any difference from the PS5 experience. As for Xbox Series S, it’s a no-show in the video entirely, and given it’s the weakest box in the lineup, that silence is a little worrying.

Is 40 FPS on PS5 Pro disappointing? Sure, a bit. But it’s not shocking, either. This is Unreal Engine 5 we’re talking about, and Rebel Wolves is a much smaller studio than the ones with the resources to fully optimise for Sony’s hardware, on top of already steep PC requirements. 40 FPS with cleaner visuals than the base consoles is a fair trade-off, and if you’re after the best console experience going, the Pro is still your pick.

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A few days on from revealing the updated PC system requirements for The Blood of Dawnwalker, the team at Rebel Wolves has now also announced a major change for the launch-day version of the game on consoles. At first, the game was going to launch without a true ‘Performance' mode option on PS5 and Xbox Series X. However, after seeing feedback, the team made the decision to move up its testing plans for 60FPS. 

Originally, The Blood of Dawnwalker was going to launch with two quality modes on console, one that targets 30FPS with the best possible visual settings, and another that targets 40FPS instead, with slightly lower visual settings, such as more aggressive dynamic resolution. However, fans quickly made it known that they wanted a 60FPS option, so Rebel Wolves has swiftly changed its plans.

The studio confirmed that it was already planning a 60FPS performance mode for the game but were not confident that they would be able to fully test it and implement it in time for launch in early September. Due to fan feedback, they decided to move the testing forward, and now, 60FPS will be an option on PS5 / Xbox Series X consoles, after installing the game's day-one patch.

For those who are playing on PC instead, here is a reminder of the PC system requirements for the game:

1080p @ 30 fps (Low preset):

• CPU: Intel Core i5 11400F / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
• RAM: 16GB
• GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580
• VRAM: 6GB or more
• Storage: 60GB SSD
• OS: Windows 10 or later, DirectX 12

1080p @ 60 fps (Medium preset):

• CPU: Intel Core i7 11700K / AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
• RAM: 16GB
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 Super / GTX 1070 Ti / AMD RX 5700 / Intel Arc A750
• VRAM: 8GB or more
• Storage: 60GB SSD
• OS: Windows 10 or later, DirectX 12

1440p @ 60 fps (High preset):

• CPU: Intel Core i7 11700K / AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
• RAM: 16GB
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060 / AMD RX 7600 XT / Intel Arc B580
• VRAM: 8GB or more
• Storage: 60GB SSD
• OS: Windows 10 or later, DirectX 12

2160p @ 60 fps (Ultra preset):

• CPU: Intel Core i7‑12700K / AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• RAM: 16GB
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti / AMD RX 9070
• VRAM: 12GB or more
• Storage: 60GB SSD
• OS: Windows 10 or later, DirectX 12

The Blood of Dawnwalker will launch on the 2nd of September for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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Rebel Wolves surprised fans at Summer Game Fest when it aired a teaser trailer showing The Blood of Dawnwalker protagonist Coen in an entirely different setting. The game itself is set in 14th-century Eastern Europe, but this trailer showed a modern-day courier delivering him a sack of blood. The significance was obvious: the Polish studio aims to create a whole saga centered on Coen. In recent interviews, Rebel Wolves have opened up on their roadmap. Speaking to Eurogamer, Game Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz revealed that part of the reason is to keep the creative juices flowing by jumping across ages and […]

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Polish developer Rebel Wolves has revealed today that their debut game, the action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, is officially gold. That means the physical disc is being printed, though of course, in this day and age, the studio will continue to work on day-one patches and the like up to the launch date of September 3. I suppose this saying will have to be updated if Sony's planned end of PlayStation disc sales from January 2028 goes ahead. Anyway, the gold status effectively confirms there will be no delays. The studio worked quite swiftly on its debut game; Rebel […]

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As a new studio founded by ex-Witcher Alumni, Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco allowed us an intimate four hours with the studio’s inaugural title: The Blood of Dawnwalker. While players may have been initially concerned about being rushed with the story’s thirty-day limit, our experience proved that there’s more than enough content here to enjoy the adventure at your own pace. In The Blood of Dawnwalker, players take on the role of Coen, a perfectly normal human male with a single goal: to save his family from the clutches of an ancient vampire lord named Brencis. Our play session saw […]

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Rebel Wolves has announced an update lowering the PC system requirements for its debut RPG, The Blood of Dawnwalker. The adjustments scale down both the minimum and recommended hardware specifications needed to run the upcoming game at 1080p resolution.

The updated minimum configuration shared by the developer on X now requires an Intel i5-11400F or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, down from the original requirement of an Intel i7-8700K or Ryzen 7 3700X. Graphics hardware requirements dropped from an Nvidia RTX 3050 or GTX 1070 down to a GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580.

Targeting 60FPS at 1080p on the recommended tier now requires an Intel i7-11700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU, changing from the previously stated Intel i5-13600 or Ryzen 9 7900X. Recommended graphics cards have been reduced to an RTX 4060 or a Radeon RX 7600 XT, replacing the previous requirement of an RTX 5060 or an RX 6800 XT. Rebel Wolves noted that updated requirements for alternative configurations will be shared later.

According to the developer, we can expect more detailed system requirements and presets at a later date, after the final optimisation processes are complete.

KitGuru says: It seems the optimisation efforts were worth it, given the updated system specs. Now many more fans will be able to pick up the new game without feat of it not running. 

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With the delay of the Fable reboot to February 2027, The Blood of Dawnwalker is undoubtedly the most anticipated Western-made roleplaying game due in 2026. Despite being a new intellectual property, the debut game from Polish developer Rebel Wolves benefits from a core development team that worked in key roles on CD Projekt RED's masterpiece, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Indeed, the similarities with the award-winning open world RPG are many, but Rebel Wolves also introduced many features and twists that make it arguably even more interesting, at least on paper. Release Date, Platforms, Pricing The foundation of Rebel Wolves was announced […]

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The upcoming third-person action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is now just over three months away from its launch date, and developer Rebel Wolves is already marketing the game through a Game Informer cover story. The magazine went to Warsaw, Poland, to speak with a few key developers from the team, most of whom previously worked on The Witcher III: Wild Hunt at CD Projekt RED. One of the game's distinguishing features is the dual nature of protagonist Coen, who is the titular Dawnwalker, a rare breed of vampire that, after his turning, can still walk in the sunlight during […]

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Just as promised, this week the team at Rebel Wolves revealed more about their new big RPG, Blood of Dawnwalker. The studio, made up of former Witcher developers, will be launching its first big game this Autumn, putting it in direct competition with the Fable reboot.

Blood of Dawnwalker is set to launch on September 4th. The game's director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, told Eurogamer that he is “really confident” in the project.

The game will put players in the shoes of a half-human half-vampire hybrid, on a mission to rescue their family from other vampires within a set 30-game timespan. Players will have to make tough decisions on the fly and beat the in-game clock, offering numerous outcome opportunities for players to explore upon replays.

The game will be releasing for PC and current-gen consoles. While the game is still some ways off from release, the PC system requirements have been outlined:

With its September release date for PC, PS5 and Xbox, the game will be in close contact to Playground Games' long-awaited Fable reboot, which is also scheduled to launch between August and September.

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KitGuru Says: Are you looking forward to The Blood of Dawnwalker? It seems to have an interesting concept, with the whole game built around providing replay value for story completionists.

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During the Road to Launch event, developer Rebel Wolves unveiled detailed PC specifications for their debut game, the highly anticipated fantasy open world action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker. The specs look fairly demanding on paper: the GeForce RTX 5090, the most powerful graphics card on the market, is required to play the game at 4K resolution and 60 frames per second while using the Ultra preset. However, the developers clarified that the following target resolution, frame rate, and presets were calculated without taking into account upscaler and frame generation, which will be supported (including NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR). […]

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Rebel Wolves, a studio made up of former CD Projekt RED developers, is getting ready to launch their debut game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, which sees players step into the shoes of Coen, a human recently turned vampire who retains the ability to walk in sunlight. Today, Rebel Wolves dove into the game by showcasing more of its open-world gameplay, and revealing a new story trailer that is capped off by the reveal of the game's release date, set for September 3, 2026. You can check out the full livestream event to watch Rebel Wolves talk in detail about their […]

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Rebel Wolves' open-world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker has been in the works for some time and will finally make its debut this year on PC and consoles. When this will happen exactly will be revealed next week during a Road to Launch Event, where more information on the game will be shared alongside its release date. The event, which will stream on April 28th at 9:00 AM PDT / 6:00 PM CEST / 5:00 PM BST, will also feature new gameplay, a new story trailer, the PC system requirements, and all the details on the game's editions. "We are getting […]

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