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A new big-budget role-playing game calledThe Blood of Dawnwalkerwill be revealed on January 13. The upcoming RPG is in development at Rebel Wolves, withBandai Namcohandling the publishing.
Rebel Wolves is a Polish studio founded in 2022 by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, a CD Projekt Red veteran who directedThe Witcher 3: Wild Huntand worked on the prior two entries in the hit series, in addition to serving as head of production onCyberpunk 2077, among other projects. Joining him at the company are several otherThe Witcherveterans, including art director Bartlomiej Gawel, animation director Tamara Zawada, and narrative director Jakub Szamalek.Rebel Wolves' first game was officially announced asDawnwalkerin January 2024.
11 months later, publisher Bandai Namco shared a brief promo video that clarifies the game’s full title will actually beThe Blood of Dawnwalker. The teaser ends with the promise that the upcoming project will be fully revealed during a live-streamed event scheduled to kick off on January 13, at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 10pm CET.The Blood of Dawnwalkershould hencehelp Bandai Namco start 2025 with a bang, joining a growing list of the Japanese publisher’s games that are planned to be revealed or launched early next year.
As for what exactly fans can expect on January 13,The Blood of Dawnwalkeris being officially described as adark fantasy action RPG from formerThe Witcher 3developers. The game is being developed for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Rebel Wolves is making it in Unreal Engine 5, and says that the game will have a strong story and narrative focus, not unlike CDPR’s projects. The RPG’s original announcement described it as a “narrative sandbox” experience, albeit without elaborating on the matter. It also confirmed that the game will have a triple-A budget. The RPG’s January 2025 reveal event will be live-streamed onThe Blood of Dawnwalker’s official Twitch channel.
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The Blood of Dawnwalkerwill be asingle-player RPGthat’s been envisioned as the first entry in a new dark fantasy franchise. The few promotional materials that Rebel Wolves shared to date suggest that the game will be set in a world based on medieval Europe. Werewolves, vampires, or both will seemingly have a place in the RPG’s lore. The newly shared video teaser includes a tagline saying “the world needs what it fears,” suggestingThe Blood of Dawnwalkermay have some thematic overlap withThe Witcher.
According to LinkedIn data, Rebel Wolves presently employs just over 100 people. Even with further growth, this relatively small team (by AAA standards) is presumably operating on at least a five-year development cycle, which is nowadays the norm in triple-A development. As a result,The Blood of Dawnwalkerseems unlikely to hit the market until early 2027.
