Summary
- AAA dark fantasy action RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker will have its full-fledged reveal on January 13, just over a year following its original announcement.
- The Blood of Dawnwalker is the first title from Rebel Wolves, a studio comprised of some CDPR veterans.
A new big-budget role-playing game called The Blood of Dawnwalker will be revealed on January 13. The upcoming RPG is in development at Rebel Wolves, with Bandai Namco handling the publishing.
Rebel Wolves is a Polish studio founded in 2022 by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, a CD Projekt Red veteran who directed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and worked on the prior two entries in the hit series, in addition to serving as head of production on Cyberpunk 2077, among other projects. Joining him at the company are several other The Witcher veterans, including art director Bartlomiej Gawel, animation director Tamara Zawada, and narrative director Jakub Szamalek. Rebel Wolves’ first game was officially announced as Dawnwalker in January 2024.
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11 months later, publisher Bandai Namco shared a brief promo video that clarifies the game’s full title will actually be The 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 Dawnwalker should hence help 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 Dawnwalker is being officially described as a dark fantasy action RPG from former The Witcher 3 developers. 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 on The Blood of Dawnwalker‘s official Twitch channel.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Reveal Event Date and Time
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Date |
Time |
Time Zone |
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January 13 |
1pm |
PST |
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4pm |
EST |
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10pm |
CET |
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January 14 |
6am |
JST |
The Blood of Dawnwalker will be a single-player RPG that’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,” suggesting The Blood of Dawnwalker may have some thematic overlap with The 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 Dawnwalker seems unlikely to hit the market until early 2027.
Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Date Founded
- March 31, 2006
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Parent Company
- Namco Bandai