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'The Blood of Dawnwalker' Sequel May Remove This Controversial Feature—Here's Why

Blood of Dawnwalker's sequel may be removing one of the most controversial features of the original game.

Player One · Sep 21

Good reviews are a 'great relief,' says Blood of Dawnwalker director, as former CD Projekt coworkers line up to offer congratulations

Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG is holding an aggregate 83 score on Metacritic.

PC Gamer · Sep 1

The Blood of Dawnwalker creative director says all those glowing reviews are a "great relief" as the vampire ARPG's Metacritic score nearly matches The Witcher

Not bad, not bad

GamesRadar · Sep 1

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In the dark fantasy world of The Blood of Dawnwalker, even the vampires are morally grey: 'They are complex, and they are not one dimensional'

You can't judge a book by its enormous, jutting fangs.

PC Gamer · May 6

Blood of Dawnwalker takes after Baldur's Gate 3's "freedom of choice" and RPG classic Gothic's small but dense world design

"I feel tired with games that are way too big"

GamesRadar · May 5

The Blood of Dawnwalker director says the game's time limit system won't 'punish' players — 'You’ll be able to complete a majority of the game before the time runs out'

Rebel Wolves CEO and The Blood of Dawnwalker director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has said players don't need to worry about the game's time-limit mechanic and will have plenty of time to explore.

TechRadar · Apr 30

The Blood of Dawnwalker lets you complete areas in any order, kill any NPCs you like, and still complete the game after failing every quest: 'We're giving even more freedom to players'

"We've structured the game in a way where, after the prologue, you can do basically whatever you want."

PC Gamer · Apr 28

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The Blood of Dawnwalker is one of the most ambitious games of 2026, driven by Rebel Wolves' desire to "get a few steps closer to pen-and-paper RPGs"

The Blood of Dawnwalker is one of the most ambitious games of 2026, driven by a desire for Rebel Wolves to reconnect with why we fell in love with RPGs in the first place

GamesRadar · Jan 5

"We are more effective than bigger teams": Ahead of Blood of Dawnwalker's release next year, Rebel Wolves lead says he doesn't want the studio to grow

"Because we don't have so many people, people feel responsible for some parts of the game, and feel ownership of it. And I think that this is the most important thing"

GamesRadar · Nov 20, 2025

The Blood of Dawnwalker lead say the medieval vampire RPG is a "narrative sandbox" with quests that "can be completed in any order, skipped entirely, or even never discovered at all"

You're a real vampire now

GamesRadar · Aug 20, 2025

Now that I know The Blood of Dawnwalker is a vampire game that's not about Doing The Right Thing as a Very Special Boy, 2026 can't come soon enough

Opinion | Dawnwalker might fix the most boring thing about vampire RPGs: morality in immortality

GamesRadar · Jun 25, 2025

The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist is "equally engaging, fun, and meaningful to play" in both his human and vampire forms, say the ex-Witcher 3 devs behind the RPG

The former CD Projekt Red leads are cookin'

GamesRadar · Jun 11, 2025

Ex Witcher 3 devs "studied medieval ﬁghting styles and even have a few trained swordsmen" to really nail Blood of Dawnwalker's melee combat

Combat in Rebel Wolves' upcoming vampire RPG isn't just teeth in necks

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

Blood of Dawnwalker director says the vampire RPG's story is so non-linear that "you can align with the human rebellion or ﬁnish the game without ever meeting them”

The Blood of Dawnwalker director promises a true “narrative sandbox” for Vampire RPG fans.

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

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GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

Ex-Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker features "combat that feels authentic" because they "studied medieval ﬁghting styles and even have a few trained swordsmen on the team"

It's still "approachable and fun"

GamesRadar · Mar 9, 2025

The Witcher 3 lead says "not many games" were trying to match the RPG back in 2015, and that meant "there was a risk" to making it in the first place

CDPR's big risk paid off

GamesRadar · Mar 9, 2025

The Witcher 3 dev says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker wants to challenge genre conventions, but only if "we're changing them to actually achieve some goal"

"Sometimes even very mild changes can be extremely controversial to people"

GamesRadar · Feb 23, 2025

Former CDPR lead says "experimental" new open world vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker will "push the genre forward" a lot like The Witcher 3: "The risk is worth the reward"

Exclusive: 10 years after The Witcher 3 broke new ground in open-world game design, Rebel Wolves hopes to do the same with The Blood of Dawnwa

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GamesRadar · Feb 22, 2025

Blood of Dawnwalker devs explain how the vampire RPG's "narrative sandbox" builds on what they were "known for crafting" in games like The Witcher 3

Blood of the Dawnwaller is very much carrying The Witcher 3's torch

GamesRadar · Feb 21, 2025

Former Witcher 3 lead says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker has a smaller open world because "it feels more like you actually know the place" compared to "behemoths"

Rebel Wolves creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz says smaller open worlds can be explored "calmly and more relaxed"

GamesRadar · Feb 19, 2025

Ex-Witcher 3 lead says CDPR initially worried the RPG's massive story didn't fit "the play style of an open world game"

The Blood of Dawnwalker creative director says he's familiar with "risk" having worked on The Witcher 3

PC Gamer · Feb 17, 2025

The new game from The Witcher 3's director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off 'really important NPCs'

I choose to persist in the doomed world I've created, thanks.

GamesRadar · Feb 15, 2025

The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG gives you the freedom "to kill off a lot of NPCs, and a lot of them can be really important NPCs"

Blood of Dawnwalker lets you really live out the vampiric fantasy

GamesRadar · Feb 14, 2025

Ex-CDPR devs' new open-world vampire RPG is aiming for "the quality level of The Witcher 3," but since it's a smaller studio, only about a 30-40 hour campaign

The Blood of Dawnwalker's director doesn't care if you call it AA, AAA, or AAAA

GamesRadar · Feb 14, 2025

"I really hate how we did it": The Witcher 3 quest lead says there are parts of the iconic RPG he still wishes he could "time travel and fix"

Blood of Dawnwalker creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz has some regrets from his time at CDPR

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