BLOOD MAGIC

Rebel Wolves has legendary RPGs in its veins, and the studio's debut game, THE BLOOD OF DAWNWALKER, looks set to take the genre to new heights

- Robert Jones

If you were to tell me that the game director of the now legendary single-player open-world dark fantasy actionRPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, had decided to leave CD Projekt, establish a new studio, and then create his own original singleplayer open-world dark fantasy action-RPG, then you'd have my attention. But if you told me he was doing that with a team of passionate, experienced, creatively free developers who, together, were building on that storied legacy by evolving the genre in some genuinely fresh, exciting ways, then you'd find me flying out to Warsaw, Poland, to speak with Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, along with other key game developers, posthaste. And what I discovered at Rebel Wolves was one the most exciting new virtual worlds in gaming.

EMERGING FROM SHADOW Let’s cut to the quick. The Blood of Dawnwalker is the first game in a new series (the Dawnwalker saga), and it is a triple-A open-world action-RPG set in medieval Europe but with a supernatural twist - you play as Coen, a half-human, half-vampire being known as the Dawnwalker. This game takes place in our world, but one where myths and legends exist despite the fact that most people don't know about them or believe in them. It is a narrative-focused dark fantasy RPG with third-person perspective camera, Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine, and a world size that is equivalent to some of the God of War or Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.