The Blood of Dawnwalker is the debut project from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and comprised of other CDPR alums, and apparently the project was only possible at a smaller studio with less red tape.
Dawnwalker quickly clawed its way to the top of my list of most anticipated games with its stunning reveal trailer from earlier this month.
The vibes are deliciously dark with a story about a young man who gets turned into a Dawnwalker, a hybrid of human and vampire.
There's a sense of scope that belies the relatively small studio making the thing, and the vampires actually look genuinely scary.
The only thing I'm still hesitant about is the gameplay, but that's solely because we've hardly seen any of it. Anyway, Tomaszkiewicz told PC Gamer that he left CDPR to start Rebel Wolves and make Dawnwalker because he wanted to make something "unique." "Of course, we have a huge love of RPG games, and what has been done before in the past," he said. "[But] I feel that those things, those rules of RPG games, can be expanded and evolved.