‘Blood of Dawnwalker’ Gameplay Reveals Fight, Vampiric Powers

The Witcher 3 turned 10 years previous again in Could, and if you happen to’ve been hoping for an RPG prefer it, that’s the place Blood of Dawnwalker may are available in. The fantasy-RPG from Insurgent Wolves—made up of CD Projekt Crimson alums deeply concerned with each Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077—is a methods out, however that’s not stopping the studio from exhibiting off a few of its methods and its tackle being half-vampire.

Plotwise, the sport is about in a fictional 14th century medieval Europe and stars Coen, who’s been lately became a vampire/human hybrid. He’s acquired 30 days and nights to save lots of his household, which requires making selections all through his journey and ultimately dethroning the vampire lords and their chief Brencis. Regardless of the time restrict, Bloodwalker is open-world, and time solely strikes ahead throughout particular, clearly telegraphed missions. However a faceoff with Brencis is coming ultimately, and Coen get both go that closing battle alone or with the assistance of allies he makes good with.

Like different RPGs, Blood of Dawnwalker is usually centered on fight, which entails melee weapons and magic. Gamers use melee weapons (or their claws at night time) to assault in instructions the place enemies aren’t blocking or parrying, whereas magical hexes drain Coen’s well being and let him do feats like burning enemies’ blood. In response to design director Daniel Sadowski, well being doesn’t regenerate through the day, so gamers need to replenish by consuming meals and may put ability factors into talents that scale back how a lot well being will get drained whereas casting hexes.

At night time, Coen can use vampire talents that supply extra stealth capabilities, scope out areas, and get world wide in additional fascinating methods. Utilizing his powers requires blood, and meaning consuming folks, or animals and “different creatures” if you happen to like. Within the footage above, Sadowski talks up the sport’s freedom and “narrative sandbox,” which permits gamers to sort out quests how and each time they like. This open-endedness was a giant promoting level of the Witcher video games, and one thing Insurgent Wolves is clearly leaning because it develops the primary in what it hopes is the beginning of a rival fantasy franchise.

We’ll see how that fares when Blood of Dawnwalker releases in 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S.

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