The Blood of Dawnwalker Reviews
Although it has some flaws in combat, The Blood of Dawnwalker delivers a solid and characterful experience. Its time management system, the freedom to explore, and the choices that shape Coen's journey are its greatest strengths and make Rebel Wolves' RPG stand out from other games in the genre.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
A new and intriguing action RPG that doesn's stray far away from The Witcher III's template, but delivers an engaging narrative experience full of memorable characters in a fascinating setting.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Blood of Dawnwalker has an interesting core, but it throws too many obstacles in your way before you can get to it. Rebel Wolves builds a rich universe with many stories worth discovering, but its clunky mechanics and various issues with its main systems are hard to ignore.
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A stellar opening bite from Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker demonstrates it can claw and battle with the toughest of the vrakhir. While it's not quite at the level of the very best in the genre, it delivers a superb open world adventure, filled with intrigue and compelling combat. Give it enough time to feed and this Dawnwalker could grow into a titan, and I can't wait to see what blood feast will come next.
If you like games like The Witcher 3 or Elden Ring, Blood of the Dawnwalker is a must-play experience.
If you're willing to overlook the gameplay uncertainties in order to be captivated by a mature, complex, and masterfully orchestrated narrative, Blood of Dawnwalker is an adventure you absolutely cannot miss.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Blood of Dawnwalker is an ambitious, choice-driven vampire RPG with an intricately connected world, satisfying directional combat, and meaningful player agency throughout most of its journey.
While the game may have suffered slightly from a slow narrative pace and some performance and combat issues, it's undeniably a fun experience throughout.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
The Blood of the Dawnwalker is a familiar yet inviting dark high-fantasy world inlaid with gameplay systems that stand out among the action-RPG pack. While it does have its setbacks, the overall product was a solid first impression that left me itching for more.
The Blood of Dawnwalker puts a fresh spin on the open world RPG by making every decision matter against a 30 day countdown. With a dark fantasy world to explore, human and vampire abilities to master, and choices involving allies, equipment, and the fight against the vampires, Coen's journey challenges players to decide what truly matters when saving their family is the priority. Rather than encouraging players to complete every side quest before progressing, the game makes time itself part of the challenge, creating an adventure where preparation must be balanced against the consequences of waiting.
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a dark fantasy action RPG in which you play as a human by day and a vampire by night. The combat feels great, and each fighting style offers a distinct experience. Furthermore, your choices have genuine consequences—quests won’t simply wait for you. If you want to experience everything the game has to offer, you will need to play through it multiple times.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Playing The Blood of Dawnwalker is like attending a live rock concert: it's often uncomfortable, the music is sloppy, it's incredibly loud, but the energy and passion knock the walls down.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Blood of Dawnwalker has a lot to offer to anyone looking for the dark side of RPGs and honoring the “Rebel” in the studio’s name, as it truly rebels against triple A development.
Review in Greek | Read full review
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a dark open world action RPG where vampirism, family and relentless passage of time collide. With a time limit, a dynamic day & night system, engaging combat, meaningful exploration, memorable characters and a world filled with vampire lore and a great story, the game offers a refreshing take on the genre. The Blood of Dawnwalker, in the end, succeeds in creating a compelling world where every choice matters and the line between humanity and monstrosity is never quite clear.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker is an ambitious vampire RPG that stands out thanks to its 30-day time limit, the tension between humanity and vampirism, and systems that attempt to make your choices matter. Unfortunately, repetitive combat, camera issues, limited enemy variety and an inconsistent open-world design prevent the game from reaching its full potential. Still, there is a genuinely interesting RPG underneath those problems, especially for players who enjoy games that force them to accept that they cannot see and complete everything in a single playthrough.
In spite of the discrepancies between what the developers appeared to want this game to be and what actually made it to store shelves, The Blood of Dawnwalker is a pretty good time. The vision is present throughout the game and the obvious shortcomings often feel far more like a material consideration than outright mistakes.
If you enjoy Kingdom Come: Deliverance and The Witcher, and appreciate an RPG that expects you to learn its systems with relatively little hand-holding, Dawnwalker is worth your time. It certainly earned mine.
An incredible debut from Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker delivers a refreshing twist on open-world RPGs with its dynamic day/night mechanics and compelling time-management system. Despite rough UI edges and a missing stealth system, its consequence-driven dark storytelling and punchy combat make it a must-play shot in the arm for the vampire genre.
Rebel Wolves doesn't need to prove that it can make an RPG. *The Blood of Dawnwalker* already proves it.
Review in Greek | Read full review
The Blood of Dawnwalker feels special in how it makes what could have been repetitive open world filler feel like core steps of a wider and more overarching narrative.