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When Rebel Wolves teased its first venture again in 2022, PC Gamer’s Rich Stanton stated it gave him “sturdy vampire vibes.” When the studio revealed the sport’s title and a few new idea artwork in 2024, I stated it gave me “very sturdy vampire vibes.” Today we acquired a have a look at Dawnwalker’s debut cinematic trailer, and it pleases me significantly to say, we have been proper.
The Blood of Dawnwalker, as the sport is now referred to as, is about in 14th century Europe, amidst relentless warfare and the Black Death—not a good time for humanity. Sensing alternative, the vampires make their transfer to take over, main different “creatures of the night time” to do the identical. One of these creatures is you, a younger man named Coen who’s been changed into a Dawnwalker, however who might not be prepared to totally embrace the life-style.
“Fight to your humanity or embrace the cursed powers to avoid wasting your loved ones,” the web site at dawnwalkergame.com says. “Whatever your alternative, the query stands: is your soul well worth the lives of these you like?”
Ah, however that does not essentially imply all vampires are all unhealthy: “Face your foes—be they human, monster, or the ticking clock itself. But keep in mind—the true evil could bask within the solar’s mild, and probably the most loyal of allies might lurk underneath the duvet of night time.”
Rebel Wolves is headed up by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who beforehand served as sport director on The Witcher 3 and head of manufacturing on Cyberpunk 20777—and earlier than that, as lead quest designer on The Witcher 2 and story designer on The Witcher. That background actually reveals via on this cinematic, which might very simply be a Witcher trailer; Coen himself seems to be primarily a younger Geralt, granted nice powers via disagreeable supernatural rituals that robbed him of a lot of his humanity—or, possibly not!
The implied ethical ambiguity—evil within the daylight, associates within the darkness—is clearly not distinctive to The Witcher however definitely a central a part of it: One of Geralt’s greatest associates, recall, is a better vampire who would not be in any respect misplaced munching on the poor troopers on this video. Even the road “the world wants what it fears” is a knockoff of Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy tales, set in a realm that wants witchers however certain would not like ’em.
But even when The Blood of Dawnwalker would not seem like it should set new requirements for unique concepts, I dig the idea and I’m desperate to be taught extra about the way it’s really going to play. For that, nonetheless, we’ll have to attend: Rebel Wolves stated in a reveal livestream immediately {that a} gameplay reveal will occur someday this summer time.
