Rebel Wolves confirms Dawnwalker as title of its debut game

Former CD Projekt RED members respond to rumors

Marco Wutz | Jan 16, 2024

Rebel Wolves confirms Dawnwalker as title of its debut game /

Polish development studio Rebel Wolves has responded to rumors surrounding its upcoming narrative-focused dark fantasy RPG, confirming that the game is called Dawnwalker.

“Usually we don't comment on rumors. However, since we've heard something through the grapevine... Yes, we are working on Dawnwalker,” the company stated on social media.

It included a piece of concept art with the announcement, which shows a sword-wielding figure with claw-like hands that either emerges from a shadowy fog or is turning to dust. Crimson and black dominate the piece, though some yellow symbols above the character’s head stand out. They show scales stylized as a cross with the sun and the moon on either side – the title, the character, and the symbolism seem to be pointing towards vampires (or something like them) being involved.

Dawnwalker concept art showing a sword-wielding figure with claw-like hands that either emerges from a shadowy fog. — The first piece of concept art for Dawnwalker shown in public / Rebel Wolves

Since most of the brains behind the new title were likely deeply involved with The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, the bloodsuckers must have been on their mind when coming up with ideas for their debut title as a studio, though that may be reading into things too much.

Founded by creatives that split off from CD Projekt RED, the studio behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, in 2022, Rebel Wolves has been very quiet and vague about its project other than emphasizing a focus on the narrative aspects as opposed to sheer scale of the world. It seems to be in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S and has a triple-A budget – largely thanks to a strategic investment by NetEase Games, one of China’s biggest gaming companies.

Rebel Wolves recently lured another high-profile creative over to its side from CDPR, hiring Cyberpunk 2077’s quest design director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz to be the creative director for Dawnwalker.

Published Jan 16, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg