It has been virtually precisely a yr for the reason that unveiling of Dawnwalker – the brand new darkish fantasy action-RPG from Insurgent Wolves. And in case you’ve been desperate to be taught extra – which might be fully comprehensible, given the studio is shaped by a lot of ex-CD Projekt workers, together with Witcher 3 sport director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz – immediately’s your fortunate day. Writer Namco Bandai has now given a primary take a look at Dawnwalker’s world in a four-minute cinematic trailer.
Insurgent Wolves’ debut sport is now formally titled The Blood of Dawnwalker, and is described as the primary chapter in a “brand-new role-playing saga”. It is single-player and open-world, with a “sturdy deal with story and narrative”, casting gamers as Coen – a “younger man became a Dawnwalker, without end treading the road between the world of day and the realm of evening”.
All this unfolds in a 14th century Europe nonetheless reeling from the Black Demise – a “second of weak point” for a decimated humanity that provides the world’s long-hidden vampires an opporunity to step out and seize management, with different creatures of the evening following their lead. “Legends flip into actuality, and historical past as we all know it should by no means be the identical.”
There’s not an enormous quantity of further element to be shared proper now, however Bandai Namco says gamers might want to use their abilities – combining “vampiric power with human resolve” – as they embark on a quest to avoid wasting those they love. “Face your foes – be they human, monster, or the ticking clock itself,” the writer concludes. “However bear in mind – the actual evil could bask within the solar’s mild, and probably the most loyal of allies may lurk underneath the quilt of evening.”
Beforehand, Insurgent Wolves CEO Tomaszkiewicz – who additionally served as a secondary director on Cyberpunk 2077 whereas at CD Projekt – prompt The Blood of Dawnwalker would not “be as gigantic as The Witcher” (as an alternative coming in at across the dimension of The Witcher 3‘s Blood and Wine enlargement) however that it may properly have a “better” variety of quests. Whether or not issues have modified since then is not recognized, however immediately’s cinematic reveal trailer ends with the promise that extra data will probably be shared this “summer time”.
Alongside Tomaszkiewicz, Insurgent Wolves counts former CD Projekt scribe Jakub Szamałek as its narrative director and major author, with different staff members together with design director Daniel Sadowski, animation director Tamara Zawada, artwork director Bartłomiej Gaweł, CFO Michał Boryka, and studio head Robert Murzynowski – who’ve collectively labored on video games akin to Cyberpunk, Thronebreaker, Shadow Warrior 2, and The Witcher sequence.
