The Blood of Dawnwalker Wiki — Guides, Walkthrough
Play Coen, a half-human half-vampire Dawnwalker, and tear through 14th-century Vale Sangora to save your family from the vampire lord Brencis. You get 30 in-game days: fight with steel and diplomacy by day, hunt with claws and vampiric traversal by night. Every hour you spend is an hour you can never take back.
- Launches Sep 3, 2026
- Updated Sep 2026
- 30-Day Time Limit
- 8 Time Blocks Per Day
- 50-70h Full Playthrough
Developer
Rebel Wolves
Release
Sep 3, 2026
Platforms
PC, PS5, Xbox
Your The Blood of Dawnwalker Journey
Beginner Guide
Your first night as a Dawnwalker: controls, how to draw your sword, what actually burns time, and the early mistakes that cost you days you cannot get back.
2Time & 30-Day Planning
How the eight blocks per day and night work, which actions consume time, and a route that clears the story before the 30-day clock runs out.
3Combat & Abilities
Directional parry and swordplay by day, claws, stealth and wall-climbing by night, plus which vampiric abilities to unlock first.
4Choices, Romance & Endings
Companions, romance options and the branching decisions that quietly rewrite who lives, who turns, and how your saga ends.
What is The Blood of Dawnwalker?
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a single-player dark fantasy action RPG from Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developers, published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is set in Vale Sangora, a fictional 14th-century Carpathian valley built on Hungarian, Romanian and Slavic folklore, and it puts you in the boots of Coen, a Dawnwalker caught between humanity and the blood.
What makes it different is the clock. Coen has 30 in-game days to save his family, and each day and night is split into eight blocks that only story-advancing actions spend, so exploring is free but committing is not. Daylight favours conversation, investigation and disciplined swordplay with directional blocking; night unlocks vampiric strength, claws, climbing and predatory stealth. Every quest you take is a quest you are choosing over another.
- Developer
- Rebel Wolves
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Platform
- PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
- Genre
- Dark Fantasy Action RPG
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Release Date
- September 3, 2026
- Full Playthrough
- 50-70 Hours
- In-Game Deadline
- 30 Days
- Time Blocks
- 8 Per Day / Night
- Difficulty Levels
- 4
The Blood of Dawnwalker searches routed to useful pages
The Blood of Dawnwalker walkthrough
Full route through Vale Sangora, prologue to ending.
How long to beat
Rebel Wolves estimates 50-70 hours for a full playthrough.
Controls
Button mapping for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Combat guide
Four-direction attacks and blocks, perfect parries, omni-block.
Abilities guide
Swordmastery, witchcraft and vampire skill trees.
Interactive map
Locations, quests, NPCs, bosses and item markers.
Trophy guide
47 offline trophies, 1 platinum, no online trophies.
Character customization
No character creator announced; you play Coen.
Mods
Time-limit, HUD and day/night mods the community asks for.
Combat & abilities
Day and night combat
Sword and hex magic as a human by day; claws, bite and shadowstep as a vampire at night.
Abilities and skill trees
Swordmastery, witchcraft and vampire trees — and the corruption that unlocks the stronger vampire perks.
How to bring your sword out
Drawing your weapon and swapping between claws and steel, in either form.
The 30-day clock
Know where the loot comes from before you spend a block on it
Loot system
How loot is spread across enemy drops, chests, barrels and world containers.
Sangoran Wayfarer's Armour Set
A preorder and special-edition early unlock; Bandai Namco says it can also be obtained later through normal progression.
Character customization
No character creator has been announced — armor sets are how you change how Coen looks.
Interactive map
Track locations, quests, NPCs, boss encounters and important items.
Plan the run you actually intend to finish
Trophy guide
47 offline trophies (1 platinum, 3 gold, 5 silver, 38 bronze), 0 online, 19 marked missable.
How long to beat
50-70 hours for a full playthrough, around 50 on average, per Rebel Wolves' own playtests.
Walkthrough
The story route, quest by quest, with the time cost called out.
Mods
What PC players are modding first — the 30-day timer, FOV and HUD, day/night control.
Guide library
The Blood of Dawnwalker Walkthrough
The full route through Vale Sangora: the prologue, weakening Brencis's hold on the valley, and the quests that spend your 30 days.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Time Mechanic
Time is a currency, not a clock. You hold eight blocks per day-night cycle, and only quests, key dialogue and perk upgrades spend them.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Combat Guide
Attacks and blocks resolve in four directions. Perfect blocks cost no stamina and stagger enemies; omni-block automates it for more stamina.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Romance Options
Three romanceable characters — Anca, Lacra and Crake. Each mostly comes down to following their questline, and Coen can romance all three.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Trophy Guide
47 offline trophies with no online list and no New Game+. One trophy requires a full clear on Duelist difficulty; keep saves for the endings.
The Blood of Dawnwalker Mods
The most requested mods target the 30-day clock, FOV and HUD tweaks, and manual day/night control while script extenders are still in development.
Ready to Master The Blood of Dawnwalker?
From your first blocked strike in Vale Sangora to the last night before the deadline, our community wiki covers the time system, combat, romances, loot and every trophy on the list.