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Overview

The Blood of Dawnwalker is the first chapter of a planned series Rebel Wolves calls the Dawnwalker Saga. The studio has said it planned several games from the start rather than adding a series framing after the fact, and that knowing where the arc goes made it easier to seed hooks in the first game.

This Game Is Self-Contained

The studio has been direct that the first entry resolves. The Blood of Dawnwalker is set entirely in the 14th century, and Coen's feud with Brencis reaches a definitive conclusion shaped by the player's choices. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has stated that each installment will be a standalone game with its own story, without narrative cliffhangers, unresolved plot threads or time travel. Narrative director Jakub Szamalek has added that attentive players will still find breadcrumbs relating to the overarching plot.

The Present-Day Teaser

At Summer Game Fest on June 5, 2026, the studio closed its showing with a separate CGI teaser set in the present day. It shows a delivery person handing a box of blood sachets to an ailing vampire, with Coen alive in a modern setting roughly six centuries after the events of this game. Tomaszkiewicz has since clarified that the scene is a post-credits sequence in The Blood of Dawnwalker itself rather than a trailer for an announced sequel.

Where the Series Goes

Rebel Wolves has described later entries as spanning different eras, locations and cultures, with new antagonists, new stories and different local legends and creatures of the night, all anchored to Coen as the recurring protagonist. Nothing beyond that framing has been announced: no second game has been named, dated or given a platform list.

Save Carry-Over

Bandai Namco has confirmed that there will be an option to carry a save from the first game forward, so decisions made in The Blood of Dawnwalker can be taken into account by later entries. The publisher stated this directly when asked to clarify comments the game director had made about save data. No detail has been given about which choices are tracked or how they are surfaced.

What This Is Not

Save carry-over into future games is not the same thing as a new game plus mode inside this one, and no such mode has been confirmed. Nothing about the saga framing changes what ships on September 3, 2026: a single-player campaign with its own ending. See 30-Day Cycle for how those endings are reached.