Insurgent Wolves’ The Blood of Dawnwalker was lastly revealed final month with a storyline targeted on vampiric powers. Its gameplay will likely be showcased this Summer time, however there’s a confirmed 30-day and 30-night time restrict, which gained’t rush the participant (someway). No matter how that works, you may anticipate a roughly 30 to 40-hour marketing campaign – fairly the distinction to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which the studio’s builders are veterans of.
Inventive director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz additionally spoke to GamesRadar concerning the stage of high quality the studio goals for. “When it comes to high quality, we undoubtedly take a look at AAA, as a result of that is the place we’re coming from, the standard stage of The Witcher 3. Positively, our video games will not be as large by way of the quantity of content material and gameplay hours. We’re a smaller studio, and that is our first challenge, so we undoubtedly are constructing one thing smaller. However we wish to construct one thing as sturdy by way of high quality, perhaps a bit shorter.
“Evaluating one thing to a behemoth like The Witcher, which we aimed for 100+ hours, however I feel lots of people performed 200, 300 hours, is insane,” Tomaszkiewicz added. “If dimension is your measure, then sure, it’s not the dimensions of a AAA like The Witcher. However I don’t know if the dimensions is the measure, to be sincere as a result of there are AAA video games like Name of Responsibility that aren’t 100+ hours gameplay campaigns. And I don’t know if anybody would name them AA or indie.”
Set in Vale Sangora throughout the Carpathian Mountains, The Blood of Dawnwalker is about Coen, who transforms right into a vampire and seeks to save lots of his household. He runs afoul of Brencis, who controls the area, however Coen isn’t positioned as an overpowered protagonist. There’s additionally no over-the-top magic, although you may nonetheless make the most of some highly effective vampiric abilities to tear enemies aside.
The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn’t have a launch date, however it’s in improvement for Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, and PC. Keep tuned for extra particulars and updates.
