After four hours playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, I've seen combat, romance, intrigue - it's got the makings of being 2026's breakout RPG

After playing four hours of "The Blood of Dawnwalker," a preview suggests it has the potential to be 2025's breakout RPG. The game, led by former The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and his new studio Rebel Wolves, features a time limit mechanic where the protagonist, Coen, has 30 in-game days and nights to rescue his family. Time only progresses when the player makes a choice that advances a quest, ensuring that not everything can be done in a single playthrough. The preview describes a prologue section where the author chose to save their mother from a predetermined fate, leading to an unexpected romance with a healer named Anca. The author notes that the time limit created a sense of pressure and forced them to be very selective about their actions, a feeling they rarely experience in other RPGs where the world waits for the player.