How long is The Blood of Dawnwalker? Producer comments on game duration

Scheduled for release in September this year, The Blood of Dawnwalker will be a new open-world RPG that maintains the tradition of titles like The Witcher 3, with which it shares the same director. And, precisely for this reason, many may be wondering how much time it will take to reach the end of the story.

This question was answered by creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz in a question and answer session held after the recent event held by the Rebel Wolves studio. According to him, internal tests showed that the adventure will require the investment of at least 50 hours until the credits roll.

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“It’s funny, because when we started working on it, we planned for 40 hours“, he explained to the website Gaming Bolt. “Now, the average is around 50 hours, but it depends on the level of difficulty you play, how selective you are, how much you explore and how much you improve your equipment”, he added.

The Blood of Dawnwalker has a lot of optional content

Tomaszkiewicz also explained that The Blood of Dawnwalker contains a lot of optional content, which allows it to be significantly extended. According to him, some of the most caring people who work for Rebel Wolves they only reached the end of the adventure with more than 70 hours of gameplay.

Even those who finish the title once are not guaranteed to see everything its plot has to offer. During the game’s promotion, the studio emphasized that one of its focuses was on delivering choices that really have an impact on the narrative and change many of its elements.

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So whoever finishes The Blood of Dawnwalker There are plenty of reasons to restart your story and, at decisive moments, take different directions from the past. Among the options offered is to transform the protagonist Coen into an evil person who succumbed to his thirst for blood.

In The Blood of Dawnwalker, the protagonist is presented as a man who, in search of revenge, decides to use the power of vampires against them — a decision that will exact a great price. The game hits stores on September 3rd and is already on pre-sale for R$303.50 on Steam, or a hefty R$399.90 on Xbox and PlayStation — a value that jumps to R$455.90 in the Eclipse edition for consoles.

Source: Gaming Bolt