The Blood of Dawnwalker

A horror RPG with novel ideas of its own, even if it doesn’t always have the courage to follow them through.

CD Projekt Red alumni create a familiar dark fantasy adventure, but one with bold and provocative ideas of its own, that's mostly, enormously successful. Read more

This impressive, bloody cocktail is one of the year’s best open-world RPGs.

Just like with Star Wars Zero Company and Halo: Campaign Evolved, The Blood of Dawnwalker runs on Unreal Engine 5, and has been shockingly free of technical problems. The game doesn't have the same issues with crashing and stuttering that Zero Company has, and scales down a lot better than Halo: Campaign Evolved does, although I would still avoid running it on something like a handheld gaming PC.

The Blood of Dawnwalker will be released on Sept. 2 or Sept. 3 depending on your time zone. Here's what time you can play on PC and consoles.