The Blood of Dawnwalker will be an RPG of The Witcher 3 quality, but with shorter campaign. We learned the exact numbers
The creative director of The Blood of Dawnwalker said that the game will be of the same quality as The Witcher 3. However, a smaller scale will be maintained.
It's been over a month since the announcement of The Blood of Dawnwalker, but the developers from Rebel Wolves studio don't let us forget about their game and share new information from time to time. This time we learned about the planned length of the game and the quality that the developers are aiming for.
The quality of The Witcher 3, but a bit shorter
The game's creative director, Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, who previously worked as the lead quest designer for The Witcher 3, recently spoke with GamesRadar+. At one point, he was asked about the developing AA games segment, which is located between indie and AAA. In response, the developer made it clear that he is not interested in categorizing The Blood of Dawnwalker. He just want to deliver the highest quality game, albeit on a slightly smaller scale.
In terms of quality, we definitely look at AAA, because this is where we are coming from, the quality level of The Witcher 3. Definitely, our games are not as huge in terms of amount of content and gameplay hours - we are a smaller studio, this is our first project, so we definitely are building something smaller. But we want to build something as robust in terms of quality, maybe a bit shorter.
Tomaszkiewicz directly admitted that the main story of The Blood of Dawnwalker will take about 30-40 hours. So if you're tired of massive titles that take hundreds of hours, you should be pleased with this news.
Comparing something to a behemoth like The Witcher, which we aimed for 100+ hours, but I think a lot of people played 200, 300 hours, is insane. If size is your measure, then yes it's not the size of a AAA like The Witcher. But I don't know if size is the measure, to be honest, because there are AAA games like Call of Duty that aren't 100+ hours gameplay campaigns. And I don't know if anyone would call them AA, or indie.
"I would love to time travel and fix it"
During the same conversation, Tomaszkiewicz also briefly spoke about The Witcher 3. Although it is a widely beloved game, there are certain elements that the dev would like to change in it. Unfortunately, he didn't say which ones exactly, but he conveyed that he has already drawn the appropriate conclusions, which will be taken into account when working on the next games.
I still have stuff in The Witcher 3 that I hate about how we did it. I would love to time travel and fix it.
The Blood of Dawnwalker is heading to PC, PS5, and XSX/S. The game doesn't have a release date yet, but a gameplay presentation is expected in the summer of 2025.
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