Eurogamer's review of The Blood of Dawnwalker concludes that the dark fantasy RPG from Rebel Wolves is deliberately and heavily reminiscent of The Witcher 3, unsurprising given it is directed by Konrad Tomaszkiewicz and made largely by former CD Projekt Red staff. The review judges the game largely successful in meeting that high benchmark, matching The Witcher 3's earthy tone, brutal world and folk-inflected atmosphere, while introducing its own bold ideas rather than simply imitating its predecessor.

The central new mechanic is protagonist Coen, a young man in the 14th-century Carpathian Mountains who is partially turned into a vampire, giving him two forms that switch automatically between day and night. By night he becomes an agile, wall-climbing vampire able to teleport across rooftops, notably in the densely packed city of Svartrau, while by day he is human but wields powerful witch-like abilities, including slowing time to speed his own movement and communicating with the dead. The review praises this day/night duality for giving a lengthy open-world RPG much-needed variety in both combat and exploration, addressing a weakness it identifies in The Witcher 3 itself, with separate but linked skill trees for the vampire and witch abilities joined by a shared swordsmanship tree.