--- title: Rebel Wolves chooses UE5 to power ambitious open world... description: Rebel Wolves, the Warsaw-based studio behind upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, discusses why they chose Unreal Engine 5 for their debut open-world... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rebel-wolves-chooses-ue5-to-power-ambitious-open-world-rpg-the-blood-of-dawnwalker-jv9gdo16c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rebel Wolves chooses UE5 to power ambitious open world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker | daily.dev og:description: Rebel Wolves, the Warsaw-based studio behind upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, discusses why they chose Unreal Engine 5 for their debut open-world... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rebel-wolves-chooses-ue5-to-power-ambitious-open-world-rpg-the-blood-of-dawnwalker-jv9gdo16c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Jv9gDo16c.png og:image:alt: Rebel Wolves chooses UE5 to power ambitious open world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rebel Wolves chooses UE5 to power ambitious open world RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker **[Unreal Engine](https://daily.dev/sources/unreal)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rebel Wolves, the Warsaw-based studio behind upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, discusses why they chose Unreal Engine 5 for their debut open-world title. The interview covers the game's dual day/night protagonist mechanics, its historical fantasy setting inspired by Eastern European folklore, and how access to UE5's source code and profiling tools enabled custom features and ongoing performance optimization throughout development and beyond release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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