The Blood of Dawnwalker will carry your save into future games, Mass Effect-style

Rebel Wolves and publisher Bandai Namco have confirmed that The Blood of Dawnwalker will support save data carry-overs into future entries in the series — a feature the studio planned from day one. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz revealed the detail while discussing the game's long-term ambitions, and Bandai Namco followed up with a direct confirmation: "There will be an option to carry the save from the first game."

Tomaszkiewicz explained that Rebel Wolves always conceived Dawnwalker as a multi-game cycle, not a standalone title. Planning the save import system early, he said, makes it far easier to plant story hooks in the first game that pay off later — rather than retrofitting connections after the fact. The protagonist, a half-human half-vampire named Coen, can apparently survive for centuries, as shown by the Summer Game Fest "saga" trailer — which Tomaszkiewicz confirmed is actually a post-credits scene from the upcoming game — depicting Coen alive in the present day, roughly 600 years after the 14th-century setting of the first entry. Future sequels won't simply jump to the modern day, though. Tomaszkiewicz was emphatic: "No. No, no, no." Instead, the series is designed to leap across different historical eras and cultures — Paris during the French Revolution was floated as one theoretical example.

The Mass Effect comparison is obvious and the developers aren't shying away from it, but it also comes with a cautionary asterisk: BioWare's save import system across the original trilogy was notoriously complex to manage, and the studio never attempted it again after Mass Effect 3. Rebel Wolves is a studio founded by veterans of CD Projekt Red — Tomaszkiewicz directed The Witcher 3 — so they have experience building sprawling narrative RPGs, but threading player choices across multiple games over a long development cycle is a different kind of challenge entirely.

The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't have a release date yet, so how the save system will actually work in practice remains to be seen. The confirmation that sequels are already being planned, with story hooks deliberately embedded in the first game, suggests Rebel Wolves is thinking well beyond a single release — whether players and the market will follow is the bigger question.