Last updated: 21 October 2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker PC System Requirements — Minimum to 4K Ultra

Rebel Wolves published its final four-tier PC spec sheet for The Blood of Dawnwalker shortly before launch, covering everything from 1080p/30fps on older hardware up to 4K/60fps on high-end cards — noticeably lower than the studio's earlier, native-rendering estimates, because the final numbers assume an upscaler is switched on. The game went gold on July 15, 2026, and released as planned on September 3. Here's the complete breakdown, plus what's confirmed about upscaling support and PC editions.

01Release Date and Platforms

The Blood of Dawnwalker launched September 3, 2026 on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S — simultaneously, with no timed console exclusivity. The PC version actually unlocked slightly earlier for North American players, at 6pm ET on September 2, while consoles followed at local midnight on September 3.

Rebel Wolves confirmed via the game's official account that it went gold on July 15, 2026 — "The Blood of Dawnwalker has gone gold! Vale Sangora awaits" — meaning development was complete roughly seven weeks ahead of release. That held: the game shipped on the date the studio had been reaffirming for months, with no last-minute delay.

02Shared Requirements (All Tiers)

Every spec tier below shares the same baseline platform requirements:

• OS: Windows 10 or higher
• DirectX: Version 12
• RAM: 16 GB
• Storage: 60 GB, SSD required

Important caveat that Rebel Wolves attached to its final requirements: every resolution/FPS target below assumes an upscaler — DLSS, FSR, or XeSS — is switched on (reported at a Balanced setting). Treat the listed resolutions as output targets reached with upscaling active, not native-rendering performance. That's also why these final numbers are noticeably lower than Rebel Wolves' earlier public estimates, which had assumed native rendering (an early native-4K/60 target reportedly called for hardware as demanding as an RTX 5090).

03Minimum — 1080p / 30 FPS / Low

• CPU: Intel Core i5-11400F or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
• VRAM: 6 GB

04Medium — 1080p / 60 FPS

• CPU: Intel Core i7-11700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super, GTX 1070 Ti, AMD RX 5700, or Intel Arc A750
• VRAM: 8 GB

05High — 1440p / 60 FPS

• CPU: Intel Core i7-11700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4060, AMD RX 7600 XT, or Intel Arc B580
• VRAM: 8 GB

This is the tier that matches the two-tier "Minimum / Recommended" listing on the Steam store page — Steam's own page doesn't attach a resolution or FPS target to either of its two tiers, but its Recommended hardware lines up with this High tier.

06Ultra — 4K / 60 FPS

• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 9070
• VRAM: 12 GB

Remember this tier still assumes upscaling is active at 4K — it is not a native-4K/60 claim. Rebel Wolves has not published a separate native-rendering figure for 4K.

07Upscaling and Ray Tracing

DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS are all supported, with frame generation added via the day-one patch (platform-specific: DLSS frame generation on RTX 40/50-series cards, FSR frame generation elsewhere). The game was also available on GeForce NOW from day one, giving players on sub-minimum hardware a cloud option.

Software-based ray tracing (Lumen-style global illumination and reflections) is supported, and a hardware-accelerated ray-tracing option for shadows/ambient occlusion exists but carries a real performance cost — reported at around 15% in forest-heavy areas for a fairly modest visual gain over the software solution, so it isn't a setting most players will want to enable. Specific DLSS/FSR/XeSS version numbers haven't been independently confirmed from an official source, so treat any version number you see elsewhere as unverified.

08PC Editions and Pre-Order Bonus

The Blood of Dawnwalker shipped in three confirmed editions on PC:

• Standard Digital — $69.99: the base game.
• Eclipse Edition — $79.99: base game plus a Digital World Compendium, Digital Soundtrack, and Digital Comic Book.
• Collector's Edition — $199.99: base game with the Eclipse digital upgrade, plus physical items — a Steelbook, a 60-page physical World Compendium, a World Map, a Collector's Box, and a 23 cm Coen figurine.

The pre-order bonus for digital purchases across every edition was the Sangoran Wayfarer's Armor Set. Physical pre-orders through participating retailers additionally came with a gold-laminated bookmark and a three-piece sticker set — those are retailer extras on top of the armor set, not a replacement for it.