The Blood of Dawnwalker finally has a release date, but developer Rebel Wolves also released the PC system requirements and they’re a little extreme.
As has been the trend for recent games like Crimson Desert, Rebel Wolves released its PC requirements with a chart, detailing the kind of hardware necessary to run the game at different resolutions, quality presets, and the target frame rate for each. These range from the minimum settings to running at 4K with the Ultra preset.
Running the game at its minimum settings is pretty reasonable, only calling for an RTX 3050 or GTX 1070 – but that’s just to run the game at minimum settings, at 1080p and at 30fps to boot. If you want to max the game out, you’re going to need an RTX 5090, which is the most expensive consumer graphics card in recent history. And rather than targeting a high 120fps, that’s just for 4K 60fps.
To put it in perspective, the RTX 5090 launched back in January 2026 for $1,999, but since then it’s exploded in price to the point where you’re looking at $3,699 on Newegg — and that’s on the low-end. However, it’s important to keep in mind that the performance tier that’s asking for an RTX 5090 is running at native 4K, which means no DLSS or FSR. It’s very likely that turning on some kind of upscaling will significantly cut down on the GPU load.
It’s too early to tell if these high demands are due to optimization issues or if the game truly is that demanding. However, given that Rebel Wolves has a lot of CD Projekt Red alumni, it’s not that surprising that it’s targeting high-end gaming PCs with The Blood of Dawnwalker.
Either way, once the game launches on September 3, I’ll be putting it through its paces on several GPUs to see just how well it runs. Hopefully it makes good use of that high-end GPU – The Witcher 3 certainly did back in its day.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
