The Blood of Dawnwalker Endings and Choices Guide

Yes — The Blood of Dawnwalker has multiple endings. "Multiple Endings" and "Choices Matter" are both official tags on the game's Steam page, and the official site promises a story shaped by your actions and the secrets you uncover. The exact number of endings is TBC: Rebel Wolves has not published a list, and this guide will not invent one. Below is every officially confirmed system that decides how your story ends.

Multiple Endings and Choices Matter: The Official Confirmation

The Steam store page carries the "Multiple Endings" and "Choices Matter" tags. The official website goes further: every action — and inaction — shapes the world around you. Your family's days are numbered, every quest moves time forward, and the world waits for no one.

Steam's launch achievement list reinforces the replay structure. Of the 46 achievements shipping on day one, 21 are hidden — names and conditions secret until earned — and the announcement states plainly that "one single run will not make it possible for a full unlock." The closing achievement, The Blood of Dawnwalker, simply reads "Finish the story." What the story finishes as is entirely down to you.

That combination — a single story-completion achievement surrounded by 21 hidden ones — is the strongest hint from official materials that the endings themselves, and the roads leading to them, are meant to be discovered rather than listed.

The Choice Axes That Shape Your Ending

Official materials describe several forks that define a playthrough:

• Save your family, or swear revenge. The site's "Make The Story Your Own" section names two drives — embark on the quest to save your family, or swear revenge on your sire and destroy everyone standing in your way.
• Humanity or the curse. Fight for your humanity or embrace the cursed powers to save your family, with the question the game keeps asking: is your soul worth the lives of those you love?
• Who to help, and who to leave behind. You will not have time for everyone, and the villain does not wait.
• How to prepare. Rush in head first, or risk taking time to prepare. Go alone, or search for friends and forge unlikely alliances.
• What to uncover. Ancient secrets are lurking in the valley, and the secrets you uncover feed back into the story the site promises.

Notice what these axes share: none of them can be maximized at once. The official site frames the stakes in a single breath — every action, and inaction, shapes the world around you, your family's days are numbered, and neither the world nor the villain waits. Every fork you take closes others behind you. That is precisely how a choices-matter game manufactures different endings, and why the developers keep the count to themselves.

Your Family's Fate Is the Real Ending Meter

The story is built around five lives. Coen's family — his father Pieter, his sick mother Esme, and his siblings Yanna, Mirto and Lunka — have been captured by the vrakhiri, the forces of the vampire regime. Coen has 30 days and nights to prevent their execution by the vampire monarchy.

Each member matters. Pieter, the former mercenary who taught Coen the sword, is a strict, emotionally distant yet protective father. Esme's health has worsened ever since Brencis rose to power — she no longer speaks, eats or sleeps properly. Yanna, the second oldest, is mature beyond her years and holds the younger siblings together. Mirto, once a quiet child, has grown restless as his parents became emotionally absent. Lunka, the youngest, was healed from the plague with Brencis's own vampire blood in the cinematic trailer: blood that heals humans, with long-term effects the developers tease with a "but who knows?"

Five people, five separate threads — and the developers have only confirmed the shape of one of them. How each family member fares across your 30 days looks set to feed directly into your ending. The details are TBC.

Time, Failure and the 30-Day Deadline

The endings are shaped by the clock. The official site states the mechanism plainly: your family's days are numbered, and every time you take on a quest, time moves forward, compelling you closer to the end. Time advances only when you complete specific objectives — quests, key decisions, or switching between day and night. Each time-costing activity shows an hourglass icon before you commit, while exploring, looting and fighting never move the clock at all.

Crucially, running out of time is not a hard game over. The family bears the consequences instead. What that means for each family member — and for the finale — is TBC, but the design intent is clear: your ending is the sum of what you did and did not do with your 30 days. Choose carefully whom to help and whom to leave behind.

Morality Systems: Infamy and Blood Hunger

Two confirmed systems color those choices. The first is Infamy. The Throne of Thorns achievement rewards reaching "peak Infamy in Vale Sangora," confirming a reputation system that tracks how notorious Coen becomes across the valley. How Infamy is earned, and what it changes, is TBC.

The second is Blood Hunger. Coen's vampiric thirst intensifies at night with visible cues, and you choose how to satisfy it — defeated foes, villagers, animals or blood vials — deciding how much to drain and whether victims live or die. Leave the hunger unsatisfied and his abilities weaken; in critical moments he can lose control and unintentionally cause the death of an important story character. A single feeding choice, in other words, can remove a story character from your ending.

Whether the two systems talk to each other — whether feeding builds Infamy, or whether an infamous Coen faces different reactions when he hungers — is TBC. But the design is already clear: morality here is something you perform hour by hour, not a menu you pick from once.

Why One Playthrough Will Not See Every Ending

The Blood of Dawnwalker has no conventional main quest. Officially there is no real difference between main and side missions — the difference is how you decide to weave Coen's story, a structure the studio has compared to Fallout 1 and 2. You can rush the villain's castle immediately — officially possible, though the developers warn the challenge would be quite intense — spend days preparing, or chase ancient secrets in the valley.

The Xanthe fight showed the same philosophy in miniature. The oldest vampire in Vale Sangora can be defeated at the very start of the game, or left waiting while Coen grows stronger for a few more days. Who is alive, dead, or wary of you by the finale depends on calls exactly like that one.

Combine that freedom with the 30-day limit, the hidden achievement pool and the feeding consequences, and choices compound into different endings by design. One run cannot contain them all — and the game is built knowing that.

The number of endings, their names and their unlock requirements are TBC — not officially confirmed yet. So are the thresholds of the Infamy system and how each family member's individual fate maps onto the finale.

(Sections are expanded with a full endings list, requirements and clearly marked spoilers as official information becomes available.)