Rebel Wolves Builds a Studio Around RPGs, Not Trends
Rebel Wolves, the Warsaw studio led by former The Witcher 3 game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, has grown from about 20 people at its 2022 founding to roughly 160 staff.
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Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Why it matters
Rebel Wolves' pitch is structural rather than stylistic: a privately held studio with NetEase investment, no in-game purchases, and a packaged single-player RPG behind a debut that cleared one million sales in a weekend.
Key Facts
- Rebel Wolves is based in Warsaw, Poland, and was founded in 2022.
- Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who was game director on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, leads Rebel Wolves.
- Rebel Wolves had about 20 staff at founding and roughly 160 at the time of 4Gamer's visit.
- The Blood of Dawnwalker released on September 3, 2026.
- The Blood of Dawnwalker surpassed 1 million units sold worldwide in its first weekend.
Global Marketing Lead Paweł Panasiuk told 4Gamer that the team wanted to make a full RPG without stock market pressure. The Blood of Dawnwalker, the studio's debut, released on September 3, 2026 and passed 1 million units sold worldwide in its first weekend.
Rebel Wolves was founded in Warsaw in 2022 around Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, who was game director on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and developers with RPG credits at CD PROJEKT RED and elsewhere. Paweł Panasiuk, the studio's Global Marketing Lead, described the founding conviction in plain terms: an environment where one project gets full attention, without being rushed and without stock market pressure.
The genre question was settled early. The team knew RPGs, so it set out to make a full RPG. Work began with about 20 people on concept art and story, and the staff count reached roughly 160 by the time 4Gamer visited. The Blood of Dawnwalker, the studio's first release, arrived on September 3, 2026 and sold over 1 million units worldwide in its first weekend.
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