Dawnfolk
Minimalist and relaxing survival builder perfect for short gaming sessions. Rebuild and manage your realm, collect resources and decide the fate of your people. Explore the darkness and unveil the secrets of…
Dawnfolk is an adventure developed by Darenn Keller, released 13 February 2025 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux.
What Dawnfolk is
Dawnfolk is an adventure game developed by Darenn Keller and released in 2025. It was published by Astra Logical. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Decades ago, titanic obsidian monoliths rained down from the sky. A raging tempest of unfathomable darkness gathered around them, slowly crawling across the world and consuming all in its path. You are the ruler of this land, once mighty and resolute, now broken and wounded. But not defeated! You intend to reclaim the realm and bring back light to the world. After years of wandering, your story begins as you finally find the Lueur, a mythical creature able to radiate a powerful enough brightness to dissipate darkness. It is time to explore the shadows and rebuild your realm.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 99 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Dawnfolk holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2+ Cores, 2+ GHz, 8 GB RAM and 2 GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dawnfolk launched on 13 February 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Split Fiction and Monster Hunter Wilds. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dawnfolk yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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