Sources, updates and coverage.
Current edition
Released · Update 1.1 (October 22, PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) latest detailed patch · October 26 award-vote notice · official sources checked October 27, 2026 UTC · installed console build unknown. 13 guides and 11 connected entries. Research checked 12 Sep 2026; article edit dates are recorded separately.
What still needs work
- No installed-build playtesting or measured combat timings. Routes are corroborated published accounts.
- Current coverage completes selected early quests and explains progression; it is not a complete campaign walkthrough or equipment database.
- Withering Away time totals and Mireleaf armour values conflict across sources; fixed totals and stats are omitted.
- Later story outcomes are kept behind reveal controls. Search previews also hide story-sensitive matches.
How updates are reviewed
Sources are linked to the guides that depend on them in Kingy’s review pipeline. A source change requests an editorial review; it does not automatically rewrite the guide or advance its edit date. Automated source checks are separate from a substantive guide review.
Source ledger
Launch announcement ↗Release, developer, publisher and supported platforms.Official · checked · published 3 Sep 2026
Features overview ↗Time as a resource; exploration, day/night forms and combat options. Prerelease explanation, checked after launch.Official · checked · published 13 Aug 2026
Swordmastery bulletin ↗Directional and omni combat, weapon styles and learning techniques.Official · checked · published 29 Jul 2026
Skills & Power bulletin ↗Shared XP and skill points; manuals, time costs and corruption requirements.Official · checked · published 31 Aug 2026
Hotfix 1.0.4 ↗September 9 rollout on PC, PS5 and Xbox; quest, saving and controller fixes. This announcement does not establish the latest installed console build or guarantee recovery of every save.Official · checked · published 9 Sep 2026
Prologue walkthrough and quest order ↗Reported early-rescue branch, clock icons and suggested route. Quest totals conflict with other reports; no fixed global schedule copied. Manual review: the live article falls beyond the automated monitor’s bounded response size; the truncated response does not contain the quest evidence.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Withering Away walkthrough ↗Objective sequence, payment choices and medicine. Its whole-quest time total is not treated as authoritative.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Withering Away: medicine and consequences ↗Corroborates recipe, location clues and delayed story consequence; time totals remain disputed.Walkthrough · checked · published 3 Sep 2026
Live Bait walkthrough ↗Yanna, objective changes, rods, optional tag and dialogue combat.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Live Bait route cross-check ↗Independent rod and bait route; treats optional tag as worthwhile for story. No media reused.Walkthrough · checked · published 5 Sep 2026
Deep Down walkthrough ↗Cave route, boss responses and exit. Describes the late-arrival branch; do not infer Lazar must die. Equipment values conflict.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Deep Down early-arrival route ↗Independently finds Lazar alive; corroborates landmarks and sarcophagus. No media reused. Equipment numbers differ from other sources.Walkthrough · checked · published 4 Sep 2026
Blasphemy walkthrough ↗Investigation clues, confession trigger, banner choices and hand-in.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Quest and Court progression directory ↗Court route and boss sequence, treated as one campaign route rather than the only ending path. Blanket missability claims are not reused.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Where Loyalty Lies and Notorious Infamy ↗Notorious IV requirement for the Manumits and Sara handoff. Manual review: the live article falls beyond the automated monitor’s bounded response size; the truncated response does not contain the quest evidence.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Official Steam announcement feed ↗Official announcement feed includes the October 26 Golden Joystick award-vote post. No newer gameplay patch or change to existing walkthroughs is established; latest detailed update remains 1.1.Official · checked
Live Bait FULL QUEST The Blood of Dawnwalker ↗Primary gameplay inspected at 0:10 and 5:27–6:57 checkpoints. Four rods share one pickup; setup and bait objective changes are visible. Executable build and difficulty are unknown. This review does not verify every scene or alternate branch. Original YouTube embed only.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Director’s New Game Plus comments, reported September 17 ↗Reports Konrad Tomaszkiewicz saying New Game Plus is coming without giving a date. The linked original stream was not accessible in this review. No shipped-mode, carry-over, trophy or timer rules established. Recheck new official announcements before treating the mode as available.Reported · checked · published 17 Sep 2026
All Court Activity Locations — Bloody Business entry ↗Post-prologue availability and reported three-segment cost for Bloody Business. Other activity routes and costs were not reviewed in this pass.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Bloody Business — captain’s letter and quest completion ↗Native video frames reviewed from 1:47 to 2:09: captain-body objective, letter pickup/read and quest ending. Build, difficulty and patrol route unconfirmed.Walkthrough · checked · published 3 Sep 2026
Easier difficulty and combat changes planned for October ↗Secondary account of one Eurogamer director interview; original inaccessible in this review. Future plans, not release notes or tested gameplay. No confirmed rollout or save rules.Reported · checked · published 22 Sep 2026
Second Skin skills and manual vendors ↗Swordmastery/Vigour prerequisite and reported manual vendors; article does not distinguish every rank requirement or identify a build/platform.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Second Skin II manual locations ↗Firsthand Tantari purchase and Silts Tower chest reports. Exact gameplay build/platform unspecified; bandit drop not treated as guaranteed.Walkthrough · checked · published 4 Sep 2026
Second Skin ranks and armour penalties ↗Updated September 23, citing Steam build 25232147 and a September 16 source review. Distinguishes I/II skills and rank-specific manuals; Kingy has not inspected that game build.Reported · checked
Where Loyalty Lies: prerequisite, investigation and courtyard route ↗Written route with illustrations; exact build/platform unstated. Supports Shadows in the Woods prerequisite, daylight meeting and surviving-scout route. Time and XP totals conflict with other reports; universal fail-state claim not adopted. No Kingy gameplay or video inspection.Walkthrough · checked · published 7 Sep 2026
Where Loyalty Lies: attic clues and roof entry ↗Written illustrated investigation route, crate/roof entrance and follow-up quest. Exact build/platform unspecified; its two-segment total conflicts with other reports. No native gameplay reproduction.Walkthrough · checked · published 7 Sep 2026
Where Loyalty Lies: alternative report and conflicting totals ↗Comparison only: reports different XP and directions, plus an all-scouts-dead branch. Embedded video was not watched in this pass; no timestamps, guaranteed rescue or corpse-branch procedure adopted.Reported · checked · published 7 Sep 2026
Silver Trader: tested early refusal and letter route ↗Firsthand written account of refusal when visiting immediately without Into the Den, then the letter/dialogue route. Does not test an Infamy-IV-only state; build/platform unspecified. No Kingy reproduction.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Into the Den: bear, corpse letter and marked cache ↗Author describes his bear fight and treasure route. Written account used only; embedded video not viewed. No exact platform/build, measured parry window or universal combat outcome established.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Into the Den: distinguish the two letters ↗Illustrated written route identifies Tattered Letter on the corpse and Letter with a Tip in the cache. Exact build/platform unspecified; Kingy has not collected either.Walkthrough · checked · published 4 Sep 2026
Silver Trader: letter or Infamy alternative ↗Reports alternative letter and level-4 unlocks and post-prologue Into the Den availability. Exact build/platform and controlled state comparison absent; sale prices and achievement threshold not imported.Walkthrough · checked · published 12 Sep 2026
Silver Trader location and Infamy requirement report ↗Location and reported level-4 access. Its mandatory-Infamy wording conflicts with the letter route; comments are not developer confirmation. No all-vendor census or current-build test claimed.Walkthrough · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Into the Den: cache map, hut approach and letter footage ↗Native YouTube player frames inspected at 1:02, 1:07, 1:12, 1:17, 1:22, 1:27, 1:32, 1:37, 1:42, 1:47, 1:52 and 1:57. Shows map/search area, hut approach, marked-stone dialogue, Letter with a Tip in cache loot and its reading screen. Release-era recording; platform/build/difficulty unspecified. No continuous-watch, exact clock-delta, merchant-unlock or Kingy playtest claim.Walkthrough · checked · published 3 Sep 2026
How to Advance Time ↗Launch-period shrine Wait instructions; report platform/build unspecified. Current controls and deadline effects not yet tested by Kingy.Reported · checked · published 2 Sep 2026
Father Florin choices ↗Original illustrated launch-period report; full native article read. Platform/build unspecified; Kingy gameplay not yet tested.Walkthrough · checked · published 4 Sep 2026
In the Name of the Father ↗Written route and dialogue branch; platform/build unspecified. No current-build re-entry test.Walkthrough · checked · published 9 Sep 2026
Steam store: released game ↗Released game available to buy; the store displays September 2, 2026. The publisher dates its launch announcement to September 3. Neither date establishes an installed patch.Official · checked
Xbox store: released game ↗Available to buy for Xbox Series X|S and PC; the US store displays September 3, 2026. No current executable version established.Official · checked
Steam Hotfix 1.0.5 announcement ↗Steam-only shader-compilation improvement that may reduce stuttering for some players. Full note also fetched in the official Steam API history; not a console rollout announcement or Kingy performance test.Official · checked · published 10 Sep 2026
Official Dawnwalker news index ↗October 23 news-index check: latest entry is the October 22 Update 1.1 announcement (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S). It does not announce New Game Plus.Official · checked
Update 1.1 patch notes (Steam) ↗Full Update 1.1 notes: Draught of Mind Rebirth skill reset, Forgiving difficulty (the old Story) plus a new Story mode with more combat assist, subtitle options, buyback, controller deadzones, quest, crash and loading-screen fixes, and one known issue (FrameGen crash on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT). Official notes, not a Kingy test.Official · checked · published 22 Oct 2026
First major post-launch update now available ↗States Update 1.1 is available on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with over 1,100 improvements and fixes.Official · checked · published 22 Oct 2026