

So even though Witchfire is obviously a shooter first, we invest a lot in its world and lore. It doesn’t matter to me if the game is focused on the story or on the mechanics- I need its world to feel like a real place. To be a space pirate, a detective with supernatural powers, or a Church’s witch hunter. In an interview with Epic Games News, Adrian Chmielarz, Creative Director and Co-Founder of The Astronauts said: “ The thing that excites me the most in video games is the idea of experiencing different worlds.

Armed by Vatican sorcerers, players wield an ungodly array of guns and forbidden magic as they combat dark terrors on behalf of their shadowy benefactors. In this alternate reality, witches are very real and very dangerous- but so is the witch hunter, also known as a preyer.
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The title will be available for Windows players from the Epic Games Store.įrom the creators of Painkiller and Bulletstorm, Witchfire is a first-person shooter set in a grimdark fantasy world in which a deadly war rages between powerful witches and the Church. A spellbinding new gameplay trailer shared in the Summer Game Fest confirmed that the grimdark shooter will launch into Early Access on September 20, 2023. WARSAW, Poland, June 8, 2023- Today the independent game studio The Astronauts revealed the early access launch date of their upcoming dark fantasy roguelite, Witchfire. You can check out a trailer above and read below for more details: Witchfire takes place in an alternate reality where a war rages between witches and the church and has players taking on the role of a witch hunter, know as a preyer, who is armed by Vatican sorcerers. Witchfire, a new dark fantasy rougelite shooter from the creators of Bulletstorm, has announced that it will hit early access via the Epic Games Store for Windows on September 20th, 2023.
