Dark fantasy shooter Witchfire debuts on September 20 in early access
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The Astronauts announced that Witchfire, a dark fantasy shooter, will debut in early access on September 20.
The company unveiled the news in a new gameplay trailer that debuted at the Summer Game Fest. The rogue-lite title comes from the creators of Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
The Astronauts is an independent game studio in Warsaw, Poland. The title will be available for Windows players from the Epic Games Store.
Witchfire is a first-person shooter set in a grimdark fantasy world in which a deadly war rages between powerful witches and the Church. In this alternate reality, witches are very real and dangerous— but so is the witch hunter, also known as a preyer.
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 an interview with Epic Games News, Adrian Chmielarz, creative director of The Astronauts, said in a statement, “The thing that excites me the most in video games is the idea of experiencing different worlds. To be a space pirate, a detective with supernatural powers, or a Church’s witch hunter.”
Chmielarz added, “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. So even though Witchfire is obviously a shooter first, we invest a lot in its world and lore. I believe this enhances the experience even for the people who claim they don’t care about the stories in games at all.”
Chmielarz confirmed that, although there is extensive lore and backstory to Witchfire, the team’s main focus for the early
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