New Horror Soulslike Game About Salem Witch Trials is Being Built With Unreal Engine

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A new Soulslike game called Witches of the New World revolves around the events of the Salem witch trials, and it's being developed in Unreal Engine 5. Witches of the New World comes from a new studio named Horizontal Entertainment led by a Ubisoft alumni and promises exciting gameplay as well as difficult decisions.

Horizontal Entertainment is a new developer coming from Latin America. Its CEO is Adrian Gimate-Welsh, a Mexican-French engineer who worked at Ubisoft and Gameloft previously. Horizontal Entertainment hopes to focus on narrative-driven games mostly in the genre of historical fiction. It's a small studio which currently has two ongoing projects, one being Witches of the New World, and the other one will delve into the world of the Mafia in the 70s through the eyes of an undercover FBI agent. Gimate-Welsh also founded TagWizz, a Mexican developer which focuses on collaborating and supporting smaller game developers who might not have all the resources to create their games in-house.

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Witches of the New World is still in development, and it focuses on Jedediah Hopkins, a witchfinder from England, who is asked to travel over to the New World to investigate strange events which transpired around the town of Salem. The story covers the aftermath of the Salem witch trials with Jedediah investigating whether the trials were the result of mere hysteria or if they were surrounded by supernatural events. After conducting his investigation, Jedediah uncovers a conspiracy of devil worshipers who are trying to take over Salem. After which it's up to the witchfinder to delve further into the dangerous plot and stop it from reaching its goal. Jedediah's weapons are a flintlock and a