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Developer(s) | The Astronauts |
Publisher(s) | The Astronauts |
Director(s) | Adrian Chmielarz |
Engine | Unreal Engine 4 [1] |
Platform(s) | Windows |
Release | September 20, 2023 ( early access) |
Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Witchfire is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed and published by The Astronauts. The game was released for Windows PC in early access in September 2023.
Witchfire is to be an action-oriented, skill-based first-person shooter game with no cutscenes. [2] [3] It will also feature elements commonly found in roguelike games. [4]
During the initial development, beginning towards the end of 2015, the game was being designed as a post-apocalyptic, science fiction survival simulator code-named "Astro Project 2", before turning into a dark fantasy first-person shooter. [5] Witchfire was officially revealed at The Game Awards 2017. [6] The Astronauts announced in January 2022 that Witchfire would be released via early access in late 2022. [4] However, in October 2022, it was announced that the early access date has been postponed to early 2023. [7] The game was released for Windows PC through the Epic Games Store on September 20, 2023. [8]
As of 2019, the development team has nine full members with three contributors. [9] The game is unrelated to the director Adrian Chmielarz's earlier Doom-style Painkiller (2004) and was influenced by FromSoftware's Dark Souls and Bungie's Destiny series. [10] [11] Its art direction inspirations include works of American landscape painters such as Thomas Hill, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church. [12]