Witchfire (video game)

Witchfire is an upcoming first-person shooter video game being developed by Polish independent studio The Astronauts for Microsoft Windows.

Witchfire
Developer(s)The Astronauts
Publisher(s)The Astronauts
Director(s)Adrian Chmielarz
EngineUnreal Engine 4[1]
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
ReleaseTBA 2020[2]
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Witchfire is to be an action-oriented, skill-based first-person shooter game with no cut scenes.[3][4]

Development and release

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 on December 8, 2017, when the first teaser trailer was released at The Game Awards.[6] It is to be released "when it's done".[7]

As of 2019, the development team has nine full members with three contributors.[8] The game is unrelated to the director Adrian Chmielarz's earlier Doom-style Painkiller (2004) and is in some ways actually inspired by From Software's Souls series[9] and Bungie's Destiny.[10] Its art direction inspirations include works of American landscape painters such as Thomas Hill, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church.[11]

See also
  • Hellraid, another Polish dark fantasy first-person shooter in on-hold development as of 2019

References
  1. "Our new game, Witchfire". The Astronauts. 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  2. "Data premiery Witchfire: egzekucja wiedźm od Adriana Chmielarza". PurePC.pl (in Polish). 2018-12-14. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  3. "Witchfire – polskie studio rozpala stosy w grze o polowaniu na czarownice". Antyradio.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  4. "Witchfire PC - wymagania, premiera, opis | MiastoGier.pl". www.miastogier.pl. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  5. "Witchfire - nowa produkcja Adriana Chmielarza miała być symulatorem przetrwania | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  6. "Witchfire gets a sick ass reveal trailer". Destructoid. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  7. Sobczak, Bartek. "Snippets Of Action-Packed WITCHFIRE Gameplay Footage Have Been Released By The Astronauts". gamefragger.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  8. "Redesigning Weapons". The Astronauts. 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  9. "Is Witchfire the Next Painkiller?". The Astronauts. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  10. "The Astronauts - We are the spacefaring types". The Astronauts. 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  11. "Art Direction Note + Wallpapers". The Astronauts. 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  • Official website of The Astronauts, including a weekly-updated Witchfire development blog
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