Witchfire is an upcoming first-person shooter video game by The Astronauts for Windows. The game is set to release in early access in early 2023.[2]
| Witchfire | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Astronauts |
| Publisher(s) | The Astronauts |
| Director(s) | Adrian Chmielarz |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4[1] |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release | Early 2023 (early access) |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Witchfire is to be an action-oriented, skill-based first-person shooter game with no cutscenes.[3][4] The game would also feature elements commonly found in roguelike games.[5]
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.[6] Witchfire was officially revealed at The Game Awards 2017.[7] The Astronauts announced in January 2022 that Witchfire would be released via early access in late 2022.[5] However, in October 2022, it was announced that the early access date has been postponed to early 2023.[2]
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 was also influenced by FromSoftware's Dark Souls and Bungie's Destiny series.[9][10] Its art direction inspirations include works of American landscape painters such as Thomas Hill, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Edwin Church.[11]