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Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.
Witchfire is a fps, extraction shooter and rogue-lite game
developed and published by The Astronauts.
Released on September 23rd 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 8,575 reviews of which 7,976 were positive and 599 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti / AMD RX 470 (4GB VRAM or more)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 55 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
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Pretty Good. Ok so off the bat, the thing that is the most polarizing about this game is its difficulty, and from my perspective, there's a very simple reason for it: There are a lot of different systems for punishing you. It feels like several different designers had several different ideas about punishment systems in the game, and individually, they are all good, and encourage you to lean into what makes the game fun by punishing you for trying to escape the frenetic 'in-the-mix' combat loop. The problem with that is that they all exist simultaneously, and trigger individually. As a result, if your build is working and you're playing well, you are untouched by any of these punishments and can really enjoy tearing through some visceral combat with fantastically designed weapons and a character system with enough item slots with varying effects that you take control of your identity in that combat. But if you're struggling, *just by a bit* the punishments start *hammering down on you*. So if you scroll through and see reviews from both sides of this coin, understand why it's happening. The people that don't have a problem with the difficulty are correct, because if you're winning, there really *isn't* a difficulty problem. The game doesn't just randomly punch you in the face for no reason. *But*, the players saying it's too hard also aren't wrong, because if you flinch, the game unleashes a haymaker into your face, and if *that* makes you flinch, it gives you a wet willy, etc etc. Just to give you a jist, here is every system that punishes you for taking damage. HP (Death) Stamina (you lose stamina on being hit) Max Stamina (if you get hit too much, you lose max stamina) Mini-Stun (If I recall correctly, taking any hit mini-stuns you, crippling your movement for a quarter second or so) Dodge-Stun (If you lose max stamina, you lose the ability to stagger enemies with your dodge-soul-thing) Witch Curse (When you get hit, there's a chance the witch notices, filling a meter. When the meter fills you get a 'calamity', which is what it sounds like) That's 6 different horrible things that can happen on *any hit*, and to be honest, there are probably more if I were to really pick it apart instead of discuss it offhandedly. But the game gives you plenty of means to *avoid* any of the hits that could inflict you with all these castigations, it's really that the game isn't interested in giving you any "second chance mechanics", and instead gives you a bunch of "you *had* your chance" mechanics. All this is to say.... the difficulty is real swingy. It either isn't really present when you're winning or is mashing your face into the ground because you got a B- on your Pope Test. Is that good, is that bad? Eh, it's really whatever. It depends on how you feel about that kind of difficulty in your games, it just bears explanation. Personally I don't mind, even if it feels a bit messy. The gameplay loop when you're dodging the punishment effects is quite spectacular. The weapons are fantastically interesting (saying it again, because it *really bears mentioning a lot.* each weapon has it's own entire playstyle designed into it, you're not just choosing "shotgun or sniper rifle" you're choosing a unique gameplay loop that could carry an entire small indie game on its own with every different weapon), the sound design is an auditory vat of jello for you to sink into, and the visuals are like.... really freaky good for such a small game coming out of nowhere. The creative vision is disgustingly coherent and well done, which is the most surprising thing for an early access game to have on such confident and assured lock right off the bat. I've gotten my money's worth out of this just in early access, you might too if you're willing to take a few sudden forearm smashes in the face because you got hit with the wrong attack once and Papa Witchfire had one too many pope-sodas and is taking it out on you for disappointing him.
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It's gonna be a small non-comprehensive review. Basically I waited until I unlocked and fully upgraded every weapon in the game before I made my review. I spent a lot of time deliberating whether to give this a yes or a no. The gameplay is there, it's polished, it's responsive, the weapons feel unique and fun, even things I thought I would hate upgrading actually felt good to upgrade. And while I wish after unlocking all three levels of a weapon there was a way to sink more resources into it perpetually to buff the stats, performance, or unlock alternate visuals for your favorite weapons, what there is so far is good. It's acceptable. But now we get to why I was debating giving this review a yes or a no. The screen shake. My God, the screen shake. I don't know the mechanics behind it, maybe I just grew less tolerant of it, but the more I put into the game, the more frequent it seemed, and it's heavy, and it's impeding, it breaks immersion, it breaks enjoyment. These random "quakes" that just, I've never in my 30+ years of gaming understood how people could complain about motion sickness in a videogame until I played Witchfire. There were a couple times where screen shake got so bad it physically made me recoil and turn away to stop myself from feeling like I want to vomit. It's doing an absolute colossal disservice to the game and it's a lot. It's a lot to take, and it's a lot to overlook considering you end up fighting it to be able to enjoy what I genuinely believe to be one of the finest gunplays in any videogame ever. Like genuinely the way guns handle and respond feels more fun and addictive than gunplay in Destiny at its prime. If I could give you a recommendation purely on gameplay, it's a 100% unequivocal yes. It might be hard at the start it might be easy, but you can gear and upgrade to acomodate for both in the way the system is now. If, however, you suffer from motion sickness, are bothered by screen shake, it's probably a no. Know what you're getting into and understand that this has one of the most egregious, invasive, unfun, counter-intuitive screen shakes ever implemented in any videogame to date. And if devs happen to check out reviews from time to time and happen upon this one. Please for the love of all that is good in the world, please, add a way to disable the screen shake as soon as possible. (Also weapon paragon/ascension levels.)
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Love dark souls but man has the game done irreparable damage to people's brains. Nothing outside of gaining currency and leveling stats is souls like in this game at all. Much more unique in its own way and really i can't praise it enough. Great setting, great aesthetic, doesn't feel reused or campy. All around a great experience. Pirated this first then decided that I wanted to pay them instead as soon as I got to pilot the game
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A game that deserves many many more players. A gem of a game for anyone that likes Dark Souls in an FPS game. Be mindful though, this is a single player ONLY game. It is completely built around that and honestly, I love that. It is a game where everything in it is intentional, there is no bloat, obsolete menus. It is very streamlined. The game runs like a dream, 2k 144 fps in pretty every scenario with a 3070ti.
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This game is a perfectly accurate simulation of a witch hunt: being that the witch does not actually exist and you instead spend your time systematically eliminating entire populations.
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Witchfire is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Witchfire is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Witchfire received 7,976 positive votes out of a total of 8,575 achieving an impressive rating of 9.02.
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Witchfire was developed and published by The Astronauts.
Witchfire is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Witchfire is not playable on MacOS.
Witchfire is not playable on Linux.
Witchfire is a single-player game.
Witchfire does not currently offer any DLC.
Witchfire does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Witchfire does not support Steam Remote Play.
Witchfire is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Witchfire.
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Developer
The Astronauts
Publisher
The Astronauts
Release
23 Sep 2024
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