As announced last week by The Astronauts team, creators of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, these days they would share news about their new and promising project, witch fire. In such a way, they have confirmed that this spiritual successor of Pinkiller finally coming to PC in late 2022 as early access, more details about its final release and other platforms will follow soon.
Through an extensive game development update, The Astronauts has confirmed that Witchfire will be a roguelite cut FPS, as “when you die, we punish you for it, but we also let you keep some stuff so you can unlock and upgrade cool stuff that might help you in the future.” The team considers it more of a fantasy shooter RPG than a roguelite, but at least for now, we’re totally on board with the latter. Roguelite then.”
While not a full release, The Astronauts says, it means “a great challenge«. He jokes that there have been early access releases that have been complete disasters. «Players no longer tolerate bugs and expect many, many happy hours of gaming. We have to make sure we deliver on both fronts.” To do this, they assure that they will look at success stories like Hades or Dead Cells.
This update of the development of the game has also served to be able to see new screenshots and gameplay clips from Witchfire. Quite a violent and fast shooter that drinks from the classics of the genre, and proposes a darkest fantasy world.
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As for the specific release date, there will be news in the coming months. “We don’t think it makes sense to name a day unless you’re 100 percent sure it’s doable,” says The Astronauts.