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2023 · The Astronauts · Adventure · First-person shooter

Witchfire

Witchfire is a first-person shooter from the creative leads behind Painkiller and Bulletstorm. A roguelite for people who hate roguelites, the game offers a challenging but satisfying gameplay experience, and with multiple roads to victory.

Released: 20 September 2023
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Adventure First-person shooter Shooter
Developers: The Astronauts
Publishers: The Astronauts
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Fantasy Open world
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Country: Poland
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain) and 2 more
Copies sold: 500,000 as of 2025-12-19
Time to beat: 11hmain story62hcompletionist
Directors: Adrian Chmielarz

About

Witchfire is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by The Astronauts. The game was released for Windows PC in early access in September 2023, and is set to be released in full in 2026.

›Story

Desperate for a chance to triumph in the deadly war against witches, the Church calls on forbidden pagan magic to turn willing sinners into immortal witch hunters called preyers.

Armed with powerful spells and fearsome firearms conjured by the best Vatican sorcerers, your mission is to find the infamous witch of the Black Sea, destroy the phantom army that protects her, and retrieve a mysterious artifact that can finally turn the tide of war.

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Gameplay

Witchfire is to be an action-oriented, skill-based first-person shooter game with no cutscenes. It will also feature elements commonly found in roguelike games.

Development

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. Witchfire was officially revealed at The Game Awards 2017. The Astronauts announced in January 2022 that Witchfire would be released via early access in late 2022. However, in October 2022, it was announced that the early access date was postponed to early 2023.

The game was released for Windows PC through the Epic Games Store on September 20, 2023. The full version of the game is set to be released in 2026.