Witchfire Darkish Fantasy FPS Is Delayed to 2023 to Add Open World

Polish indie developer The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter) introduced that its upcoming darkish fantasy roguelite first-person shooter Witchfire has been delayed to 2023 from its earlier late 2022 early entry launch window. Inventive Director and Co-Founder Adrien Chmielarz defined that the delay is basically owed to the late determination to introduce a semi-open world expertise as a substitute of the earlier arena-style environments.

The characteristic is now 95% carried out. It makes the game higher. It’s form of exhausting for me to think about the participant didn’t have that freedom earlier than. Positive, you’ll be able to nonetheless be trapped by the witch on this or that spot, and a few doorways will probably be closed till you discover a key, and it is likely to be too harmful to enter areas nearer to the boss earlier than you might be prepared – however the world is extensive open so that you can discover in virtually any order, and you’ll each push ahead and retreat as you please.

It’s humorous, however the entire thing made this fantasy game extra …lifelike.

However yeah, the price of that is we aren’t prepared with the game simply but. Now we have “misplaced” a couple of months with the redesign and are solely now again on monitor with the common improvement. The excellent news: an amazing programmer and designer joined us lately, so the group received a bit larger and that ought to assist preserve the event good and regular.

As our long-time readers could recall, Witchfire was first introduced on the 2017 The Game Awards. In 2023, over 5 years may have handed since that reveal. Let’s hope the very lengthy wait will probably be value it.

Chmielarz additionally confirmed that the Unreal Engine powered game will launch solely on the Epic Video games Retailer for its early entry however ought to later launch on Steam and even console platforms.