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Witchfire – Painkiller 2?. The best upcoming games of 2020

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Why: CausePainkillerwas amazing!!!

  1. Release date: 2020
  2. Genre: shooter
  3. Platforms: TBA, probably PC, PS4 and XONE

After the narrative-driven The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Adrian Chmielarz is returning to the roots. The second project of The Astronauts raises unambiguous associations with one of the most successful Polish games before the WitcherPainkiller. The devs openly admit being inspired by games by From Software, Dark Souls and Sekiro, in designing the world and the monsters.

While we don't know much about the game so far, what we've seen gives a picture of a very dynamic shooter set in dark fantasy. The realm will be full of dark greens and gloomy buildings, captured by all kinds of demons and monsters that we will have to face, using firearms and several paranormal abilities.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was one of the first independent games to use photogrammetry, therefore delivering extremely realistic, lifelike locations. Witchfire also uses this technology, which already makes it look like a full-fledged, high-budget game, rather than a project of a mid-sized studio. Is this really the Painkiller of our times? Fingers crossed!

  1. More about Witchfire

Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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