Witch It News

[h3]💜 Please vote Witch It for the "Labor of Love" Steam award![/h3]
2023 marks Witch It's third year out of Early Access, and we're not slowing down! 🙌

It has been our goal to support Witch It into the future - and we are very excited to continue our journey into 2024. We strongly believe next year will be our biggest year yet, with our major content update "Dreamland", and our first ever console release, as well as many more surprises to come! ✨

Let's take a look back at 2023:
🐇 Year of the Rabbit and Valentines 2023!
🗺️ 6 Faraway Lands Maps!
🎲 Match Rules+!
🔄 Custom Map Cycles!
👤 Witch It Goes Independent!
🔧 Unreal Engine 5!
🌏 New Languages!
🎃 Halloween Event!
🎥 GIF Contest!

Barrel Roll Games welcomes your love and support, by nominating Witch It for the "Labor of Love" award during the Steam Awards 2023! To do so, please tick the vote box at the top of this announcement, or head over to the nominations page! 🏆


[h3]🍂 Autumn Sale![/h3]
Witch It is -75% off on Steam until November 28th - prepare your Christmas celebrations and gifts early and pick up a copy for yourself or a friend! 🎁

To you, our supporters - thank you for always motivating us!
We hope you continue to enjoy Witch It for many more years to come. :luaq:

+ Added: 2 new languages: Japanese and Basque
+ Added: There are now Settings to compensate for Color weakness

↻ Changed: GPU performance optimization for Blocking Volumes on featured user maps

✓ Fixed: OP spot on 'Powersource'
✓ Fixed: Various Collision problems with specific props on different map locations
✓ Fixed: Collision Wall at Labyrinth on 'Grunewald Library'
✓ Fixed: Floating mushrooms on 'Grave Gulch'
✓ Fixed: Water ambient sound not affected by ambient sound slider on 'Sunset Swamp'
✓ Fixed: No Grass on the Imposturous map
✓ Fixed: One ladder on Stronghold is not usable by witches

Fright Night has come to an end, and we've decided on our three GIF Masters! 🥇
It's been over 2 years since the last GIF contest - so the stakes are higher than ever!

A GIF Masters Hat will be granted to each of the three winners!

A huge thank you to all entrants for putting so much time and effort into each GIF. 👻
It's always difficult picking just a handful of winners when the quality of each entry is extraordinary!

[h3]Our winners in no particular order:[/h3]
[h2]🐺 "The Werewolf" by Emote![/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

[h2]🔑 "The new Grunewald owner" by fri![/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

[h2]🍬 "Trick or Treat" by TRB! [/h2]
🏆 View their entry by clicking here!

Congratulations to our three new GIF Masters! Your roles and hat will be sent to you shortly.

➡️ Click here to view all entries for the 9th GIF Contest, Fright Night! ⬅️

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Witch It is -75% off on Steam during the Steam Scream Fest Sale, and the discount will continue until the 9th November 2023!

Planning to schedule some Halloween-themed game nights with your crew? 🎃
Pick up Witch It at a huge discount now, and get involved in our Halloween 2023 Event!



[h3]What's currently happening in Witch It?[/h3]
👻 The Halloween 2023 event is live - earn haunted candy and craft spooky Halloween items!
🧟 Our 9th GIF Contest, "Fright Night", ends tomorrow!
🔧 Witch It is now on Unreal Engine 5!
✨ We're hard at work on our next major content update, "Dreamland"!
🎮 Our first console port is being worked on, too!

➡️ View the sale by clicking here! ⬅️

Happy Halloween! Celebrate the spooky festivities with four new Hunter items, a limited-time player icon, performance optimisations, and a Halloween GIF Contest! 👻


Struggling to find a suitable Halloween costume for the Hunter this month? Look no further!

🎃 Luaq O'Lantern's Head
🐰 Luaq O'Lantern's Ears
🎃 Luaq O'Lavender's Face
🐰 Luaq O'Lavender's Ears

Collect these four very rare Hunter items through Halloween crafting (explained below)!


[h2]How do I obtain Halloween items?[/h2]
Opening Witch It during the Halloween 2023 event will grant you 40 "Gloomkins"!
A Gloomkin contains a random Halloween item (including Halloween items from previous years), which can only be opened by combining them with "Haunted Candy". 🍬

To earn Haunted Candies, fill up the Item Cauldron with 250 experience points. You can see the item cauldron fill up at the end of the round, on the level up screen.

Haunted Candy has a 60% chance of being earned on any Official server once the item cauldron is filled, but must be earned on specific Halloween maps: Sleeping Rose Cemetery, Cursed Ruins, Grunewald Library or Grave Gulch. If you're lucky enough to earn one, head back to the main menu and press 'Halloween Event' to combine it with a Gloomkin!

Every Halloween 2023 item earned through Gloomkins are tradable and craftable even after the event is over. If you use up all your Gloomkins, you can craft more by combining 5 Haunted Candy together! 🍭
Note: Haunted Candy can only be obtained in Official servers.

You can also receive the new items through:
- Random drops from filling up the item cauldron at the end of a round.
- Trading with other players (we recommend using our Discord server to find traders).


Loving the Luaq O'Lanterns as much as we do? Pair up a matching limited-time icon! 🕯️
Play at least one round of Witch It in an Official server during the Halloween 2023 event to earn the icon, but be quick - after the event ends, it will no longer be obtainable!


We're aware of the performance decrease following the transfer of Witch It to Unreal Engine 5, and are making progress towards optimising. In our previous hotfix, we introduced a new "Reflections" slider in video settings, which can be lowered to improve performance. We've also resolved the problem where frame rate would decrease over the course of a match, as well as some glitches that were affecting players on lower graphics settings.

If you are reading this and have experienced frame rate problems previously, please try Witch It again following this update and let us know if you've noticed any improvement in your performance! 🖥️


There's still over a week left until our 9th GIF contest ends: "Fright Night"! 🕷️
If you're interested in winning one of three exclusive GIF Masters Hats, check out the contest details here!
Entries close on Friday, 27th October 2023 at 11pm (UTC)!


+ Added: Halloween 2023 Player Icon
+ Added: 4 new Halloween themed skin items

✓ Fixed: Possessed props sometimes falling automatically
✓ Fixed: Flames on Morgaryll Forest exist in any layout
✓ Fixed: Weathervane is shaking