Video games are lousy with both current and upcoming witches these days.

They’ve already got brilliant marketing.

And when I say everything there really is the potential for everything to catch fire.

A composite image split into thirds. Left to right: a screen from Noita showing lava tumbling towards the witch, Bayonetta from Bayonetta, and the witch in Wytchwood ambling around the swamp

Every pixel in Noita is simulated, and there is a complex physics system to boot.

Coal burns more slowly than wood, which burns more slowly than oil.

Wytchwood

I’m still completely in love withWytchwood.

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What it is, then, is a shopping list game.

And it’s so lovely to look at that you could’t begrudge it a single second.

Her little animated expressions areone of my favourite things about it.

A small witch is about to be swallowed by a giant worm in Noita.

In fact, the animation full stop is just very sarcastic.

Your daily routine is intensely restful.

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A little witch outside her hut in the woods in a Little Witch in the Woods screenshot.

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A screen from Witchy Life Story showing your open grimoire listing the uses and effects of different plants