Kickstarter campaign launched for open-world life simulation game The Witch of Fern Island - Gematsu

Polish developer Enjoy Studio has launched a Kickstarter campaign for open-world beingness simulation game The Witch of Fern Island. It is seeking €15,000 successful funding.

The Witch of Fern Island is planned for an Early Access merchandise for PC via Steam successful Q1 2023, followed by a afloat merchandise crossed consoles and PC successful Q1 2024.

“We privation radical playing The Witch of Fern Island to bask the advancement resulting from the slow-paced, yet satisfying gameplay,” said Enjoy Studio crippled manager Patryk Pietraszkiewicz successful a property release. “Our crippled tin beryllium classified arsenic a ‘cozy game,’ but we wanted it to go thing more. The magical satellite of Fern Island is palpable successful some gameplay and communicative levels. It allows america to contiguous people’s stories from a much personal, deeper perspective.”

Here is an overview of the game, via Enjoy Studio:

About

The Witch of Fern Island is simply a caller crippled from Polish developer Enjoy Studio. Players volition instrumentality the relation of a young miss called Abrill, who wants to go a certified Witch. The communicative takes spot connected the titular Fern Island–an alternate satellite heavy influenced by 3 antithetic cultures inhabiting it and shrouded successful a magical aura with fantastic fauna and flora. The player’s task is to walk the world internship successful bid to implicit the Witches exam. Abrill volition unrecorded connected the island, bringing assistance and enactment to the section community. It is up to the subordinate to find the destiny of this onshore and its people. Players volition beryllium escaped to research a immense unfastened satellite connected foot, mounted, oregon connected a flying broomstick!

The Witch of Fern Island highlights the value of civilization successful quality life. Getting to cognize the inhabitants and their problems from Abrill’s position volition let you to bespeak connected the hunt for happiness and intent successful life. The characters’ idiosyncratic stories thatch that elemental gestures of kindness tin alteration people’s lives and revitalize a divided community. However, it each depends connected what way the subordinate volition follow, arsenic Abrill’s behaviour volition beryllium assessed, arsenic a portion of the internship.

The Witch of Fern Island combines gameplay elements of aggregate categories: sandbox, unfastened satellite with RPG elements, adventure, and exploration. The crippled has nary end, the regular and calendar systems let players to consciousness the transition of time—they tin observe changes successful the community, the seasons of the twelvemonth and instrumentality portion successful assorted holidays and festivals. There volition ever beryllium absorbing activities connected Fern Island! Fishing, photography, archeology, catching insects, researching section flora and fauna, oregon participating successful festivals and games! All this and much volition let you to acquisition an immersive escapade arsenic a existent witch!

Key Features

• Witchcraft – characters’ accomplishment progression includes learning caller spells, rituals, and exploring magical knowledge. The player’s operational halfway is Birch Grove. We springiness the subordinate a gathering that tin beryllium personalized and furnished according to idiosyncratic preferences. Here, the subordinate tin trade caller magic potions, store the acquired items, rest, merchantability created items to the island’s inhabitants, and overmuch more! An arsenic important spot is the farm, wherever the subordinate tin turn plants, vegetables and herbs, portion experimenting with their magical varieties. The subordinate besides has to instrumentality attraction of fantastic animals that tin beryllium bred connected the farm.
• Exploration – Fern Island is simply a colorful, lively and divers satellite that hides galore secrets. As the crippled progresses, players volition unlock caller passages that let them to scope unexplored places. By discovering idiosyncratic parts of the island, players tin find caller ingredients and characters with whom they tin interact. This volition grow the scope of disposable options for the subordinate and supply entree to accusation that enables solving age-old mysteries. Noteworthy is the reflector representation of the world—“Astra,” which players volition beryllium capable to entree done the portals hidden connected the island. It is an alternate world, which tin lone beryllium entered by characters with magical abilities—such arsenic Abrill.
• Town – There is simply a municipality connected the island, wherever players volition find inhabitants surviving their lives. They person dreams, problems, and antithetic quality traits—each 1 is antithetic and unique. During the day, they work, oregon walk their escaped clip successful their ain way, they slumber astatine nighttime and during the holidays—have amusive astatine jointly organized parties. They stock a communal enslaved and their relationships that are not ever friendly. Inhabitants person assorted problems that the subordinate tin assistance to resolve, and frankincense power their fate. A municipality is simply a spot wherever players tin find shops, restaurants, bars, and places of section culture.

Watch the authoritative trailer below. View the archetypal screenshots at the gallery.

Official Trailer