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Jody Macgregor

One of the first games made in the Build Engine is about to be delisted

An armored warrior with red eyes from the cover art for Witchaven.

The Witchaven games are not the most beloved first-person slashers of the 1990s, but they're an important bit of history. Developed by Capstone, they're first-person slashers loosely based on a set of dungeon maps for D&D released by Wyrm Works. You're a knight with a variety of mostly melee weapons and a few spells, and a volcano full of goblins, witches, and other greeblies to kill.

Though you do have access to a bow, a lot of the time you'll be fighting with a morning star, battle axe, and various blades, switching as they break. Like most first-person melee games of the era, and frankly today, judging the distance between you and the enemies was a bit, ha ha, hit and miss.

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