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Witching Hour is a standalone game, made by M2 Software. It was released on October 31, 2014.

Description[]

Released on Halloween and deliberately meant as having a scary theme, the game starts out as in a horror movie, at a car wreck deep in dark forest. The player must fight through a large forest, encountering various supernatural beings, monsters with a guarantee for quite a scare.

All assets have been replaced, making for a definite horror theme with an ominous vibe that stands out in general Wolfenstein 3D modding and making it one of the few standalone games using the Wolf4SDL engine. Playing the game in full screen especially underlines this effect.

If the player beats the game, it is possible to play on Survival Mode; here the player will gather people out of the forest and back to safety, though this can indeed prove a challenge.

According to Atina of M2 Software, the first release was done in a week's time.

Witching Hour has been featured in a small article of the Polish retro game magazine print (CD-Action's Special Retro Issue 02/2017) covering Wolfenstein 3D, as well as the fanzine Dreamcast Extreme 2024. In 2024 it made it into the Dreamcast Junkyard's Top 25 Dreamcast Indies via people's votes.

Namesake[]

Witching Hour is also the name of a song by black metal group Venom, further adding to the dark horror theme. The term goes much further back, being described as being a particular time of night where supernatural events may occur, which serves the game's purpose well.

Ports[]

There have been several ports to various systems over the course of time including Android, Dreamcast, GCW Zero and TI Nspire CX. The GCW and Nspire ports were both done by Gameblabla. The Dreamcast and Android versions received some adjustments with a few additional improvements. Among the additions are being able to pick an easier difficulty level, story screens, making use of the Dreamcast's VMU, ai-adjustment for strafe-running, linear filtering on the Android and the option to change the game's brightness.

The Dreamcast version received two very limited physical releases that included various goodies such as a poster, a woodcut and a cross-stitch patch.

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