Your darkest fears will awaken in these woods.
It’s 1996. A young boy disappears in the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland. As Ellis, a former police officer with a troubled past, you join the search. What starts as an ordinary investigation soon turns into an endless nightmare as you c...
It’s 1996. A young boy disappears in the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland. As Ellis, a former police officer with a troubled past, you join the search. What starts as an ordinary investigation soon turns into an endless nightmare as you confront your fears and the Blair Witch, a mysterious force that haunts the woods…
Blair Witch is a first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of Blair Witch.
A STORY OF THE HUMAN DESCENT INTO DARKNESS
From the creative minds behind the critically acclaimed Layers of Fear, experience first-hand the toll that fear can take on the mind in an original story inspired by the cinematic lore of Blair Witch.
FIND THE WAY THROUGH THE HAUNTED WOODS
Navigate your way through a cursed forest that warps and distorts both time and space.
YES, YOU CAN PET THE DOG
You're not going in alone: you have your trusty canine sidekick, Bullet, by your side. You can encourage him with treats, or discipline him for wandering off - but know that how you choose to treat him affects your story.
YOUR SANITY AGAINST HER CURSE
Stand against the horrors of the Blair Witch and the decaying sanity of a man burdened by his past.
HOW WILL YOU FACE YOUR FEARS?
As you delve deeper into the woods, how you react to danger and behave under pressure will ultimately teach you more about yourself.
If you buy this, I recommend that you try it out within the first 30 days after purchase, to see how well the game works on your machine, while you can still get a refund.
About 15 minutes into the game, at the point where I picked up the camera, the game crashed. This happens every time for me, so it's not possible to progress further. I thought that it might be due to running the game on Linux. However, checking the forums, I saw other posts describing similar problems, from users running different versions of Windows. This kind of dashed my hopes of getting it to run on a Windows machine...
From what I was able to play, and from what I saw in a letsplay on YT, the game looks great and has a really good atmosphere. But it looks like it's getting no attention at all from the developers here. So, again, check that it works for you.
Just finished.
The end is inevitably predictable but the atmosphere is really oppressive and very scary.
Its more like the Blair Witch from 2016 but the gameplay is quite guud (sometimes VERY boring if u turn and turn and turn ... loop game so)
If u liked the 2016 moovie then u should definitely playing it. Dont Miss it.
The potential is there but the execution is not.
Good graphics but not amazing, amazing sound and ambience, awesome setting, awfull save system that makes you repeat entire sections of the game everytime you die ou come back to the game, horrible looping sections where you just keep going around and around in a trial and error maze with little to none blair witch tension or lore alive.
I like the theme but this game falls flat, buy only if you really like the theme and to torture yourself through repetition.
Overall , the flaws overcome the charms, and for that made me lose interest.
I'll come back once i find a way or a mod to savestate.
As a huge fan of the Blair Witch franchise, I expected more, frankly.
Cons: The game's short. Like, you could finish this in a day (if you can deal with the confusing where-to-go issues). The mechanics feel under-utilized. (Combat is brief, just shining light at fast-moving vague things in the woods, and that's when you're not just avoiding them, later). The cellphone, walkie-talkie, even the camcorder with it's spirit-vision & rewind-to-alter-reality features seem... just under-utilized, only in very specific cases. Heck, you don't even get to use "camcorder-vision" until nearly the end.
Pros: The Dog is well done, the darkness & light and flashlight effects are excellent, the sense of isolation is well done and attention to detail.
Ultimately, is it a good Blair Witch story? Not really. It has almost nothing to do with the Blair Witch, the franchise title is nothing but a generic vague "threat" that "wants" the main character. It's ultimately a "Guy with a troubled past and PTSD, stuck in the woods alone" simulator.
I feel like Bloober team **so badly** wanted to do Silent Hill 2 years in advance, and this was their attempt. A man with a vague past he doesn't remember due to trauma, going to a place where his fears surround him. Sounds exactly like Silent Hill 2, just without the town setting and such.
Far too much randomly wandering around in circles in the same wooded areas, I know it's meant to invoke feelings of dread and confusion, but it just feels like it's dragging out the expeience.
Especailly the cabin at the end of the game. TONS of running through doors & hallways that constantly change behind you as you have flashbacks, just to go back in/out the same doors & stairs, for a solid hour or more, to the point it's actually getting tiring.
A good solid attempt, but just an average game, with no real connection to the Blair Witch itself.
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