I know we've all been waiting for this game for quite some time, but is anyone actually excited for when the game comes out? Every time I come into this community to see news and sneak peeks of content I'm bombarded by posts just being extremely negative. I get being frustrated about the timeline of the game but I feel like it's getting a little overboard.

There are so many other things to be doing/games to be playing while we wait. I don't understand why everyone is so upset. The devs want the game to be as good as possible and I'm fine with waiting. I'm fine with playing other games that might come out or games on my backlog while I wait. I'm still very excited about that game, but I feel like there are a lot of people here that aren't? I don't understand why come to complain about the same things over and over instead of just pushing it out of your mind until the game arrives.

Maybe I'm just being too optimistic, but its really disheartening to see so many people still in this community that seem to just want to be negative, when I just want to see new pieces of content every now and again.

So I hope there are people here who are still excited for when the game actually comes out, because I definitely am and can't wait to play it.

Tiy gave some further updates about the current progress of the game through the final stages of development.

He stated that localisation and porting are ongoing, the CF are now working on bug fixes and polishing. He was open about the fact that they could run into Christmas closures but reassured that this would only mean a delay to January at the latest.

Aside from a release or announcement (to the cheeky monkeys who were about to answer that way.)

I'm personally just really looking forward to the school system itself. I've always been a big fan of university-type mechanics in other games (Sims University, mainly) and I love checklists to succeed.

The thing I'm looking forward to least is probably the wand pattern mechanic. I didn't like it in Moonlight Peaks and I don't think I'll like it here (especially if the foraging one needs cast every single time you want to collect a seed, as opposed to being active for a certain time or radius.)

Thoughts?

It's gone quiet again and I'm starting to get nervous. No date, no preorders, no hype push, nothing.
Part of me still hopes for a Halloween drop, but after last year's delay this silence feels kinda familiar. What are you guys thinking, still this year or 2027?

Everyone seems convinced they won’t drop the game in November because of GTA6, so I’d like to know what the actually crossover between those to games. So who here plays GTA games or is planning to play GTA6?

Edit: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED! I did not think I would get this many responses! I’m going to read through the responses and then post my official findings if anyone cares lol

A few months back I predicted on here that the game would release the week of Halloween, just feels like the perfect game for that. And it just barely gets them out of the GTA 6 line of fire. Would be a fun pickup to work on for like 20 days before GTA 6 drops, if not I don’t see them dropping until late December.

Thoughts? Has there been any more updates I’m unaware of? Is a release date looking more or less likely

Unless they changed their mind and I missed it, they mentioned that there will not be combat added yet to the 1.0 release of their game.

So enjoy it as it is when it does come out!

Superconsole just posted a series of images to Discord describing how photography works in game.

1. The photo gallery in the back of the Briny Brush
2. An example of a photo bounty/quest
3. Shows film options
4. Shows the camera UI
5. Shows your photo Album
6. Shows a miniature version of your exact photo gets displayed in the gallery when you submit it.

Is it normal that we haven't had any devblogs or character reveals for Witchbrook in the past month? I'd gotten used to discovering new characters and seeing new aspects of the game. It's too bad, because they seemed to be on a roll with character reveals...

Do you think they're working on something?

I don't think we'll get Witchbrook this month, but i have a feeling we'll get the release date. (Yes, my sole reason is because it's October, witches, and Halloween)

If anyone’s looking for a game to tide them over until the release I‘ve been enjoying Little Witch in the Woods it’s got a similar pixel art theme and you play as an apprentice witch. It’s been giving me the cosy witchy vibes I know Witchbrook will give 🧙‍♀️

I’ve been waiting on this forever and Im hoping it’s released in October… I think that would be on theme to be honest.

I feel like we are never getting this game released, I was sooo excited for it but then delays came and now Idek when it's gonna be released

Anyone going to pick this up, just released today. Maybe it’ll help tide us over?

Some examples of the cooking UI, showing the timing based mechanic, some burnt food, and some campfire cooking.

So do we know if. when you're flying around will the NPCs walking around town knowledge that you're flying like look up at you Periodically and all that

Also do we know if there's other NPCs flying Around as transportation as well a little weird if you're the only one ever on the broom in the sky at academy full of witches

Not included: when asked if October was off the table, Tiy said “I’ll update on timelines asap,” likely meaning it’s possible!