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# Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/witchmarsh-massachusetts/
- Published: 2014-05-20T22:12:42.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:37:32.000Z
- Description: Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to video
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, baldur's gate, Kickstarter, pixel art, witchmarsh, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs *Witchmarsh*. At least that’s what history according to videogames [crowdfunded on Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1027299776/witchmarsh?ref=killscreen.com) taught me, which is, for the record, the most fun but least accurate way to learn history.

Witchmarsh looks to be a solidly put-together little production, with thematic touches of swing dancing and Victorian New England. But perhaps it’s the action that looks most intriguing, seeming to blend the collect-athoning from Iga’s *Castlevanias* with, according to the dev, *Baldur’s Gate* RPGing, and some good ol’ *Huck Finn*\-reminiscent train-hopping.