2020 in preview: Wicca is a game with an awful lot of ideas Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. 2020 in preview: Wicca is a game with an awful lot of ideas From the co-creator of Sang-Froid. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Published on 8 Jan 2020 9 comments Now that 2020 is here we're having a little look ahead at some of the year's new games that have us intrigued. God, I'm excited about Wicca. Not only is it a follow-up to Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, one of the most interesting strategy/tactical hybrids I've ever played, but it also feels stuffed with the same level of ideas that Sang-Froid came with. Sang-Froid always felt like a game that had benefited from a certain degree of isolation. Let other games chase the easy pitch; instead, here's a 19th century story of brothers protecting a homestead from wolves and other beasties, a game about managing diminishing resources by placing traps and gadding around a map in real-time as you give your foes a wintry shoeing. Wicca retains the idea of managing a rangy map, and it drops in a world of magic and spells. You play as a character with a single health point but a bunch of otherworldly tricks to rely on. You can clone yourself to lay down overwhelming firepower, rope in trees and rocks to fence the oncoming hordes in and channel them into areas where they can be whittled down easily, and even connect distant points of the landscape with your own network of teleportation chambers. I've been watching the gameplay trailer over and over again since Wicca was announced and it still fills me with wonder and that wonderful kind of anxiousness that only a good strategy game can conjure. If you're interested in tower defence, or simply in games that chuck everything imaginable into the mix, Wicca is something to get very excited about. Want to hear our 2020 predictions and a preview of the year ahead? Give our podcast a listen through iTunes, Spotify, RSS, and SoundCloud: To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 12 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 59 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 4 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store