My Mom is a Witch

My Mom is a Witch is a single-player or co-op action game about rescuing your mother after the king’s guards take her to the castle. As you fight your way inside, you also encounter a thief who has stolen a goblin artifact, prompting goblins to attack. You can play alone or with up to four players in local or online co-op.

Dungeons and combat

Explore non-linear, procedurally generated dungeons filled with random monster encounters, shops, treasure rooms and challenge rooms. Each level ends with a boss, and you can fight with melee weapons, magic or archery. There are 28 bosses to encounter, with three or more specific bosses assigned to each area and appearing randomly across playthroughs.

You can complete NPC quests to unlock playable characters, use one of 42 pet companions, drink random potions to strengthen yourself or make the challenge harder, and identify and use magic scrolls. Every weapon has a distinct ability or attack type, and items have their own uses or mechanics. You can approach a boss in different ways, such as using a melee weapon, petrifying it with Medusa Arrows or using a magic scroll to skip the fight and move on.

Heroes

Choose from ten heroes, each with different starting weapons and items and different Melee, Magic and Archery skill levels. Quests unlock additional characters.

• Knight: specializes in melee combat and starts with armor that reduces damage.
• Sorceress: attacks with ranged magic and can create food to heal players.
• Druid: attacks with ranged magic and can add poison to any weapon.
• Pyromancer: shoots fireballs and is immune to fire.
• Archer: masters bows and arrows and starts with an extra inventory slot.
• Skeleton Ranger: cannot eat or drink, and grows stronger by collecting bones from fallen enemies.
• Barbarian: builds rage faster for special melee attacks, carries a unique weapon and pays more for magic spells.
• Paladin: fights in melee, knows some magic, has a divine shield and deals extra damage to undead.
• Alchemist: specializes in potions and summons a Golem to fight alongside them.
• Lich: uses life energy instead of mana, changing how the character plays.

Weapons and items

Find or take weapons, potions, scrolls and other items to improve your strength, magic and other abilities. The game has over 130 items and weapons with different effects, and many can work together in combinations. For example, a Gold Diet potion lets you eat gold, while an Appetite potion boosts its effect and lets you restore more health. A Voodoo Doll lets you damage enemies from a distance; combining it with a high-damage item such as a Meteor Staff or Bomb can increase the damage. The Celestial Smasher hammer deals 200 damage per hit, and striking an enemy marked by a Voodoo Doll can deal 400 damage in one hit.

Other combinations can boost your power or change how you approach a fight. A status effect increases your stats when you have more gold; a Portable Foundry turns any item into gold, while Avarice multiplies the gold you collect. A potion that increases stomping damage can pair with a Horse pet, which triples stomp damage. You can knock enemies down with hammers or the Violent Sword, then use stomps and the sword’s dashing attack to build rage and continue attacking.

Weapons can also work together: poison enemies with the Snake Staff, then finish them with the Enchanter’s Warbreaker hammer to gain mana. Mana can be spent on spells, potions, bombs and gold. The Rogue Sword can hide you while a Turret Staff’s automated turrets attack; pets such as the bull, which lets you use the Rogue Sword’s ability in every battle without building rage through combat, and the lizard, which grants an extra mana point after each battle, can support this approach.

Bows and special arrows offer further options. Ice Arrows freeze an enemy temporarily and leave it slowed afterward, while other special arrows can be saved for bosses and difficult enemies.

Pets

Adopt one of 42 companions, each with a different effect. The Penguin freezes enemies, the Ram knocks them down, the Bat attacks in the air, and the Chicken points out the path with the fewest enemies. The Dog fetches hard-to-reach items and weapons, the Turtle serves as an unbeatable decoy, and the Bird’s feathers improve your archery skill. Finding a Wolf lets you keep multiple pets at once.

Areas and enemies

The game spans eight areas: the forest, battlements, keep, dungeon, catacombs, desert, hell and frozen mountain. Each area has its own enemies, drawn from eight factions: Goblins, King’s Guards, Thieves, Undead (including skeletons, zombies and vampires), Ice Mountain Clan, Desert Mercenaries, Demons, and Animals. Animals include wild boars and dragons you can ride, bugs that drop weapon upgrades, bats and hornets. Each faction has regular units as well as larger, tougher special enemies.

Game modes

In the standard mode, death starts a new game in a newly generated world. Levels, enemy numbers and types, treasures and shop inventories vary between runs, so you receive a different selection of weapons, items and enemies and may need to change your strategy. The game also has an RPG mode for players who do not want permadeath: you keep everything and restart only the last level.