With The Astronauts , Chmielarz was able to hire in some of the People Can Fly developers to build out smaller , story-focused games . Their first game was '' The Vanishing of Ethan Carter '' , which was released in September 2014 . The game is a horror-themed adventure game , with the player investigating a mystery involving the paranormal . Chmielarz considered it a spiritual successor to the cancelled '' Come Midnight '' project . The game was critically successful , and received the Best Game Innovation award at the 2015 British Academy Games Awards . The studio 's second title , '' Witchfire '' , was revealed during The Game Awards 2017 in December of that year . The trailer revealed the game to be a first-person shooter in addition to exploration from '' The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ''
The Game Awards 2017
The Game Awards 2017
The Astronauts (company)