A trip through the Qazaq steppe
Fuck You Witch is a first-person walking simulator that mixes psychological horror with a strange, dark story. Your best friend has confessed her love for you, and on top of that you have started to hallucinate. These problems mess with your sleep, your eating, and your otherwise ideal lifestyle. As you move through the game you explore yurts in the Qazaq steppe, a post-Soviet apartment, and a couple more locations. Along the way you find hidden objects, work through riddles, saddle a horse, learn what camels like, take a crash course in sewing, discuss philosophy with others, and figure out how to cook beshbarmak. You also try to work out what kind of witch she is and why she is messing with you, while an Alsou chick shows up and maybe helps out.
How the group plays it together
The game is built as a singleplayer experience, so one person holds the controls and moves through the linear story. The group can watch along and react to the hallucinations, the riddles, and the stranger corners of the map as they come up. Remote Play Together is listed as a Steam feature, which gives your group a way to join in from the same session. The story stays focused on one character's journey, so the shared part is mostly in the commentary and the reactions rather than in taking separate roles.
Microphone and swearing at the witch
The core mechanic is your microphone. You yell Russian obscenities at the witch to drive her away, and the main character swears on your behalf. If your mom is home and you cannot shout, you can disable the microphone and fall back to a keyboard or gamepad instead. Either way, wear headphones, since the character speaks your words out loud and the chance of getting a bollocking from your parents is high. The game runs about two hours on average, so plan for a short session. It carries dark, psychedelic, and psychological horror themes with sexual content, so check that everyone in the room is fine with that before you start. The text is machine translated into French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, and Japanese.