The following article was updated for 2015. The Witch Girl Game by Alex de Beer is available now on Google Play.
I came across this game the other day. Not just because it is really strange to see a young woman on the cover of an Android game, but because it's one of the best games I've played in recent times on a mobile platform. It's a little arcade-ish, but so what? I love a bit of that, and there's loads of replay value. It's the story that caught my eye.
The Witch Girl
As you can see on the cover the main character, The Witch Girl, is very tall. If you look close she actually appears to be holding the tablet upside down. The Witch Girl is a young woman who lives in a small village in rural England. One night she is awoken by the voice of the dead.
It tells her she has been cursed and she must find a djinni to fulfil a task. Unfortunately it is she who must do this task. She is told that she has to look in the graveyard for a certain grave which holds the djinni who can help her. When she goes to the graveyard she is attacked by an ogre. The ogre chases her along the paths through the graveyard, scaring her by occasionally running down the paths and then using its oar to try to knock her down and either crush her or grab her hair and yank her backwards.
Along the way there are several points where she is attacked by the graveyard watch and she has to escape the graveyard watch by breaking down a wall or jump over the cemetery walls. On one of these walls there is an archway. She could enter it and go through to find the last djinni but the ogre is following her. At this point she is forced to jump over the ogre. It then falls down the side of the hill and into a lake.
The ogre keeps croaking. Along the way she is attacked by a bear, but she has an element of protection because there is a blue flame-like aura around her. She finds a grave which holds the djinni that she is looking for. The djinni is a cat. He tells her he is hers. He advises her to return to her village and not to go through the gate as she will be seen by the ogre. The Witch Girl tells the djinni she will do what he asks. She returns to her village and her mother tells her that the
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