Mossport

Mossport is the coastal city in which Witchbrook is set. It houses Witchbrook College, a busy high street of shops and cafes, the golden beaches of Parasol Sands, the wooded trails of Shadhollow Forest, and hundreds of named residents with their own homes and routines. Chucklefish has described Mossport as the beating heart of the game, a pastel seaside town where magic is woven into ordinary life and where every student of the college builds their day-to-day life as a witch.

The city is the single playable hub for almost everything Witchbrook offers. Classes, friendships, romances, shops, festivals, and civic witchcraft jobs all play out across its streets, beaches, forest trails, and college grounds. For a fuller summary of the game itself, see the Overview.

Setting and Atmosphere

Mossport sits on the coast, with a working harbour, a long stretch of beach, and a wooded hinterland pressed up against the town's edge. The overall aesthetic is warm and pastel, with cobblestoned lanes, timber-framed buildings, and sandstone facades that nod to the Cambridge tradition the college itself draws on. The developers have described the city's design goal plainly: every corner should feel lived-in and warm, with one location flowing naturally into the next rather than sitting behind a load screen.

Magic is treated as an everyday part of that setting. Ordinary residents rely on witches from the college for small problems, students ride brooms over the rooftops, mopeds weave along the streets, and shopkeepers enchant mannequins or charmed signs as a normal part of running a business. The town is meant to read as a place where the magical and the mundane share the same pavement rather than as a fantasy enclave sealed off from the rest of the world.

The day and night cycle runs continuously from morning through afternoon, evening, and night, with daylight hours stretching in summer and shrinking in winter. Weather shifts across rain, sun, and snow, and the whole city reacts: residents pull on scarves and mittens, open umbrellas in the rain, and swap their layered outfits for lighter tops when the warmer seasons return.

Key Locations

The playable area of Mossport is divided into distinct zones that connect on foot, by broom, or by moped. The table below collects the named locations Chucklefish has confirmed so far, including the neighbourhoods around the college, the town's main commercial strip, and the surrounding natural areas.

Other named storefronts confirmed on the high street include Olive's, Caffeina, and Harbour Homes, which appear alongside Calico in seasonal decoration sweeps when the town dresses its windows for holidays. The full map of Mossport has been partly revealed in a development update, with the coloured areas all marked as playable and each region flowing into the next without hard transitions.

Residents and NPC Archetypes

Mossport is populated by hundreds of unique residents, each with their own name, appearance, home, and daily routine. Chucklefish has stressed that every single one of those residents is simulated continuously, not just the ones nearby. The city runs on a dual-fidelity simulation: high detail for the space around the player and a lower-fidelity tracking layer for the rest of town, so nobody is ever teleported back into place when the player returns.

The named cast sits on top of a broader population of archetype NPCs who fill out the city. The most common archetypes Chucklefish has described include:

Routines and wardrobes shift in response to the weather, the season, and special events. Residents swap in scarves and mittens when winter arrives, carry umbrellas when it rains, and change their clothing layers when the town dresses itself up for a festival. Because the same logic applies to every NPC, the city visibly changes mood as the calendar turns, not just around the player.

Transportation

Getting around Mossport is a core part of daily play, and Witchbrook gives each student three layered ways to move through the city. On foot is the default for the high street and the college grounds, where most classes, shops, and short errands sit within walking distance. For longer trips and the parts of town that spread further along the coast, students can swap to a broom or a moped.

The traffic system underneath all of this is a full simulation in its own right. Cars follow British road rules, signal their turns, and yield to pedestrians, while the bus keeps to a regular route that any resident or visitor can ride. For students who would rather skip the broom entirely, the moped and the bus together make it possible to live a full life in Mossport without ever leaving the ground.

Events and Festivals

Mossport's calendar is punctuated by public events that draw the entire town together. The most prominent confirmed so far is the Spring Festival, also called the Annual Tulip Festival, held on the 20th of Spring at Meadowlark Farm. The date is chosen to land on the day the tulip fields reach full bloom, and the farm fills with pop-up stalls selling seasonal food, artisan goods, tulips, and souvenirs. Students notoriously compete for the mini-windmill souvenirs and their colour variants, with the pastel shades in particular being the most sought-after pieces each year.

Winter in Mossport brings its own cluster of festive activity. Residents string fairy lights across their porches, shopkeepers dress their windows with candy canes and baubles, bus stops pick up large red bows, and the town's street lamps wear winter garlands. Broomriding through the decorated city is one of the main seasonal activities, with the game's composer even writing special seasonal variants of the broomriding music to match the shift in mood.

Smaller community events thread through the rest of the year as well, tied to the changing seasons and to the college's own academic year. These give the player scheduled excuses to dress up, run into NPCs they may not see in their usual routines, and practice the civic side of witchcraft for the benefit of the town.

Seasons in Mossport

Mossport cycles through four distinct seasons that reshape both the town's look and the activities available to its residents. Resources, employment opportunities, and even the decorations on individual streets all shift as the calendar turns.

Because every NPC responds to the same seasonal logic, the visible face of Mossport changes alongside the player. A walk down the high street in winter looks materially different from the same walk in spring, not because the map has been swapped but because the residents, shops, and decorations have all adjusted to the current moment.

Connection to Witchbrook College

Mossport and Witchbrook College are written as two halves of the same place rather than as separate hubs. The college sits inside the city, its student village bleeds into the surrounding neighbourhoods, and the town's ordinary residents routinely call on the college's young witches for help. The everyday loop of enrolment, classes, and graduation plays out against the backdrop of the same streets where students shop, eat, and socialise.

The clearest expression of that link is civic witchcraft. Students take the skills they learn in class and apply them to the town's small daily problems through home consultations and similar jobs, turning Mossport itself into a practical classroom. Over the course of an academic year, the city is where a young witch finds their feet, builds a coven, picks a romance, and settles into being part of the place rather than just a student passing through.