Sulfur Game Final Boss Guide: How to Beat the Witch

The final boss in Sulfur is the Witch, fought beyond the veil inside the burning church after clearing the desert. You must counter her clones, laser obstacles, and summoned hand beasts across multiple shifting phases.

Preparing for this encounter demands heavy restoration items and weapons with durable damage output, because entering the final chapter disables your standard church escape routes.

How Do You Reach and Prepare for the Witch?

The Wise Old Woman is the final adversary waiting past the ominous giant wall at the edge of the desert. Walking through the veil locks your run into a single path back to the burning church [0]. Your teleport amulet cannot return you home once you enter this threshold, making death a complete loss of carried loot [0]. Returning to town through the altar before stepping beyond the veil lets you store unnecessary items in your pink chest and repair your loadout at Ralphie's counter [0].

A reliable setup balances close-range burst damage with mid-range precision. Equipping best weapons such as an upgraded assault rifle or high-caliber firearm ensures you can burst clones and targets without burning through limited magazines. Stacking food recipes like grilled cactus slices or hot dishes before the fight provides sustainable passive healing [0]. You trigger the encounter inside the church interior by picking up the amulet resting before the transformed Witch [0].

What Happens During the Witch Boss Phases?

The encounter is a multistage battle alternating between arena shootouts and platforming obstacle rooms [0]. When the fight begins, the Witch teleports across the nave while casting clones to split your attention [0]. Firing at the duplicates reveals the authentic target immediately, as clones vanish after taking direct fire [0].

As she takes damage, she scatters yellow glowing mines across the floor stones [0]. Staying on the move prevents detonation damage while tracking her repositioning cues [0]. When returning to her standard humanoid stance, she stomps to send expanding shockwaves outward that require timed jumps [0].

After losing approximately 40% of her total health, she transforms into a sulfur entity, shifting the fight into an obstacle gauntlet [0]. You jump over sweeping laser beams while maintaining sustained weapons fire against the floating Witch [0].

Dealing sufficient damage in the laser chamber teleports you back to the nave, where she scatters black orbs onto the ground [0]. These orbs hatch into the large sulfur hand beasts encountered throughout the forest [0]. Taking these heavy adds down quickly is mandatory before they overwhelm the perimeter [0]. After falling below 50% health, the sequence repeats at higher velocity: lasers sweep faster, projectile volleys become denser, and flying crows swarm alongside floor mines until her life bar empties [0].

What Unlocks After You Defeat the Final Boss?

Victory against the Witch triggers the narrative resolution leading into the ending loop. Defeating her forces the boss to flee the premises, scattering reward items across the floor for extraction [0].

1. Gather all high-tier items dropped on the church stones before interacting with the vehicle [0].
2. Step outside to access your car and drive down the opening highway [0].
3. Complete the road sequence until your car crashes into the familiar tree outside the cave entrance [0].
4. Return to the hub to find endless mode accessible through the hatch beside Arthur in the church basement [0].

Completing the story loop also updates your save profile on the official Steam store page with campaign completion progress [0], granting access to repeatable endgame trials without resetting stored armaments.

Sources: SULFUR: official Steam data, Official announcement: Patch Notes 0.18.5

Where does this guide's official Sulfur game information come from?

Official details in this guide follow Sulfur game on Steam, which describes the game in its own words.

SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.

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