High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hexen: Beyond Heretic (styled as HeXen: Beyond Heretic) is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on October 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994`s Heretic, and the second game in Raven`s "Serpent Riders" series. The title comes from the German noun "Hexen", which means "witches" or the verb "hexen" which means "to cast a spell".