The Wolf Among Us
About the Game
The Wolf Among Us is a five-part adventure game series based on the Fables comic book series by Bill Willingham . The game is canon with the comic book universe and is set in the 1980s, thirty years before the first comic book. It describes an alternate version of our world where characters of our fairy tales and fables live in a separate world known as the Homelands ruled by a tyrant known as the Adversary. There are some who have fled the world, referred to as Fables , who has established a colony in the human world known as Fabletown, located in Manhattan in the USA.
Story & Setting
Each episode consists of six chapters.
Gameplay & Core Systems
In the game players controls Bigby Wolf, the reformed Big Bad Wolf who has now become sheriff of Fabletown. The gameplay is largely identical to The Walking Dead . The game is story-driven and incorporates decisions by players that are carried along for the entire game. There is a certain amount of freedom in exploration and sometimes multiple paths are offered, for instance in choosing where to go next. These objects are not always necessary to solve puzzles, but can improve relationships in conversations when the object is useful.
Standout Features
- Many objects in the environment can be examined and some can also be picked up and are stored in a separate inventory.
- Each episode ends with a sneak peek at the events in the next one and a new episode starts with a short recap.
- Conversations with key characters and solving small puzzles are the most important trigger to progress through the game.
- Many of the action sequences are shown as a cinematic or through quick-time events for players to act quickly.
- As in The Walking Dead , conversation options are almost always time limited and when players does not react in time, a decision is made automatically.
Modes & Ways to Play
On the PC the episodes were not released separately but only as a single season pack.
Presentation & Atmosphere
The game is filled with references and characters from famous fables such as Snow White, Beauty, Beast, Mr. Toad, Bluebeard, The Little Mermaid and Woodsman, but often with a grim attitude while most of the game has a noir, hardboiled atmosphere.
