The Wolf Among Us

About The Wolf Among Us

Bigby Wolf takes the law in a New York where fairy tale characters live in secret. This five-part series dropped in late 2013 from Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead. You play as the Sheriff of Fabletown investigating a brutal murder among your own kind. The story adapts Bill Willingham's comic books and mixes noir detective work with supernatural horror. It hits platforms like PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and mobile devices. The game asks you to make tough calls while navigating a world where everyone hides their true nature behind a glamour. Violence happens often, and choices carry weight throughout the chapters.

Gameplay

You move through static scenes by clicking on objects or people to interact with them. Conversations dominate the experience, requiring you to choose dialogue options that shape how characters react to Bigby. Sometimes you face quick time events during chase sequences or fights where timing matters. Investigations involve piecing together clues at crime scenes while questioning suspects who often lie to protect themselves. The pacing feels slow and deliberate until action breaks in suddenly. You spend most sessions talking, looking around rooms, and deciding how to handle threats without relying on combat skills alone.

What Players Think

Reviewers rated this title 82 on Metacritic and 81.6 on IGDB based on over a thousand votes. Players average significant time with the story because it demands attention. Community moods lean heavily toward atmospheric and emotional tones, with three specific votes marking the vibe as atmospheric alone. Story-driven gameplay remains the primary draw for this crowd. While the game currently sits at rank 86 on Twitch trending lists, dedicated fans keep discussing plot twists. The community feels invested in the consequences of your actions rather than just watching the story unfold passively.

PlayPile's Take

This title costs around $12 and offers a complete five-hour narrative experience with multiple endings based on your choices. It suits players who prefer strong writing over reflex-based challenges or complex combat systems. The achievement list tracks your decisions and exploration efforts, but it does not encourage grinding. Telltale's mechanics still hold up well enough for a modern replay, though the graphics show their age compared to 2024 standards. Grab this if you want a focused mystery that treats you like an adult rather than a child.

Storyline

The Wolf Among Us is set in the year 1986, nearly twenty years before the events of Fables. For years, many of the magical lands described in myth, legend, and folklore (known as The Homelands) have been occupied by an enigmatic tyrant known as the Adversary. To escape the Adversary's totalitarian regime, many of The Homelands inhabitants fled to colonial America, and created an enclave known as Fabletown, now located in modern-day Manhattan. To mask their presence from the native humans, all non-human fables have to purchase an enchantment known as a "glamour" which allows them to appear human, or be relocated to a rural community known as "The Farm". An evolution of Telltale's ground-breaking choice and consequence game mechanics will ensure the player learns that even as Bigby Wolf, Sheriff of Fabletown, life in the big bad city is bloody, terrifying and dangerous.