If you’re anything like me, you eat up anything supernatural. Especially werewolves. I’d like to think my parents letting me watch Buffy and Bram Stoker’s Dracula probably earlier than they should have, had a hand in the obsession continuing into my 20’s.
So when I saw the trailer for Werewolves Within, thinking I knew what I was about to watch, I was pleasantly surprised.
It plays on my favourite type of party game. You know, the ones where you’re each assigned a role, and you play out the evening trying to figure out which one of you is a murderer? The players are cliché fairy-tale characters like a villager, a gypsy, a merchant, as well as assigned roles like the tracker, the deceiver, turn cloak, and of course, the wolf.
The end goal is, through timed conversations with the online players around the campfire, convince the others of your innocence, and figure who among you is going to be ‘condemned to their doom’.
Not enough? Your character is designed to mimic their actions to the tone of your voice. You can even ‘whisper’, meaning no one else in the group will hear you, to the player beside you, like every successful situation in life. Because nothing drives other people crazy like secrets.
So how strong are your people skills? How about your ability to detect a lie? Or maybe in a past life you were a villager who just liked to point the finger a cry ‘Witch! Witch!’.
Werewolves Within is going to put you to the test. As well as raise questions about your previously perceived trustworthy friend.
The catch? It’s designed for the VR systems like Oculus and PlayStation VR. Which I guess isn’t really ‘a catch’ at all, but maybe a perk, depending if you’re a pessimist or an optimist. And how much christmas money you still have in that sock under your mattress.
But don’t stress if that sock is doing better at losing it’s holiday weight than you are. You still have some time to save up because Werewolves Within isn’t set to release until Autumn this year.
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