Guise of the Wolf Demo

Just like vampires and various other mythic creatures that come out at night, werewolves have a long history behind them, with plenty of interesting tales that have lived on to this day. Naturally, many of them were turned into books or movies, while the video games industry took its fair share of the profits as well, thanks to all the titles that abused the idea.

Guise of the Wolf is an adventure game with an inclination toward horror and puzzle solving, although it does each one of these wrong. In fact, the game feels and plays like something you might sketch on a napkin in the coffee shop, if you also happened to be bad at drawing and missing a few fingers. In essence, the whole thing is unpolished, exaggerated, childish, ugly, slow, and most of all, annoying every step of the way.

The story starts in a dark forest near a castle, where your character comes to his senses after being attacked by some sort of wolf-ish creature. Oh, the mystery. Soon, the game tells you that you’re an alchemist and that you must find a cure for your curse, otherwise you’ll turn into a werewolf and do bad things to good people. Hence, you must gather the required ingredients and deal with a few childish jump scares every now and again.

The game suffers from almost every flaw you can think off, starting with the bad dialog and the incredibly long loading times, all the way to crappy level design and more invisible walls than you can imagine. Not only that, but there are also invisible scripts you must follow without knowing about them, because otherwise you can’t advance. Hence, you must walk all around the level before being able to move forward, because if you happen to miss a jump scare screen, you are stuck.

Visually, the game would be considered good-looking in the right circumstances, such as if this were 1999 and no one has ever seen a 3D graphics engine before. But since it’s not and the game was released in 2014, there are few things uglier or more badly designed than this, but thankfully no one is asking money for those. Hence, you should be prepared to deal with awful shaders, flat textures, and a disturbing dark outline that was left in the final product, for some reason.

In the end, Guise of the Wolf fails to feature even a single strong point, which actually makes your decision that much easier to take. Thus, unless you want to poke fun at something and you do not mind burning a few bucks for nothing, this can probably provide you with a few minutes of laughter.