Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
Developer Different Tales
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold? From the Steam store page
255 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
69 positive · 17 negative
95% range 71–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 10 | 2 | 139 |
| Steam reviews | 69 | 17 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
74 of 91 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 70 yes, 17 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 87 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (87 of 110 positive).
Players praise the improved RPG mechanics and choice-driven narrative over the previous game. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the political and LGBTQ+ themes heavy-handed or out of place. [4][5][6] The game is considered short, with a playtime of around three to four hours. [7][8][9]
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- [5]
This is a very brief game for the price. I didn't like the story at all. This is basically an extended pro open borders political advertisement and that's about all it is. I have no idea why that is a thing that werewolves would care about. If you are pro open borders, believe that anyone with a different opinion is "just like Hitler," and are desperately seeking to have others reaffirm your beliefs back to you, you …
- [1]
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory is a noticeable improvement over Heart of the Forest in every way imaginable. It’s got a more fleshed-out main character in the form of Samira, there are more RPG mechanics and the developers have doubled down on the choice-driven narrative. Just know that this isn’t a Werewolf power fantasy like Earthblood and isn’t made for players wary of political commentary in video games. …
- [18]
I'm only half way through the game but I wanted to write a review all the same. I'm not normally one drawn to the werewolf side of the World of Darkness and am more of a VTM stan but man this game is AMAZING. I love the story from the POV of an Afgani refugee, using a lot of political situations currently relevant in today's world and teaching me a lot about their culture and religion. There is lots of LGBTQ rep …
- [4]
I will be honest I will give a positive review of the game because I enjoy this type of games and want them to thrive. Now for the negative part the writer tend to be anchored in political agenda they may want to pass a message and it's interesting but choosing Werewolf: The apocalypse IP for talking about refugee and there trouble doesn't work. You can mention but directing the whole story around it just doesn't …
- [2]
I played the first game, and enjoyed that, so I was prepared for more of the same (and wouldn't have complained). But this game is a definite push forward in the sense that the story is longer, and there is actual combat. I'm in love with the way the devs are handling the IP and will for sure be looking for more titles. Well Done.
Summarised from 34 of the 172 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
80% of the 87 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory. The complaint that keeps coming up: story is too short, around three to four hours. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 255 · most liked firstWhat's a Werewolf Wednesday without a wild night? Here's some evidence from this morning! Garn might've been game for another round of Reed's wreckin'... =u= Reed (right) - @growlshift.ing Garn (left) - @nimratu.bsky.social Image by: @cobe.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Dr. Werewolf will see you now >:] 🐺🌙 Our team just submitted for the GMTK Game Jam!!! Come check it out, there's a ton of fun werewolf'y transformation! (And also medical malpractice) #GMTK2026 boidbwain.itch.io/dr-werewolf
neutral · AI labelView post →Jinro-kun, a sleepy werewolf, is an unofficial mascot for the the party game Werewolf.
neutral · AI labelView post →Werewolf Gamer 🐺🎮 // Recently I feel like I want to draw human XD // Now I'm addicted to "Shangri-la Frontier" so I want to design in-game character (MMORPG) for them too
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite social deduction game is being a friendly buff black dude in the gym. If you like Mafia or Werewolf, you’ll love Secret Homie Who Calls Me The N-Word in his head.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dr. Werewolf will see you now… 🌙 My team and I just finished the GMTK Game Jam!! Come play and rate our game >:) I promise there’s beautiful art, wolfish transformation, medical malpractice, and lots of squishy innards! #GMTK2026 boidbwain.itch.io/dr-werewolf
neutral · AI labelView post →Been working on some figures from The Silver Bayonet game Trading Company Unit. This is the Werewolf Painted for my Outlaws & Lawdogs game. #PaintingMiniatures #miniatures #minipainting
neutral · AI labelView post →Daddy Wolfy & His 14 Werewolf Boyfriends 🍍💦 Game: Resident Evil Village 2pm-5pmESt www.twitch.tv/wolfywolfang
neutral · AI labelView post →Digging this trailer for the (canceled) Werewolf: The Apocalypse game from @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social's recent release of E3 1996 footage
neutral · AI labelView post →NO SHOT DEADLOCK ADDED A WEREWOLF CHARACTER GUESS ITS TIME FOR ME TO FINALLY LOCK INTO THIS GAME
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone want to get a big group together and play Conclave? It's like Mafia or Werewolf, except in this social deduction game we're battling to elect the next pope.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Japan, there is an exclusive version of One Night Werewolf themed around Kirby! Who else owns this variant of the card game? 🐺
neutral · AI labelView post →When you're trying to be cute, but you're actually just cosplaying your player character from your husband's Werewolf the Apocalypse game...
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW WEREWOLF GAME!!!! GO PLAY IT BARK RUFF GRRR GO, DO IT, N O W !!! Support our favorite furry artists!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyones favorite fat yellow lizard from that one video game gets a throat swabbing from a very good boy. Alphys: @twilightv0ids.bsky.social Werewolf: @rekin3d.bsky.social #Werewolf #Alphys #Undertale #furry #furrynsfw #furryart
neutral · AI labelView post →If they get to be Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Acula why can't he be Dr. Werewolf? Participated in my first ever game jam with some extremely talented friends, a score chasing physics based werewolf surgery game that YOU can now play! #GMTK2026 boidbwain.itch.io/dr-werewolf
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry, too busy Sucking the Ass Sweat from my Werewolf Boyfriend to care about the game awards
neutral · AI labelView post →A drawing I did way back of my werewolf named , Skjall! For a tabletop game called Werewolf the Apocalypse 🥰💪
neutral · AI labelView post →Forgot to post it here! Here is the box cover illustration of my Werewolf x Ace Attorney card game project~
neutral · AI labelView post →In case @k000.bsky.social needs any help in the next Werewolf game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Shall we play a game of "Werewolf"? #gnosia
neutral · AI labelView post →"CHOOSE YOUR WEREWOLF!!!" - Some werewolf beat 'em up game announcer voice ✨🐺🐺✨ 🎨: @sindenbock.bsky.social Tripp and Muffle ©️ @tripphazard.bsky.social #pixelart #furry #furryart #sfw
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a very brief game for the price. I didn't like the story at all. This is basically an extended pro open borders political advertisement and that's about all it is. I have no idea why that is a thing that werewolves would care about. If you are pro open borders, believe that anyone with a different opinion is "just like Hitler," and are desperately seeking to have others reaffirm your beliefs back to you, you will like this, otherwise you will not. I would recommend Book of Hungry…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WEREWOLF OBJECT VORE IN THE SIMS?? GOD what an erotic game
neutral · AI labelView post →I isekai'd Almiras into our current Pathfinder game since someone had to be the honorary furry trash/Gay Werewolf.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is not terrible but its not great either. I enjoyed Heart Of The Forest a lot more because the politics was the backdrop and the Garou were the focus while in this game it is the other way around. I also feel like the characters did not get as much development as they did in HOTF and were quite one dimensional and your Auspice, Tribe, etc didn't open any new paths outside of dialogue unlike HOTF where you got a unique mission based on your Auspice. They also ruined Olga and The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →in my opinion this is the 7th best of the 9 visual novels or choose your own adventure books in current world of darkness. if you want a good werewolf story go for The Book of Hungry names first then go for heart of the forest and this after. it was pretty sort, at three hours to complete and wasnt particularly interesting or deep. i would like to tell the writer, that yes i do read the news and you could play off it in a less straightforward manner. i feel more could have been done with the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is obviously correct: there were too many comedians on the programme this time, which meant too many people who knew each other and made it more like “an actual game of Werewolf or Blood on the Clocktower” and less of a game of nerves.
negative · AI labelView post →This meme has been used a lot in my current Werewolf: The Apocalypse game lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →It's finally Werewolf Wednesday, and all the game pieces are finally on the board in this week's #Silver&Iron update!! Also, rice krispie dream Maddoc, canon at last 🙏
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes you're bein heckled by your twin, Mean-Beanin', stress stackin, & your 1 set of beans away from death... Then the gods bless you with a 7 BANGER! 🙌🏼🐺 Missed playin games with him. I wasn't allowed to leave until I beat the whole game.💪🏼🐺🙂↕️ #werewolf #meanbeanmachine #arcade #BeastmanMike
neutral · AI labelView post →Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory is a noticeable improvement over Heart of the Forest in every way imaginable. It’s got a more fleshed-out main character in the form of Samira, there are more RPG mechanics and the developers have doubled down on the choice-driven narrative. Just know that this isn’t a Werewolf power fantasy like Earthblood and isn’t made for players wary of political commentary in video games. If you’re someone who liked Heart of the Forest, then Purgatory is right up your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Symphony of the Night is lowkey the perfect halloween game bc it has all the classic horror movie monsters >Dracula (obviously) >Frankenstein’s monster >the Werewolf >and the Mummy literally just a greatest hits collection of black and white horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Social deduction games are so easy. Every time I play one I simply nominate the Werewolf for elimination and we instantly win the game in the first round.
neutral · AI labelView post →WEREWOLF LUCIEN IN-GAME #FURRYFORTNITE
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, it's Werewolf the Apocalypse, one of World of Darkness best titles. But of course this is 5th Edition so it is as Woke as you can expect. There are certain paths that are locked because they assume, or they want you to think THEIR WAY. The whole thing is completely skewed and politically biased even politically missionned and arrogant. There is simply no player agency, this is not a roleplaying game. This is clumsy obvious woke propaganda. This is not a game about werewolves, it is a game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I WAS CRINOS, THE WAR FORM *battle music starts* Simple line would cause goosebumps on my skin every time. While narrative, music and visual are absolutly superb, everything has been ruined by huge amount of LGBT+ propaganda. Leader of the sept is transwoman, her subordinate (your companion) is a gay man, dating in the past a gay antagonist. LMAO what? For God's sake, it is supposed to be story about Gaia and werewolves! Not Gaya! /facepalm /upd okay first gay man came out as bisexual. Later…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Werewolf: the Apocalypse - The Book of Hungry Names mid-game review This game feels like I'm playing dyke werewolf Harry Dubois.
positive · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched In the middle of our month of daily horror binging: - Unscary found footage - Werewolf game just makes me think of Gnosia now - Time loop horror I might enjoy more on a second viewing - I miss Hi-C Ecto Cooler
neutral · AI labelView post →The story just beats you over the head with the theme in every single scene, and it’s really hard to connect to any of the characters, they just exist to move the plot forward. What’s supposed to be a traumatic loss and the grieving of a family member ends up feeling like empty filler garbage, as the writers drag you through it multiple times to “confront” your past. Why do I have to sit through so many flashbacks when the point of every single one is the same? These people had hard lives and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have mixed feelings about this game. The visuals and soundtrack are great, no question. My problem lies more with the story and let's be honest, a visual novel lives from its story. In my opinion, this game does not reflect the Garou of the WoD. Of course, it addresses current critical issues in our world politics and that is how it should be in a WoD story. But the Garou mainly fight for the preservation of nature or against its destruction. This aspect was not addressed in the game in any…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was great fun! We did not catch the killer. The damn lawyer got away with it. Apparently this type of social deduction game is fun for my brain. The fast paced ones like One Night Werewolf remain ForSomeoneElse™
neutral · AI labelView post →In my eyes, Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory is no better than Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest, being a serviceable sequel. On the other hand, I can see people not enjoying this one as much. This game is all about plot progression; you don't connect with any of the new characters. Even the old ones from the previous game, you don't get an introduction to them, so anyone playing this game first will not know who they are, and if you so happened to have played the previous…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a reason I call Werewolf, "The People Killing the Earth Have Names and Addresses: The Game."
positive · AI labelView post →I'm playing in a Werewolf: the Apocalypse game in a few weeks, as a Fianna. Not a 'Hart Warden'. A Fianna. Because, and I can't stress this enough - the way it attempted to reflect real-world cultures was one of the BEST AND GREATEST THINGS ABOUT WEREWOLF THE APOCALYPSE.
positive · AI labelView post →I remember when I was a very young child I completely dreamt up a mario game that didn't exist, believing I saw a trailer of it somewhere on some vhs , called Werewolf Mario, which was in the style of 64 but Mario was a werewolf and did combat like Sonic Unleashed.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am a bit conflicted. I think main gripe with the game is that it's probably not my type of visual novel in terms of how the text is structured and presented. I prefer the way it's done in Heart of the Forest or the Vampire games (including Reckoning of New York): each paragraph or dialog requires explicit press of a button and auto-continue or whatever it's called is an option. Here it's completely automatic and requires your action only when you need to make a choice and when there is a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →they took all the great things about earthblood and improved it just a brilliant story and honestly a great roleplay game im having a ton of fun with it and im only 50 percent the way through
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Notes:Im born polish and trying to keep open mind here, played "Alexanders path" twice. If you ever played any taletale games you can skip this review knowing there are beautifoul handpainted artpices and no QTE. Others read on(sighs)..The premise itself is noble and important, everyone deserves a home/normal life i agree with that completely, but by god, the execution can be done better then mustache pating cartoon villans. Nothing is shown openly but implied and coutredicted. For example…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cringe woke bs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another approximately three and a half hour romp of a play-through, and a satisfying experience. I was worried with the transition to the mechanics (and lore) of fifth edition it was going to kill the game for me. I can happily report that as a relative outsider to WTA but not WOD in general, it did not diminish the experience at all. Playing Heart of the Forest before this game is not required. You can jump straight in with this game. There was a lot more room to be a werewolf (Crinos), and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoy Heart of the Forest,then don't hesitate to buy this one.Sure, the storytelling may not be considered as good as Book of Hungry Names,but what makes it enjoyable is its unique art style.As a non-native English speaker ,I struggle with reading in English,but these beautiful illustrations really helped me focus on reading and I appreciate it . Story contains two different routes to explore ,providing at least 12 hours of gameplay to fully experience. To be honest, sound design is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have seen me prattle about my home game and/or share art from it, this is that system! Testimonial fun! A lovingly crafted revamp for all your Werewolf the Apocalypse needs, perfect for any edition! #wod #wta #wte #indie #ttrpg
positive · AI labelView post →I've been gleefully referencing him through the "evil shitty beer company" arc of my Werewolf: the Apocalypse game.
neutral · AI labelView post →The thumbnail is Werewolf: The Last Warrior on NES. Here's the end screen, to give you an idea about the kind of game it is
neutral · AI labelView post →Steven Shmuely is the Art Director on Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn, with 20 years of hands-on game art and an Emmy behind him. We talked leading an art team, protecting the vision, and the dark World of Darkness tone 👇 www.strandedcat.com/interviews/s... #gamedev #games #unity #indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Hugh jokes, but I no longer play Werewolf/Mafia on a forum that's quite friendly because the last time I played I got a bit, erm, Intense about it. It's an odd game.
neutral · AI labelView post →You already know I play on St Pete by Night, a Werewolf the Apocalypse 5E game, but did you know I also run my own game using Werewolf the Essentials?! I'll share tidbits (that won't spoil my players too badly :P) about my Chronicle as the month progresses! #WoD #WtA #WtE #promotional
positive · AI labelView post →Big fan of Revised Edition WtA, I also read 5th Edition. If you take 5th edition and skim it down even more - you get this game, I am not talking about the mechanics, its about the lore that does not make sense. Most of it feels like weak fanfiction and the writer clearly did not understand Werewolf the Apocalypse. Would you treat another of yours, in the time of the Apocalypse, as a Pariah? You are outnumbered against the Wyrm 10:1 - and then one day a Garou - one possible ally shows up at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm only half way through the game but I wanted to write a review all the same. I'm not normally one drawn to the werewolf side of the World of Darkness and am more of a VTM stan but man this game is AMAZING. I love the story from the POV of an Afgani refugee, using a lot of political situations currently relevant in today's world and teaching me a lot about their culture and religion. There is lots of LGBTQ rep which surprised me but also made me incredibly happy, especially because they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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