Come Home, Wolf
"You are older. But you have gotten so much smaller."
Consider this a familiar future... Welcome to Amseng, child of the moon. Your work contract in the stars has finished and it's time for you to return to planetside living. An old friend is waiting to welcome you to your new home at their wolf kin township. But six years on lycanthropy suppression drug Lygone has left you completely alienated from other werewolves like yourself and their way of life. It's going to take a lot of work to figure out what your future is supposed to be. What kind of wolf will you become?
Developed as part of Werewolf Jam 2023!
Evie - Programming, Game Design (https://evie.zone/)
Sarah Zedig - Writing, Narrative Design (https://comradery.co/sarahzedig)
Névé - Character Design and Pop-Up Artwork, Cutscene Illustration, In-Game Icons (https://the.beesneevs.com/) (https://twitter.com/neevspoilsbees)
Fen - Concept Art, Sprites (https://noonmarkart.carrd.co/)
Ianaro - Voice Acting & Sound Design (https://ianarovoices.carrd.co/)
How to play: Use the WASD keys to move your character, scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Click on icons above characters to talk to them.
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digging it! from the lore n world building to the actual characters and narrative!
some observations from playing on my phone: some transitions will load in text, and immediatly start to fade into the NEXT transition, last noticed ending a day and the text in the house between town screen and dream sequence?
not sure if a menu can be accessed in game, for saving or whatnot, and just no way to without pressing a specific key? my touchscreen is lacking in those a bit.
hey Reddyy! Thanks for playing! It’s far from finished and also not meant to be played on mobile. I’ll be uploading a new build in the next week or so with more content and polish so hopefully you enjoy that!
Wishing there was a download version but seems like a great start so far.
Thanks VexLight! I'm still working on it. It's very special to me and I can't wait for it to be finished.
I'm surprised no one has commented on this yet! I really like the writing and the vibe. As someone that struggles with anhedonia, it's also incredibly relatable. That feeling that some part of you has been missing for so long that you don't even know who you are, or if that person you used to be still even exists... It's not something that gets talked about.
I'm really glad you liked it! I wasn't the writer on the project but I know as a team we all discussed ways we're neurodivergent and how lycanthropy can be used to explore that. I can definitely say a lot of it resonates with me as someone who suffers from ptsd, dissociation and is plural.
I can definitely relate to dissociation, too, and plurality to a lesser extent.
Really, I don't think enough people realize how many mental health struggles aren't something you "have," but what you don't.
Hell, I'm pretty sure there's been studies finding that depressed people actually have expectations more closely matching reality than non-depressed people. It doesn't make them pessimistic, it makes them lack optimism.
And yet somehow no one really talks about the void that can leave in a person.