Warsaw, October 15th, 2020–Walkabout Games and Different Tales, the creators of the newly released game Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest, have shared their reading and watching recommendations that will help you get into the right mindset for the savage horror adventure.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest is the upcoming savage horror game that adapts the mechanics of the legendary RPG system. In this story-focused experience, you play Maia, a young girl who comes to Poland looking for her roots and gets drafted into an ancient war.
Heart of the Forest was released on October 13th, 2020 for PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam, GOG.com, and GeForce Now. The game has met with an enthusiastic response from both gamers and critics, becoming a Trending and Featured title on Steam, with a “Very Positive” average user score. ScreenRant awarded the game with a score of 8/10, pointing out that “The quality of the writing is fantastic” and that’s “an engaging game that has a much-needed new perspective on the World of Darkness.”
In the new weekly Dev Diary, lead designer Artur Ganszyniec, recommends books worth reading in order to prepare yourself for the Werewolf experience.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest is available on PC, Mac, and Linux through Steam, GOG.com, and GeForce Now, at $14.99 / €12.49 / £11.39. A special 10% discount is available until 20th October 2020.
About Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a legendary role-playing game first released in 1992 by White Wolf. The player is a Garou, commonly referred to as a werewolf. Their kind is locked in a two-front war against the spiritual desolation of urban civilization and supernatural forces of corruption seeking to bring about the Apocalypse.
About Different Tales
Different Tales is a storytelling studio co-founded by The Witcher head story designer Artur Ganszyniec and project lead Jacek Brzeziński (The Witcher, Hitman, Dying Light).
Over the last dozen years, Different Tales members have worked on fantasy franchises with a cult following, mobile games for the mass market, artistic experiments, critically acclaimed products about killing people and prototypes that were meant to exceed the boundaries of the medium. They are always ready to tell a new story.
- Website: differenttales.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/differenttales/
- Twitter: twitter.com/differenttales
About Walkabout Games
The publisher behind Liberated and Wanderlust: Travel Stories, Walkabout Games is a Polish publisher and developer of aspiring independent game studios.
It supports ambitious projects full of new, exciting, and risky ideas that evoke the kind of amazement that we all love video games for.
- Website: walkabout.games
- Facebook: facebook.com/WalkaboutGames/
- Twitter: twitter.com/Walkabout_Games
About World of Darkness
World of Darkness is a transmedia entertainment brand encompassing a number of modern fantasy horror franchises, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and more. Through tabletop roleplaying games, video games, board games, literature, comic books, and more, these franchises tell mature stories in a dark supernatural fantasy layered over our modern world. Since 1991, World of Darkness has defined monster-perspective entertainment for a generation of fans. For more information visit www.worldofdarkness.com.
