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Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf HD Remastered
Lone Wolf is back, as a video game with a brand-new story, a deep combat system, stunning graphics and much more! Make meaningful choices and carve your own path through this epic non-linear adventure. Test your strength in dynamic turn-based battles, prove your skill with the lock-picking minigame and accept the challenge of wits posed by the mysterious Shianti Cube!
The author Joe Dever has played an active role in the development of the game. The story he has written fits with the original continuity, but it also sheds a new light on Lone Wolf’s world, Magnamund!
For Sommerlund and the Kai!
Steam User 1
Another reading game. I do not like reading games. But this one?
This one does worth your time. I have played several other games where the emphasis was on reading but there was no joy in it even though people say that their story was great. Why? Presentation... small text in a small box in a tiny corner of the screen. Very uncomfortable.
But here? Text has excellent art/design, they have put it so that it covers half of the screen (on the other half you can manage your character/etc.). When you get to an action sequence, all the text is gone and you can enjoy the action as it is. Perfect balance 10/10.
What else? The story and the universe is charming, immersive. Soundtrack is just awesome (and not only the tracks, but when they are used). Did I mention the art and overall feeling? It is fantastic. You can replay the game with different builds and different choices!
Of course the game isn't perfect:
- combat sometimes is too easy or it may seem straight unfair, they know this and fortunately they added several options to counter this (like switching the difficulty level of the current combat at will).
If you are not afraid of reading, I recommend it.
Steam User 1
Now that was a very fun and interesting ride. Never played anything like this before. At first I struggled with the game mechanics during the fighting, but very soon I figured how to handle it and it became very easy with the time. The mouse movements you have to do become very easy once you really understood how it works. I skilled my intelligence and got tons of time to do fighting actions in each round and had about 3 realoads after lost fights during the whole game, played on normal difficulty. It was a lot of fighting, maybe a bit too much sometimes, but I wanted to know the further story and couldn't stop playing. You are reading a LOT in this game, I'd say about 50% of it is reading. Not as well written as Pillars of Eternity or Shadowrun-games, but it was ok and motivating. Sound and voice acting have been excellent, the graphics style too. Very recommended game, we do need more of such games. If you struggle with the mechanics, take your time and read about them again until you got it. It's really worth it.
Steam User 1
A Game of Choices, basically it's like reading a book and from time to time you decide what the hero does or where it goes.
It's a one of a kind game that i had a lot of fun "playing"/reading thought it.
On top of it you get loot, so the RPG mechanics are a nice addition to the game.
TLDR:
Interactive fiction + QTE fights + RPG mechanics + Your Choices Matter
Steam User 1
Although the game definitely needs another editing pass over of the text and clearer indications of how your choices will affect the overall story progression, it is a pretty damn well made game.
The story is engaging and feels like it is right at home in the Lone Wolf saga and the artwork is beautiful.
The combat system is challenging and has several paths of options due to your power and equipment choices and will almost never feel like you are able to just breeze through any combat.
This means weighing up your choices carefully to tip combat situations in your favour are incredibly important to progress.
One thing I found was I did have to do a little bit of grinding which took me out of the story book like feeling for a little bit every now and then and some major combats were very frustrating for me to triumph over.
Whether this was a consequence of my power and story choices or not is difficult to judge as I played through two different ways on both normal and hard difficulty and it never felt like I could catch much of a break.
Do not take this as a criticism of the game, it does a fantastic job of always making you feel like the underdog (pun perhaps intended) and you will have to use all of your strength, guile and wits to have a chance of completing it without resorting to switching the difficulty to easy mode.
In conclusion, a worthy addition to the overall Lone Wolf series and well worth a run or two through, I think Joe Dever would be proud of his worlds vision living on.