The Wolf of Derevnya

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I really enjoyed this. It's atmospheric and engrossing, with tons of room for role-playing.

I also love that you included Onfim's drawings. Onfim rules.

Awesome work. The writing, sound effects, the black and white theme, everything is polished. You can also pet the cat 😍😻. Can't wait to see what happens next.

This absolutely brought me back all the best kinds of nostalgia from my childhood when this sort of thing only existed in the form of choose-your-own-adventure books (at least as far as I knew when I was a kid with no laptop, haha.) Only this is even better because the sheer number of choices is a delight :3 As are the drawings that accompany the pages and the atmospheric music too.

I really enjoyed how many different things I could do. From the bigger choices to the smaller ones. And I especially loved being able to describe myself not just by picking a gender for reference, but also things about the character's past and how the people around them perceive them because of that.

I've only played the one time so far, and while I made sure to do a lot of digging around and interacting, I certainly haven't exhausted all the choices that are available. I generally chose to be as polite as possible. I don't want to spoil too much, but I started out making the sorts of choices I would make myself, such as attempting not to bother people with my problems. I was a little concerned that may wind up with my demise, haha. So I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered I was able to make those decisions and continue playing rather than being punished for being timid.

I definitely found myself wanting more once I reached the end, so I hope that development goes smoothly! :3 I'll be back for more in the future. I have a feeling that I may be wishing for the option of cheating like I used to with those books by putting my thumb on the choice page in case I make a decision that leads to my death because everything built up to be rather foreboding :D

Oh, gosh!! This was such a delight! And by delight, I mean I was basically half on the edge of my chair the whole time so sure I was going to make some kind of horrible wrong decision, but I digress LOL

I had a ton of fun playing this! Perhaps because I have more experience in the visual novel side of things than the IF side of things, I was fascinated at just HOW many different choices there were at all times and how many different things you could do—this was quite new for me! So I really enjoyed getting to hunt and peck around and see all the different things I could do and the people I could interact with. There was a very real sense of... I don't know... impeding doom??? About the whole thing. Like, even from the very beginning in the forest worrying that every decision I made was going to end up in my untimely death, to then when I was exploring the village and having strange interactions with people and the time kept getting later and later and the sun starting to set. It was wonderfully immersive and almost surreal, and it kept me on edge the whole time I was playing.

I'm the type of person who when I play a game is absolutely incapable of being mean or rude to people, so I felt like I was making mostly neutral or positive attempts at talking and interacting with the various people (though now I'm also curious how it would have turned out had I not been so kind LOL). I really enjoyed the night at the inn with Mila. It felt incredibly homey to me—a little respite in the midst of all the strange unnerving-ness happening outside. I also loved having the chance to make choices in such a way as to describe my own past and self—for instance, how people perceive me and who I was traveling with, etc.

The drawings throughout were so well done and absolutely lovely. Coupled with the haunting music always there in the background, they really helped pull you even more into the story and adding to the eerie tone of the experience. And absolutely beautiful and descriptive writing! Everything just fit together so well to create a haunting experience that grew more and more nerve-rattling as it went on. I'm really intrigued at what will happen next after that ending GOD!!! akdjfalsdkf

Really well done and I'll be looking forward to more!! 💕