Werewolves: Haven Rising

Inspiring story about struggle and resistance against military oppresion.

This was... Incredible. Simply INCREDIBLE. I have played through twice so far, just barely changing my choices, and ended up with two completely different runs by the end. This has absorbed my attention more than any book in ages and being a part of the story's construction makes it all the more engaging. I readily await the next installment. The writing is superb, the action relentless, you become invested in so many characters and feel for their plights, and the romances presented offer a wonderful comfort amongst the chaos... Perfection.

I love it It has some flaws But I love it

I was hoping for something like Heart of the Forest, but it's not that. If I wanted to read a book, I'd read a book. Wasn't captivated by the story either. Has turned me off games of this genre for now.

While not perfect, I found the story compelling and while there are some obvious areas of railroading, allowing the replaying of chapters from checkpoints was a great feature that more visual novels using this engine could learn from! It is quite short, but it's sweet and generally speaking the choices you make do feel like they matter. With earlier choices coming up later, often in some very fun ways - and they feel like they're effecting the events outcome. For the price, it's easily worth it.

This game was the first of this genre of game I ever played. At first I was put off by the lack of visuals and it felt like a novel that was altered slightly via my choices and looking at a normal screen full of words was overwhelming and hurt my eyes sometimes. That aside, it's a solid story with a few likable characters (if a bit basic) and lots of ways to customize your character and how they overcome the given challenges. There are even a few different endings and different romances to go for to make each playthrough unique which allows for more replay-ability to get every ending/achievement, ect. I have a soft spot for werewolves in general and I enjoyed immersing myself as a beast of the moon and dealing with the morality of slaughtering (or not) your oppressors. ALSO DENA BEST BOY. Very fun. 7/10

Epic game very choice

Good

I really wish the author of this game would do a WoD Werewolf: The Apocalypse game and show them how it's done, because I tried that OTHER werewolf CYOA game (I know this game is it's own original universe) and I literally couldn't finish it. THIS game however, the writing is so much crisper, the right amount of descriptive, and it doesn't feel like it's preaching at you. It's SUBTLE in many ways, comparatively. I also love that it takes place in a semi-post apocalypse setting, and I feel like it handles the mature themes of genocide/ethnic cleansing, fascist bigotry and ideology and where it leads in a tactful and measured way. It doesn't *tell you* how you should feel, it just presents the story with plenty of emotive and memorable characters, including my terrorist were-wife Bly. Def recommend and hope the author is still making more of these !

I would say that this game is not entirely bad but plot sometimes goes beyond what I am able to understand. [spoiler] I mean there were some situation where MC teacher/girlfriend was fighting some soldiers. They were together and for some reasons she got captured and MC not. He was kinda like skipped and we just returned to some safe area. There also wasn't much our MC wanted to do about her getting captured and instead got elected to being pack leader and carry on with his life. I also felt that lot of fights were kinda skipped and sometimes I felt that there are not many warewolf fighters but somehow later we are even have few groups of them(?) and we can "rally" them to fight. I felt somewhat confused if there are those fighters or we are outnumbered outgunned and we will got anihilated without much opposition. The main plot which suggest that "big bad enemy" is actually our father who also cannot understand that he sometimes is warewolf and sometimes human seem quite questionable for me. Like he can have some schizophrenia but he actually have soldiers under him. They should spotted that their leader is leaving for days and behave like hobo. Besides those soldiers are also dumb and linear. In some final fights I was quite confused when warewolf were in lost position but soldiers were kinda just geting killed all the time as if they didn't have guns and instead they just charge on big bad wolfs with some spear or sword. In the end of my first playthrough I got killed and could still save game... I was curious if that happends how it will proceed with part 2, It was quite funny that after reloading my save I actually won that fight and our enemy was killed instead. I quess I just suck at my choices... [/spoiler] Anyway at this point I am not sure if I really want to buy part 2 or even try to get into second playthrough. If I would have recommend text game about warewolf tho it would be: Blood Moon instead especially for how communication with pack was described there.