The Wolf

This Inform 7 game is a really fun take on the fairytale theme where you play as the big bad wolf, being interviewed by the police and coming up with an alibi for all his alleged crimes!

I really liked the design of the tutorial - there’s an in-story introduction and a special tutorial character who is later brought back to provide hints if you need them. The tutorial itself is thorough and provides a good explanation of every common command - there’s also a handy ‘commands’ meta-command that lists every verb you need to get through the puzzles, which is a nice short list due to the game’s limited-parser design.

The puzzles are straightforward, generally well clued and nicely pitched towards beginners. I only needed to use the in-game hints twice; they helped in the first instance, but there seemed to be a slight bug with them in the second instance and so I had to resort to asking on the Discord. In both cases, I was stuck because I hadn’t re-tried a command after a circumstance had changed - I felt this could have been marginally better clued, but perhaps it was just me not being thorough enough.

Great game overall – I love the fun premise!