A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.
SOME CONTEXT
When starting to go through the May Wolf entries, this was one of the first entries I kept asking to play with my group. The combination of that thumbnail, title and short description kept drawing me in like a moth to the flame. I had a feeling this game was something magical, and in the end I was proven right. Sadly, I kept getting outvoted for quite a long while, and MOwolf ended up among the latter half of entries we played. We also voiced every entry, so saying some of these lines was an absolute blast. The person who ended up voicing the narration was fighting for his life though.
WHAT I LIKED
The writing is a mess, which adds to the experience. It has this almost stream of consciousness style, that is like a first rough draft, but messier. The entire thing is written with the casual energy you'd use in a forum post, online chat or god forbid... a shitpost. A very elaborate shitpost whose entire existence is to set up the legendary line about mowterboating those wolf tiddies. This author is a wordsmith. Every single line is an assault, and every single typo or error is perfectly peppered in at the right place.
The plot is simple and straightforward. Chukking, trucking and fucking to own the HOA was dumb fun. It is just a silly excuse plot to get these two disasters to smash, and I'm here for it. The little "reveal" (that gets revealed twice, btw, because this game's narrative is just that consistent) that Harry was the one reporting Guy to the HOA just tickled me for me for some reason. I think this game just broke me.
The leveling system just casually introduced with no explanation or fanfare. And I kinda love that. When the line "But I only have a lvl.1 ass!" dropped, it was a sudden slap to the face. I was laughing so hard and the person voicing Guy started choking from laughter. MOwolf almost killed a man (complimentary).
The... romance...? I kinda love that this game just refers to sexual things as grinding and powerleveling sessions, we as a society should take a note from MOwolf.
The undies... I have no words- I mean one always hopes for hot muscular wolves in their underwear!
WHAT I DISLIKED
The lack of a title screen and music – having some unique as the first thing you see/hear when you open the game is always a nice bonus to set expectations and get the reader into the mood for whatever is coming next. It's a shame there was no music, I'm really curious what choices the author would make here.
The writing is a mess, completely unacceptable if you try to take this game seriously. The very first line has a very messy structure, and it's only downhill from there on. There are so many typos, jumbled sentence structures, weird punctuation. Dialogue tags are wrong or missing, narration suddenly melds with the dialogue, there's just plain bizarre decisions when it comes to the way most lines were written. Some lines repeat multiple times, and there's just so many errors of every single kind one can think of.
Thankfully, none of that matters, cause it somehow managed to achieve some kind of integer overflow, where the amount of messy turned into a magical experience.
The plot is simple and very... empty in a way? For something with such, uh, insane stylistic flare, the events that actually happen don't really live up to it.
The leveling system just casually introduced with no explanation or fanfare. This does feel like a bizarre joke that's got no punchline and doesn't actually contribute anything to the narrative.
CONCLUSION
MOwolf made me happy. It made me and the group I read with laugh so much, it was a wonderful time. Not everyone was a fan, but I am very glad that it exists, especially in the form it does. Once you get into the right mindset, every line becomes a free serotonin dispenser.
I got ass leveled by this game so hard, but I don't know by how much. Level grinding is one hell of a bitch.
