Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory

If you enjoyed Heart of the Forest, you will also like this one! If you’re new to the series, I recommend playing HotF first as it eases you into the lore a bit more gradually. There’s something special about Different Tales’ visual novels. Like this studio’s other work, Purgatory has an engaging story that grabbed me immediately, beautiful watercolor artwork and music, and the RPG mechanics are fun. But what really...

1 found this helpful, 2026-07-04

I have spent around 35 hours in this game and I’m still near the beginning. 😅 Not because the game is slow — but because I keep stopping to think. The writing is surprisingly rich: the philosophy of the Triat, refugee trauma, grief, politics, spirituality, moral ambiguity, symbolism, character psychology… even small dialogue choices can make you sit there analyzing them for minutes. This is less “play fast...

3 found this helpful, 2026-05-22

A great game that expands the law and there are more options to shift and examine the story from two different angles. Would of liked some of the decisions from Heart of the Forest to cross over but still worth the repeated gameplay.

1 found this helpful, 2026-04-05

This game is not terrible but its not great either. I enjoyed Heart Of The Forest a lot more because the politics was the backdrop and the Garou were the focus while in this game it is the other way around. I also feel like the characters did not get as much development as they did in HOTF and were quite one dimensional and your Auspice, Tribe, etc didn't open any new paths outside of dialogue unlike HOTF where you...

56 found this helpful, 2024-08-11

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory is a noticeable improvement over Heart of the Forest in every way imaginable. It’s got a more fleshed-out main character in the form of Samira, there are more RPG mechanics and the developers have doubled down on the choice-driven narrative. Just know that this isn’t a Werewolf power fantasy like Earthblood and isn’t made for players wary of political commentary in video games. If...

39 found this helpful, 2024-07-23

in my opinion this is the 7th best of the 9 visual novels or choose your own adventure books in current world of darkness. if you want a good werewolf story go for The Book of Hungry names first then go for heart of the forest and this after. it was pretty sort, at three hours to complete and wasnt particularly interesting or deep. i would like to tell the writer, that yes i do read the news and you could play off it...

53 found this helpful, 2024-07-24