The Wolf Among Us Remastered Doesn’t Change Much, And That’s A Good Thing

The Wolf Among Us 2 is finally landing in 2027, and if you want to catch up on what many consider one of Telltale Games' best exports, you can grab The Wolf Among Us Remastered on October 29. It's the original game spruced up for new hardware and enhanced with several extras, but is it a necessary purchase? Yes and no, depending on what you expect from this package.

GameSpot senior video producer Jean-Luc Seipke went hands-on with the remaster, and in the video below, you can hear their thoughts on this Telltale classic. So how much of a difference does 13 years make? With The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Telltale has focused on subtle improvements across the board. The goal was to retain the original game's look and feel while improving lighting, adding new animations where needed, making the protagonist Bigby's werewolf transformation more intimidating, and making other nuanced tweaks under the hood.

Compared to the original, the difference isn't night and day, but the extra work adds a new visual layer to a game that already had a timeless look thanks to its strong art direction. If you're unfamiliar with the source material, The Wolf Among Us adapts Fables, an award-winning comic book series that ran for 13 years and chronicled the exploits of a secret society of exiled fairy tale characters in New York. A big hit for DC's Vertigo imprint, the series ran from 2002-2015 and made a short-lived comeback in 2022.

Beyond the graphical update, The Wolf Among Us Remastered also packs plenty of extra content. Noir Mode dresses the game in a monochrome filter, adds several deleted and extended scenes, and lets you go behind the scenes with developer commentary, concept art, interviews, and other archival materials. If that content doesn't matter to you, then the remaster might not be a necessary upgrade.

That said, Telltale is launching the game at an attractive $25 price, with a launch-week discount and even deeper savings if you already own the game. So for a few bucks more, the remastered edition is the more tempting offer, and Telltale says that it won't remove the original game from storefronts either. Progress in The Wolf Among Us Remastered will also affect how the story plays out in The Wolf Among Us 2, but as of now, we haven't heard back from Telltale on whether choices made in the original game will carry over.

Whichever version you choose, you're going to have a good time. The Wolf Among Us is an all-time classic from the Telltale library, and the remaster looks like a fun way to relive that story--or experience it for the first time--before the big bad wolf huffs and puffs down the door for his return next year.