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When Wolf Fades

A noir crime management strategy where you play as the Wolf in Granny’s clothing. Hold your criminal empire together, unravel the city’s mystery, balance resources, recruit a gang through character cards, and survive 30 days without being exposed — or killed.

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Hoolignomes
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Watt Studio
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About the Game

This is the story of The Big Bad Wolf. A wolf in Grandma’s clothing, now posing as one of the city’s most feared crime bosses. With his cover at constant risk of being blown, he must take control of a shadow empire that every rival wants a bite of. The stress will eat him alive: running an illegal business is Hell. Decide which gang members to send on jobs, collect protection money, settle scores with competitors, and pull off lucrative schemes. This is no place for tender little sheep.

  • Run criminal operations by assigning the right members of your gangs

  • React to illegal opportunities and make hard decisions

  • Walk a razor’s edge: get exposed by your own people or busted by the cops

  • Crush your rivals, seize their businesses, and play it smart

  • Uncover why The Big Bad Wolf ended up wearing Grandma’s skin

My name is The Big Bad Wolf. And I’m standing over Grandma’s body.

In her hand is a torn scrap of paper: “On the Full Moon, when the Wolf fades.”

I will take her place. The place of a crime boss in Black City.

Either they expose me, or the police drag me away. But until the Full Moon, this city is mine.

These streets are crawling with illegal opportunities that can bring money and power. Hard choices are the only kind that matter here. There are plenty of shady businesses just begging to be plucked clean. Rivals? I’ll devour them.

Time to play by wolf rules.

Black City: a city of sin, populated by fairy-tale characters rotten to the core.

The Little Mermaid runs smuggling through the docks. Bluebeard drains lonely heiresses with his luxury self-improvement courses. Illegal liquor floods the streets under Baba Yaga’s control. The Tooth Fairy’s ravers push fairy soap through every club in town.

Only the one with the biggest teeth survives here.

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