

Congresswolf
Choice of Games · 2016 · Indie, Adventure, RPG, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based
PC
Mixed62% · 13 📉 Recent reviews down 54%
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About Congresswolf
Is the next member of Congress a werewolf? Can you survive a lycanthrope's bite? There’s no silver bullet for winning an election!
Congresswolf is an interactive novel by Ellen Cooper, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--140,000 words, without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." -- James Bovard
When a werewolf murders your boss, you must step up to run a Congressional campaign all on your own. While werewolves, protestors, and worse--the media--lurk around every corner, you'll use everything you can to get your candidate elected.
Email servers? Tax returns? Who cares. Election-season secrets and October surprises are nothing compared to the possibility that your candidate might be a werewolf...or that you might become one yourself.
Congresswolf is an interactive novel by Ellen Cooper, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--140,000 words, without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." -- James Bovard
When a werewolf murders your boss, you must step up to run a Congressional campaign all on your own. While werewolves, protestors, and worse--the media--lurk around every corner, you'll use everything you can to get your candidate elected.
Email servers? Tax returns? Who cares. Election-season secrets and October surprises are nothing compared to the possibility that your candidate might be a werewolf...or that you might become one yourself.
- Play as any gender, play as gay or straight
- Set the right tone with your TV ads
- Prep your candidate for debates
- Impress big donors
- Get out the vote
- Find out who killed your predecessor
- Decide where your candidate will stand on werewolf rights
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I'm going to have to go with a thumbs down for this game. The story is written like it should've just been a short novel rather than a choose your own adventure because the author speaks for you and tells you how you feel in different scenarios 95% of the time. Your only real input being the Campaign manager simulation & romancing someone and even then the author is dictating your emotions and your stress levels. For instance as soon as I started to romance Abby, it immediately jumped from the sweet kindling fires of the budding relationship to [i] 'OMG you're a campaign manager, how can we ever make anything work with your work schedule! You hardly have time for me! Will we make it or is this a mistake and we're destined to fail!?' [/i] Like it ain't that life & death serious. For 1 I'm only a campaign manager until my Candidate wins/loses in a few months which will open up a lot of time and 2 normal people don't enter into relationships without having all their dooms day fears assuaged from the jump. Now speaking on the campaign manager simulation... I just couldn't get into it. It was written from the perspective of a college graduate trechcoat/loafer wearing go getter bottom …8 found this helpful
This is fun, and such a great premise. I love the weaving of werewolf issues and the madness of political campaigns, two great tastes that are even better together. This is definitely one I'll play a few times through.2 found this helpful
I was not very impressed with this story. While I thought that the plot was interesting, the text played out more like a badly written legal manual than an in-depth story.2 found this helpful
I really wish Steam had a "maybe" recommendation option. I'll have to go with a "no" because I'd prefer the game to be focused on my character and others and their development and background, here just an activity/event (the ingame election) is in focus, so if that's what you're looking for, "Congresswolf" will be your cup of tea. + The game does get the campaign management part done well: if you're hardly familiar with how the political system in the USA works some parts might be somewhat confusing, but most of it can be done with a "Not entirely sure what this is about, but let's go with the flow." attitude. I had the initiative to look up a few words, but the game expects familiarity over ignorance, so I didn't really learn anything worthwhile about how elections in the USA generally work, but it did well in covering what are the things a campaign would include having to worry about: funding, media coverage, speeches, personal life being somewhat intertwined with your job are becoming potencial scandal (who you date for example). + An honest and fair approach could still enable victory and give good interactions despite how most people probably don't associate politics wit…1 found this helpful
AWESOME.
Big fan of choose your own adventure books and this is a good read! I have a ton of these on my tablet but this one on steam is still a favorite!
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