Press release:
10 Feb 2021.
Different Tales, Walkabout Games, and World of Darkness are today very proud and excited to announce that their fan-favorite savage horror game “Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest” is coming to the PS4 and Xbox One on February 24th, 2021.
Furthermore, “Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest” will also be availablefor the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S via the consoles backward compatibility mode.
The award-winning Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X in the backward compatibility mode.
This award-winning narrative adventure was the first-ever adaptation of the legendary tabletop RPG from the World of Darkness universe.
In Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest you play as Maia, who, trying to learn more about her ancestry, discovers her family’s dark secrets. The adventure game is inspired by true events and set in real places: The Puszcza, a.k.a. the Bialowieza Forest, Europe’s last primeval wilderness.
Heart of the Forest will be released on PlayStation and Xbox platforms on February 24th for $14.99, on last-gen consoles, with backward compatibility on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
The pre-order is now available on the Xbox Store.
Adam Magdziak, Marketing Manager at Walkabout Games:
“After Different Tales’ great success was awarded the “Paszport Polityki,” Poland’s most important culture award, now we’re thrilled we can bring Heart of the Forest to fans of other platforms around the world.”
“The PlayStation & Xbox release of the Different Tales’ game is proof that we’re listening to our fans and answering their requests. We hope they’ll love what the amazing minds behind this title have created for both the veterans and the newcomers to the Werewolf: The Apocalypse RPG system, and the entire World of Darkness universe.”
The Playstation 4 and Xbox One releases of Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest feature the same artful and deeply involving experience in the World of Darkness universe.
The Playstation 4 version of the game supports the Playstation 4 Pro with 4K display mode and is future compatible with the Playstation 5 systems.
The Xbox One edition fully supports the Xbox One X console with 4K display mode and is future compatible with Xbox Series S & Xbox Series X.
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About Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a legendary role-playing game first released in 1992 by White Wolf. The player is a Garou, commonly referred to as a werewolf. Their kind is locked in a two-front war against the spiritual desolation of urban civilization and supernatural forces of corruption seeking to bring about the Apocalypse.
About Different Tales
Different Tales is a storytelling studio co-founded by The Witcher head story designer Artur Ganszyniec and project lead Jacek Brzeziński (The Witcher, Hitman, Dying Light).
Over the last dozen years, Different Tales members have worked on fantasy franchises with a cult following, mobile games for the mass market, artistic experiments, critically acclaimed products about killing people and prototypes that were meant to exceed the boundaries of the medium. They are always ready to tell a new story.
Website: differenttales.com
Facebook: facebook.com/differenttales/
Twitter: twitter.com/differenttales
About Walkabout Games
The publisher behind Liberated and Wanderlust: Travel Stories, Walkabout Games is a Polish publisher and developer of aspiring independent game studios.
It supports ambitious projects full of new, exciting, and risky ideas that evoke the kind of amazement that we all love video games for.
Website: walkabout.games
Facebook: facebook.com/WalkaboutGames/
Twitter: twitter.com/Walkabout_Games
About World of Darkness
World of Darkness is a transmedia entertainment brand encompassing a number of modern fantasy horror franchises, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and more. Through tabletop roleplaying games, video games, board games, literature, comic books, and more, these franchises tell mature stories in a dark supernatural fantasy layered over our modern world. Since 1991, World of Darkness has defined monster-perspective entertainment for a generation of fans. For more information visit www.worldofdarkness.com.
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround
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