Current Events > Highly recommend this game Gnosia for the Switch, a Werewolf VN/RPG

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Werewolf games are all the rage, with Among Us at the helm. There are equally as many Werewolf game VNs that are generally survival horror, like Raging Loop, which is also absolutely excellent.

But Gnosia takes a different approach. It's basically a single player Werewolf game with random varying roles and crew and gnosias, which are the werewolves. You have people with widely varying "stats" like their ability to stay inconspicuous or their ability to convince others of what they think etc., or their ability to figure out logical deductions. You have your own stats that you can raise by playing the randomized werewolf game over and over, generally gradually becoming powerful enough to not be frequently targeted by the werewolf or be randomly voted off round 1. From this, you can gradually gather random special events or outcomes that happen if very specific conditions are met.

One other thing is that regardless of stats, gradually you'll start to pick up very very subtle behavior patterns of each of the crew members depending on what their role is. The game hints at a few behaviors, but it's hardly a comprehensive note on what each crew tends to do. Within the game itself, you also have to constantly counter arguments that happen in very basic repeated dialogues and gradually lead the crew to vote for the right person. But if you stand out too much, people will either suspect you or the gnosias will kill you, so there's a huge balancing act you have to do until you get better stats to really control the game singlehandedly

Of course in the background, there's an overarching story that's happening, where you're obviously trying to figure out why this looping werewolf game is happening and how you might go about solving it. Sometimes plot will be set up early, where a character gives you a certain condition, like keeping them alive or letting them purposely win games even though you know they're gnosias. By the end of the game, if you're successful, you'll be able to encounter a plot point. You can retry the same game as long as you keep the game settings the same, so it's ok to fail multiple times, as failing still gets you exp.

I think maybe after about a 100 loops (yeah... it honestly should take most players much more than 100 loops due to the randomness of the events) the stories you can find starts to wear a bit thin, and that's really the biggest problem with the game. You'll get insanely good at the game, but that also comes with a bit of frustration at the long wearing repetition. Also you're not gonna get a grand complicated story like Raging Loop had, which by comparison was just 3 games of werewolf with no randomness. But they constantly keep the intrigue up, and every time you get a special event that you don't see coming at all, it's shocking and sometimes frightening, sometimes utterly hilarious, though I would say the comedy scenes are a bit few in number, though very fucking funny, perhaps because the rest of the game is very doom and gloom.

Anyways, tl;dr, probably the best single player werewolf game RPG out there, if there even are any outside of Gnosia lols. Cool story, fun characters, interesting but sometimes repetitive gameplay, randomly vended scary/mysterious/funny events.

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