{"id":84169,"date":"2026-06-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84169"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:37:04","slug":"the-wolf-among-us-2-the-first-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84169","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf Among Us 2: The First Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Along with the first season of Tales from the Borderlands, 2013&#8217;s The Wolf Among Us is my favorite of Telltale&#8217;s many classic narrative adventure games. Which is why when a second season was first announced in 2017 &#8212; yes, it goes back to The Before Times &#8212; I was as excited as anyone else. But as you may recall, things got messy after that. Not just because of a global pandemic, but because Telltale imploded in 2018 before being revived in 2019 &#8212; at which point The Wolf Among us 2 was re-announced.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, if you&#8217;re keeping track, this sequel has already suffered a studio closure, two announcements, and then, after all that&#8230;it disappeared. At one point, AdHoc studio &#8212; the ex-Telltale folks who brought us last year&#8217;s tremendous Dispatch in the same narrative adventure genre, but that fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>In came additional developer Trick Studios and publisher PM Studios, and the project is finally back on track. But there was yet another complication: the work that had been done was on the Telltale Engine &#8212; yes, the same framework that was already obviously creaky and flawed back when the original iteration of Telltale was still putting out games on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the first season of Tales from the Borderlands, 2013&#8217;s The Wolf Among Us is my favorite of Telltale&#8217;s many classic narrative adventure games. Which is why when a second season was first announced in 2017 &#8212; yes, it goes back to The Before Times &#8212; I was as excited as anyone else. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":84171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84173,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84169\/revisions\/84173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}