Wolf Game

The original story for the *Wolf Game* (狼ゲーム lit. *Ookami geemu*) universe.

Twelve strangers are gathered in an unknown building and forced to partake in a killing game in order to escape. Each participant must pick a card, either a Wolf card or a Sheep card, and players that draw a Wolf card must kill one Sheep. However, there's a truth behind the killing game that the participants need to uncover.

## Characters

At the start of the game, there are 12 participants in total and the 2 "hosts".

The player character's name and face are not revealed until after the main story ends.

## Building Layout

**1F (clockwise from top left):** Toilet/Shower Room, Kitchen, Library, Living Room**2F (clockwise from top):** Armory, Garden Room, Storage Room**3F (clockwise from top left):** Common Room, Classroom, Sickroom
## Plot

The chapter sections below are general overviews of what occurs in each chapter of the main story. Investigations and trial sections will have their own separate pages which can be found at the end of each chapter overview.

### Chapter 1

Inside a train, a crazed man named Yuuya stabs a woman to death. In his derangement, he sees sheep faces through the door windows leading to the next train car. Ignoring them, he leaps to his death out of the train and onto the adjacent train tracks where he's run over.

The scene transitions to an unnamed protagonist (labeled as "yourself" in the text window) sitting in the middle of a pitch dark room. A female voice calls out to him and suggests that they both look for a light switch. The protagonist is too afraid to get up, and she comes up behind him and asks if he'll run away again. He denies the claim and gets up, finding the light switch along the wall. When the lights come back on, there's no one else in the room with him.

Once out of the room, the protagonist is greeted by the other people in the building who all also woke up to find themselves there with no memory of how or by whom. A disembodied voice tells everyone to sit in their assigned seats, but nobody listens and everyone is electrocuted as punishment. When everyone is seated, two dolls, Merry and Wolf, appear and introduce themselves as the hosts of The Wolf Game, then proceed to explain the rules.

**The Rules of The Wolf Game**

* Every round, each participant must choose a card
	+ There are two kinds of cards, Wolf cards and Sheep cards
* Whoever draws a Wolf card is expected to kill a Sheep
* 12 hours after a Sheep is killed, there will be a Wolf Trial held
	+ During the trial, the Sheep team wins if they can figure out who the Wolf is
	+ If the Wolf is discovered, an escape door will open
* If the Wolf does not kill a Sheep, the Wolf will be executed

The protagonist pulls a Sheep card this round.

After the rules are explained and the hosts vanish, the participants decide to split into pairs and search the building for a way out. The protagonist searches the third floor with a young girl that speaks Kansai dialect named Misaki Mori. They search a classroom where the windows have been blocked off. There's a desk that's been written all over with a vase of flowers, and in the drawer, there's a piece of card stock addressed to Yuuya from his classmates stating that they're having a commemoration party for his death. On the blackboard, there's a message addressed to the "Sheep" asking if they're aware of their true selves.

The next destination is the sick room where all of the windows have also been blocked off. There's a stack of papers detailing patient psychiatry records, and the protagonist and Misaki decide to take the files with them to show everyone else.

Back in the living room, each group shares their findings. There are seemingly no exits, but on the first floor, there's a kitchen stocked with food and water; on the second floor, there's an armory room with medicine and weapons. The patient files from the third floor turn out to be psychiatrist Satoru Yonemori's patient files.

Police officer Takeo Kojima offers to guard the armory because it looks to be the most dangerous room, and as a security measure, takes stage actor Takuya Tsuchiya with him. Suspicion is rampant among the other participants and everyone ends up scattered.

Several hours later, the protagonist hears a scream coming from the garden room, and the participants find Misaki and the dead body of lawyer Miho Kaidou.

To read through the **investigation section**, see here.

To read through the **trial section**, see here.

**The Victim:** Miho Kaidou

**The Executed:** Satoru Yonemori (Correct)

**Cause of Death:** Poison injected via needle

**Remaining Participants:** 10/12

* Protagonist
* Misaki Mori
* Rintarou Iida
* Kou Niimura
* Ritsu Kamiki
* Chie Komiya
* Takeo Kojima
* Takuya Tsuchiya
* Maki Takayama
* Osamu Nagai

### Chapter 2

Following Satoru's execution, it is revealed that they were correct in deducing the Wolf. The escape door opens and reveals another room. On a bed in the room, the covers are pulled off to reveal a mannequin dressed like a hospital patient. Its name tag reads "Yuuya". Seated at a nearby desk is a life-sized doll of the recently executed Satoru, and a paper is found in his hand that says, "You could've saved them, right? But you abandoned them." There is another document on the desk addressed to Satoru from five years ago, warning him to do his job properly. On the wall, the words "It's not a coincidence that you were all gathered here...it's a necessity" are written.

Merry and Wolf appear to distribute the cards again, and the participants retaliate saying that they promised an escape door would open if they executed the Wolf. It's revealed that the only ones that will make it out are the people who figure out the truth behind The Wolf Game. Merry vanishes and Wolf stays behind to hand out the cards.

The protagonist pulls a Sheep card this round.

The other participants spend their time scattered once again due to mounting suspicions and tensions against one another. Several hours later, nothing's happened yet, and the protagonist finds himself feeling drowsy due to not having slept since arriving. During his sleep, he has a dream about his childhood and wakes up with a start. Not sure of what time it is, the protagonist quietly heads to the bathroom.

Out in the corridor, the protagonist spots a figure that hasn't noticed his presence yet. Believing that it'll be beneficial in the next trial, he decides to follow after the figure on the chance that they might be the Wolf. The floor creaks as the protagonist walks along, making the figure stop. After making sure the figure hasn't noticed him, the protagonist begins pursuit again, but turns the corner of the hallway to find the figure in a wolf mask staring back at him.

After being chased by the masked figure into a room, the protagonist lets out a loud yell and the figure rushes off. He spends the rest of the night with his guard constantly up, looking out for the Wolf. Several hours later, the other participants begin waking up, and the protagonist heads to the living room to meet them. Once there, someone lets out a scream from somewhere else in the building.

In the isolation cell room, Takuya's dead body is discovered with his face horribly bashed in.

To read through the **investigation section**, see here.

To read through the **trial section**, see here.

**The Victim:** Takuya Tsuchiya

**The Executed:** Takeo Kojima (Incorrect)

**Cause of Death:** Beaten to death with a blunt object

**Remaining Participants:** 8/12

* Protagonist
* Misaki Mori
* Rintarou Iida
* Kou Niimura
* Ritsu Kamiki
* Chie Komiya
* Maki Takayama
* Osamu Nagai

### Chapter 3

Takeo is revealed to have been a Sheep after his execution ends, and an escape door does not open for this round. Everyone draws cards again to decide if they're a Wolf or a Sheep.

The protagonist pulls a Wolf card this round.

Shaken at the prospect of killing someone, the situation inspires a brief memory in the protagonist from his childhood. After recovering from the sudden recollection, he mentally steels himself so he can focus on surviving.

During the first part of the investigation section, the protagonist procures a mirror fragment to use as a bladed weapon, but gets a cut on his left hand in the process. He runs into teacher Osamu Nagai in the sick room while looking for bandages and lies about the cut.

In the second part of the investigation section, the protagonist goes to look for a target to kill. His first attempt is on Ritsu Kamiki's life, but Rintarou Iida appears in the room and he loses his chance. The second attempt is on journalist Maki Takayama, but after she turns her back to him, Kou Niimura appears in the room and he loses his chance again.

The third attempt is on Misaki. He's unable to gather the courage to attack her and feels guilt at the idea of her dying in pain, so the protagonist plans to put her to sleep before attacking her. After using a cup of black tea to drug her with sleeping pills, the protagonist ultimately decides he can't kill her and goes to look for someone else.

In the library, the protagonist finds Osamu slumped over on a bench. Wondering if he's sleeping, he takes the opportunity to attack Osamu while he hasn't been noticed yet. Upon closer inspection, it's revealed that Osamu has already been killed.

Maki spots the protagonist trying to kill Osamu and questions him on why when she's the Wolf. This leads to the revelation that there are two Wolves this round, and Maki ropes the protagonist into helping her cover up the crime. In an effort to deceive the other participants, they make a plan to set the body on fire and, using Maki's voice recorder, make it seem as though the crime happened at a different time than it did to give themselves alibis.

During the trial, Maki turns on the protagonist and attempts to pin the crime on him, but does not succeed.

To read through the **investigation section**, see here.

To read through the **trial section**, see here.

**The Victim:** Osamu Nagai

**The Executed:** Maki Takayama (Correct)

**Cause of Death:** Stabbed

**Remaining Participants:** 6/12

* Protagonist
* Misaki Mori
* Rintarou Iida
* Kou Niimura
* Ritsu Kamiki
* Chie Komiya

### Chapter 4

Maki is declared a Wolf after her execution and another escape door opens, revealing another room. In the room, there are two dolls, a male and female child. On a slip of paper that one of the children is writing on, it says "I want to kill Yuuya". A life-sized doll of Maki is also in the room with the words "Those of you who live off of people's unhappiness have no value". On another line, "Your guys' deeds have derailed a life" is written. The remaining participants discuss the connection between the name "Yuuya" and what's written on the papers, but no one seems to recognize the name.

Merry appears and has everyone draw another card to decide the next Wolf. Before they pick cards, Misaki asks Merry whether Yuuya exists and who they are. Merry claims that he's a real person, and that they all know who he is. Wolf interrupts their conversation and orders them to pick a card.

The protagonist pulls a Sheep card this round.

As a gift to the participants, Merry and Wolf hand them a box, claiming that its contents will help them escape. Once the box is opened, a document is found inside regarding Takeo's one year suspension from work due to neglecting a dangerous criminal on the job. The date is listed as being from five years ago. A woman's sweater splattered in blood is also found in the box.

The participants discuss the relevance of these new pieces and come to the conclusion that The Wolf Game is some kind of revenge plot for some case that occurred five years prior. With no other information to go on, they go about their activities, and the protagonist decides to procure the weapon from the previous chapter (which he'd hidden in the garden room prior to the Wolf Trial) in order to make himself a more difficult target for the current Wolf.

In the garden room, the protagonist lifts the case he'd hidden the mirror shard under only to find that it's no longer there. Misaki comes into the room, startling the protagonist, and claims that she found something related to Yuuya, but it would be dangerous if the others knew about it. She then tells him to secretly go to the classroom later.

In the classroom, there's a piece of paper folded on the floor. The protagonist reaches for the paper, but feels a presence in the room and turns to find Misaki trying to kill him. He successfully manages to disarm her and the commotion attracts the other participants to the room. Misaki is pinned as the Wolf and is executed without a trial.

**The Victim:** N/A

**The Executed:** Misaki Mori (Correct)

**Cause of Death:** N/A

**Remaining Participants:** 5/12

* Protagonist
* Rintarou Iida
* Kou Niimura
* Ritsu Kamiki
* Chie Komiya

### Chapter 5

Once Misaki has been executed, another escape door opens leading into a room that looks like the inside of a train car. By the door at the back of the car, there are three sheep dolls, and the protagonist recognizes the scene. On the ground, there's a piece of paper with "Did you recall something looking at this scene? Or did you realize something?" written on it.

There's a button on the sheep dolls that, when pressed, play back voices mentioning Yuuya and abandoning someone or something. This recording seems to make Kou and Ritsu come to some realization, and the protagonist is certain that The Wolf Game has something to do with a particular case from five years ago. Before the protagonist can come to any more conclusions, Wolf appears to distribute the cards once again.

The protagonist pulls a Sheep card this round.

Exhausted, the protagonist decides to find a safe place to get some rest. He ends up hiding in the shadow of a bookcase in the library and taking a nap. Once again, he has a dream about his childhood. The boy that befriended him in the fourth grade after he'd transferred schools was bullied, and due to his own cowardice, he ended up abandoning his friend. It's revealed that this caused his friend to commit suicide, and the protagonist has carried the weight of the experience since then.

He wakes up an indeterminate amount of time later to find Rintarou standing in front of him. Initially thinking Rintarou is there to kill him, Rintarou dissuades his thoughts and says that if he were the Wolf, he would've killed him while he was sleeping. Rintarou proceeds to ask if the protagonist was the Wolf in the previous round, then explains that he saw him carry a weapon into the library.

The protagonist asks why he didn't say anything during the trial if he knew, and it's revealed that in the second round, Rintarou was the Wolf that killed Takuya, and he kept quiet as a favor for not getting him executed in the second trial. Rintarou then suggests that they head to the living room where the others are.

In the living room, 4 of the 5 remaining participants are gathered, with Chie Komiya being the only one missing. The group decides to look for her together, and the protagonist finds her behind the door of the storage room, which seems to be locked from the inside. The protagonist procures a crowbar from the armory and Rintarou wrenches the door open from the outside.

Chie is found draped over a chair with a suicide note in her lap and a bottle of poison nearby. Kou calls the hosts to ask what happens if the Wolf commits suicide, and Merry explains that the Wolf Trial will still happen even in that situation, and that there's always the possibility that it might not be a suicide. The participants proceed to investigate Chie's death to prepare for the trial.

To read through the **investigation section**, see here.

To read through the **trial section**, see here.

**The Victim:** Chie Komiya

**The Executed:** Ritsu Kamiki (Correct)

**Cause of Death:** Poisonous gas

**Remaining Participants:** 3/12

* Protagonist
* Rintarou Iida
* Kou Niimura

### Chapter 6

Once Ritsu has been executed, another escape door opens to reveal one more door behind it with "LAST DOOR" written on the front. Merry and Wolf explain that this door is the one that will let them leave, but Kou questions how they'll be able to continue The Wolf Game with only three remaining members. The hosts state that they've already thought of that, and Wolf tells them that the three participants will take part in a Wolf Death Match.

Merry explains that the Wolf Death Match, in simple terms, is a mutual killing game in which the last person standing will get to leave. Each of the three remaining players is given a pistol with six bullets and are asked to pick one of three cards. The numbers on the cards designate the order in which they leave the trial room to prepare for the death match, with 1 leaving first and 3 leaving last.

The protagonist pulls the card with the number 1 on it.

After leaving the room, the protagonist decides to find a place to hide in order to survey the situation. His hiding place ends up being in the cabinet that Osamu's body was hidden in the third round. A voice calls out for the second person to leave the room, and the protagonist hears footsteps in the corridor and someone entering the library. While the mystery person in the room is walking around in the library, the third person is told to leave the trial room.

Soon after the mystery person in the room is near the cabinet the protagonist is hiding in, Rintarou shows up to the library and reveals the mystery person to be Kou. Unable to see what's going on, the protagonist overhears them talking about the truth of The Wolf Game. Rintarou suspects that Kou's realized the truth, and Kou states that it has to do with the case from five years ago, but that he has no connection to it.

Rintarou says that he is connected to it and will reveal the truth to him. The next moment, the protagonist hears a gunshot go off and footsteps leaving the room. Once he's out of hiding, he sees Kou's body covered in blood on the floor. The protagonist decides it would be more beneficial to strike first and goes to find Rintarou.

Hearing a noise from the floor above, the protagonist goes to investigate, and the noise leads him to the garden room. No one is inside, but he turns around to find Rintarou behind him and subsequently has a bullet graze his leg. Dashing out of the room, he finds himself hiding in the isolation cell room waiting for Rintarou to show up. Rintarou appears not too long after, having followed the trail of blood left behind by the protagonist's bleeding leg.

When Rintarou approaches a batch of gas cylinders in the room, the protagonist shoots at them and causes them to explode, knocking Rintarou to the ground. In his hesitation, Rintarou gets up and questions him on whether he's realized the truth about The Wolf Game and figured out the points of commonality between the participants. He then confirms that it has to do with a murder case five years prior in which a man named Yuuya was the culprit.

It's revealed that the protagonist was at the scene of the crime when it happened, and that Rintarou's parents were the ones killed on the train in that case. He explains that The Wolf Game is his revenge against the people that were responsible for his parents' deaths, and goes on to describe the part everyone played leading up to the present.

**The reason each character was forced to participate:**

* **Osamu Nagai:** Saw Yuuya get bullied in middle school and pretended not to notice
* **Satoru Yonemori:** Mentally destroyed Yuuya by giving him too much medicine and making his condition worse after he was admitted to a psychiatric ward for killing his mother
* **Chie Komiya:** Sold Yuuya illegal drugs over the internet after he became dependent on medication and wanted stronger doses
* **Miho Kaidou:** Won Yuuya shorter sentences at trial after he got in trouble with the police multiple times
* **Takeo Kojima:** Was in charging of keeping an eye on Yuuya because of his status as a dangerous person, but neglected his duty
* **Maki Takayama:** Persistently interviewed Rintarou after the case to publish in articles
* **Kou Niimura:** Managed to procure insider information and published it on a website for profit
* **Protagonist, Ritsu Kamiki, Takuya Tsuchiya:** Were riding on the same train and left his family to die

Rintarou presents the protagonist with a choice, asking him if he plans to run away again like he's done so many times before and if he'll shoot him.

#### **Normal End**

The protagonist has a mental dilemma about what the right decision to make is, and in the first play of the story, the player will be presented with only one option (to shoot Rintarou). A gunshot goes off, and the protagonist realizes that there's a sudden intense pain in his abdomen and that he's been shot by someone.

In front of him, Rintarou is crying and says that it's a shame the protagonist hasn't changed. The other mysterious person that shot the protagonist speaks, and he recognizes their voice. He asks if they never planned to let anyone leave, and it's revealed that it was possible from the start for everyone to have survived. He goes on to say that The Wolf Game wasn't just a revenge plot, but a test for all of the participants.

As the protagonist is coming to a conclusion about the purpose of The Wolf Game, he loses consciousness.

#### **True End**

**Requirements to Unlock the True End:**

* Go back to the investigation part in Chapter 5 and locate the new family photo item in the living room on the fourth floor
* Choose the new "Don't shoot" option during the ending sequence of the Wolf Death Match

Once the player has selected not to shoot Rintarou, the protagonist states that he's sick of running away all the time and saving himself before other people. He goes on to say that if the participants in The Wolf Game had taken a moment to think about someone other than themselves, things likely would've turned out differently, and Rintarou's family might never have died. During the course of The Wolf Game, all of the participants showed that they were willing to sacrifice other people to save themselves, and the protagonist believes that that's what the game was meant to convey to them.

A door opens from behind him and the mysterious person is revealed to be Misaki, who explains that she was also one of the children that survived the incident and that she and Rintarou are siblings. They tell the protagonist that he's successfully met the conditions for escape, and explain that the condition for leaving was to be willing to give up one's own life for the sake of helping someone else. In choosing to spare Rintarou, the protagonist would be endangering himself to save another person.

The siblings tell the protagonist to live on with the same courage it took to make that decision once he's escaped, and the protagonist asks them how they plan to live their lives from that point forward. He suggests that they should take their experiences and also summon the courage to move on with their life. Rintarou, in a fit of rage, readies his pistol and fires a shot at the protagonist, but Misaki jumps in the way and is shot instead.

As she's dying, she tells Rintarou that she wants him to be able to move on with his life. Rintarou embraces her and tells the protagonist to leave. As he exits the building into the surrounding forest area, the building goes up in flames behind him. The scene fades as the protagonist stares back at the burning building.

## Eve Project

An alternate universe story featuring Kou as the protagonist. He and seven others are transported to a mysterious world and must uncover the secret behind it.

## Side Stories

*Wolf Game* features various side stories that can range from being lighthearted to dark depending on the theme. Some of these stories take place in a parallel universe where all of the main characters survive, but still exist within the same basic timeline as The Wolf Game.

### **Wolf Game Spinoff Collection**

These stories primarily focus on the characters' pasts and the events leading up to them ending up in The Wolf Game. After completing the main story, it's recommended to read these next.

*Includes:*

* Side: Chie
* Side: Ritsu
* Side: Protagonist
* Post-Main Story (Rintarou)
* Kou's Past

### **Kou POV Series**

Kou's perspective story after the conclusion of The Wolf Game. This series is recommended after completing the Wolf Game Spinoff Collection stories.

*Includes:*

* Side: Rintarou
* Side: Yukinari
* Side: Soushirou

### **Boys/Girls Party Series**

A lighthearted gathering of the characters in *Wolf Game*. Takes place in a parallel world where none of the characters are dead.

*Includes:*

* Secret Boys Party
* Secret Girls Party

### **Seasonal Stories**

The participants of The Wolf Game celebrating various holidays. Takes place in a parallel world where none of the characters are dead.

*Includes:*

* Summer Vacation
* Summer Wishes
* Halloween 2018
* Christmas 2018
* New Year's 2019
* Sports Festival 2019

## Quest Stories

The quest stories usually come in multiple parts and, barring the *Wolf POV Series*, take place in alternate or parallel universes that have nothing to do with the main story of *Wolf Game*.

### **Wolf POV Series**

Re-tellings of The Wolf Game events from the perspective of the Wolf.

*Includes:*

* Behind the First Murder...
* Fated Crossing of Paths

### **Wolf Game Parallel Series**

Stories that take place in the *Wolf Game* parallel universe where none of the characters die, but they all know of The Wolf Game.

*Includes:*

* Mystery Train

### **Wolf Detective White Paper Series**

An alternate universe story featuring Yukinari, Osamu, Soushirou, and Tsubaki as detectives solving the mysteries behind a strange village.