Portrait with Wolf is an expressionistic collage of determinist agency.

Inspired by the Interactive Fiction Art Shows of old.

Content warnings available in-game.

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Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (8 total ratings)
Author	Drew Cook
Genre	Interactive Fiction
Tags	artgame, Creepy, Experimental, Horror, inform, Multiple Endings, poetry, Singleplayer, Text based, weird
Content	No generative AI was used

Download

Portrait with Wolf (local file; requires an interpreter) 7.7 MB

Download

PWW source and build materials 14 MB

Install instructions

While the web version of Portrait with Wolf is recommended, the work can be experienced offline with an Interactive Fiction interpreter. If you don't already have one, I suggest Lectrote.

Development log

Official post-festival release!
May 11, 2025

Comments

Pigwithcoolglasses78 days ago (1 edit)

I played this with a friend and we found it fascinating! However we couldn't really parse it well (w regards to like, its meaning and the story(presumably) behind it), it was hard to get a head start, is there a simple way to approach this or is it meant to be slightly evasive?

Drew Cook78 days ago

Thanks for checking it out! When I made it, I envisioned each screen as a kind of poem. It is still a game, though, with a true ending to work toward. If you type E, you can see how many endings you have unlocked. That should give you an idea of how to move forward, even if the story isn't making sense yet.

There are some unlockables after the true ending, too.

Thanks again for playing my game!