The Wolf Among Us 2
2027·Telltale Games
About this game
Let me paint you a picture. It's 2013. You've just finished The Wolf Among Us - all five episodes - and you're sitting there absolutely stunned by how much you loved it. The neon-soaked streets of Fabletown, the gritty noir atmosphere, Bigby Wolf as this genuinely compelling lead who's constantly wrestling between the monster he is and the sheriff he's trying to be. You finish it thinking "season two cannot come fast enough." Then 2014 passes. 2015. 2018 arrives and Telltale collapses entirely. The studio that made the game simply ceases to exist. Season two is cancelled. Gone. Done. Then in 2019 a new Telltale rises from the ashes under LCG Entertainment and announces they're somehow bringing it back. You allow yourself to hope. They confirm a 2023 release. You get genuinely excited. Then it gets delayed because they move to Unreal Engine 5. Then 2025 passes without so much as a screenshot. By Summer Game Fest 2026 you've made peace with the idea that The Wolf Among Us 2 simply isn't happening. And then Telltale walks out and drops a new gameplay trailer like nothing happened. I'm genuinely still processing it. The Wolf Among Us 2 was confirmed at Summer Game Fest 2026 with a proper release window of 2027, published alongside development partner PM Studios and officially licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It's coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store - a notably wide platform footprint that suggests Telltale is trying to reach absolutely everyone who might have played the original anywhere across the last decade. The story picks up approximately six months after the first game's events. Bigby Wolf returns as Fabletown's sheriff, but things have gotten considerably worse - a deadly conspiracy has torn apart the fragile peace among the exiled Fables, and Bigby finds himself betrayed, framed, and operating from the shadows to save a city that has been consumed by corruption, vengeance, and fear. The trailer teased investigations into brutal homicides linked to a mysterious monster loose in the city, with Snow White returning alongside a cast of familiar and new faces as she tries to maintain order while Bigby works the streets from exile. Telltale have been deliberately tight-lipped about major plot details beyond that setup - which honestly feels right for this kind of noir mystery where information is the currency. The gameplay style returns to what made the original work - choice-driven narrative, branching consequences, interrogations, tense dialogue exchanges where every word carries weight. The trailer showed ferocious cinematic combat sequences too, suggesting the action moments are getting a visual and mechanical upgrade over the original's more limited engine. The whole thing is now running on Unreal Engine 5, which given what the first game looked like - impressive for its time but very much a product of 2013 - should be a significant step forward in terms of atmosphere and presentation. On the development side, Telltale has partnered with Trick Studios for the technical side of things after the earlier collaboration with AdHoc Studio - a company formed by former Telltale employees including original directors Nick Herman and Dennis Lenart - wound down at some point during the long development. Original writer Pierre Shorette is still involved, as are voice actors Adam Harrington as Bigby and Erin Yvette as Snow White. Composer Jared Emerson-Johnson, whose score was genuinely one of the best parts of the first game, is also back. And alongside the sequel announcement, Telltale revealed one more thing: The Wolf Among Us Remastered is coming during the 2026 holiday season across all the same platforms, featuring graphical improvements to characters, lighting, animation, and environments, plus over an hour of bonus content including deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes material. It's a smart move - give newcomers a way to experience the original in its best form before the sequel arrives, and give long-time fans a reason to revisit it. Thirteen years between the original and this sequel. I replayed the first game twice in the last year alone, half convinced I was giving myself false hope. Turns out I wasn't.
