While Telltale Games had spoken about its sequel to narrative adventure game The Wolf Among Us was still under development and hadn’t been cancelled, at this point, one of the studios working on the game for Telltale, AdHoc Studio, doesn’t quite know what the project’s current status is. In an interview with Eurogamer, AdHoc Studio co-founder Nick Herman spoke about how the studio worked on The Wolf Among Us 2 for a couple of years.
Herman said that the studio had worked on the script for the sequel, claiming it would be better than the original. However, issues started popping up when working on the game’s cinematics and animations, with progress on the project stalling out because Telltale needing more time. This led the studio to start working on other projects, including Dispatch.
“We wrote a season, Season Two,” explained Herman. “We think it’s better than Season One – and we were on Season One. And yeah, we’re really proud of it. We were doing tests. We were in cinematics and animation and stuff. And then basically they needed more time. “They weren’t… We weren’t running the project. It was Telltale we were doing it in partnership with. And we couldn’t wait around and do nothing, so we had to move on to Dispatch to keep the studio moving, and they needed to go their own way.”
“We’re looking forward to seeing what they do with it,” he continued. “I don’t know how much of our version of the script is going to make it into what they end up making. But if one day we were able to make the thing that we wrote and were in the middle of directing, we think people would love it. So, you know, good luck.”
The Wolf Among Us 2 has reportedly been under development for quite some time now, first under AdHoc Studio working alongside Telltale before being brought in directly at the publisher for in-house development. However, the company is yet to reveal any more information about the title since its confirmation from October 2024 that it hadn’t been cancelled.
“As a rule, we don’t comment on rumours and unsubstantiated Reddit threads,” said Telltale’s PR in a statement. “But development on The Wolf Among Us 2 continues, and we’re excited to share more about the game with Telltale fans and our community when the time is right.”
Earlier last year, Telltale Games had given us a look at The Wolf Among Us 2 with the release of a few screenshots. While the screenshots don’t really reveal much, they did confirm that Bigby Wolf will still be returning as the protagonist of the game, and that he will get to visit at least two distinct locations judging by the background art of the screenshots.
Development on the title had likely hit a major snag back in 2023 when a major part of the team working on it was laid off “due to current market conditions”. Among those that had to leave the company at the time included cinematic director Jonah Huang, who had noted that many of them had been laid off in September 2023.
