Werewolves | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

Werewolves is fabulous fun as ringmaster Nick Phillips leads you cleverly through the game, creating an edge-of-your-seat unease.

Werewolves.

Werewolves

Interactive

Rating: ****1/2

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As night falls on the town of Millers Hollow, there’s a heap of trouble afoot as werewolves stalk the innocent villagers. As each morning breaks, the death toll rises and it’s up to those villagers to try and find the deadly creatures lurking in plain sight before – one by one – they become the vile creatures’ next meal.

It’s an interactive role-playing game of accusation, deceit and murder, where those playing must work together to rid the town of the enemy to save their village.

So we sit – a room full of strangers (and a couple of bona fide reality TV stars with Survivor’s King George of Bankstown and 2021 Brain v Brawn winner Hayley Leake) – as we are handed a card with our role to play in this community under attack.

Is she a Werewolf? The seer who can see all? Or “just” a villager like she says? Is the exuberant one saying “Oh we all villagers together?” to be believed or is he strategising this early on? Or am I being played and about to become the next corpse on the pile? It’s deliciously difficult, but a whole lot of fun in the working out.

Werewolves is 60 minutes of fabulous fun, as ringmaster Nick Phillips leads us cleverly through the gameplay, creating an edge-of-your-seat unease, while his soft, melodious tones comfort as he calmly details the latest murder.

It’s the perfect initiation for those unfamiliar with the game and still an absolute delight, for the uber fans of the game. So much fun in fact, I want to play again. And again. (But please can I be a werewolf this time?)