Wolf Among Us Returns in Noir Remaster This Week

Fabletown's sheriff is back on the case. The Wolf Among Us Remastered arrives on October 29, giving Telltale's noir narrative thriller a rebuilt presentation for modern consoles and PC, according to Xbox Wire's weekly release list. The date puts the remaster at the centre of a crowded Halloween week on Xbox, where a slate of 50 games lands between October 26 and October 30.

The game follows Bigby Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown, a hidden New York community where fairy-tale characters live in exile among ordinary people. A murder in the opening episode pulls Bigby into a conspiracy running beneath the city, and the choices players make in dialogue and investigation shape how Fabletown's residents respond to him. The original episodic run was released across 2013 and 2014, and it draws on Bill Willingham's Fables comics, published under DC's Vertigo imprint.

For returning players, the draw is not a new story. The remaster keeps the original plot, dialogue and decision structure intact, and instead rebuilds how it looks and sounds.

What the remaster changes

Every character model has been rebuilt from concept art upward, with more detailed faces, hair and clothing, and every scene has been relit, according to coverage of Telltale's announcement. Environments carry new textures and extra detail, and the Woodland building interiors have been redesigned with a turn-of-the-century look that sets them against the run-down streets of the surrounding city. The soundtrack has been remastered and voice audio rebalanced for clarity, while animation has been refined throughout.

The headline addition is Noir Mode, an optional black-and-white presentation that turns the whole story into a classic detective film, with darker shadows and sharper contrast. Players can switch between Noir Mode and the full-colour remastered look at any time. The package also restores deleted scenes from the original production as playable sequences, including an alternate version of one early investigation, and adds behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast and the remaster team, plus an art gallery drawn from the original production.

Telltale game director Matt Saia described the project as a respectful update in a PlayStation Blog interview, saying the team treated the original story, direction and art style as untouchable while moving the game onto the engine used for the studio's Batman series. The lighting work proved the hardest part, Saia said, because changing one scene meant reworking its lighting from scratch, and by the end of production each scene in the game had been relit.

The remaster launches on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 5. A Nintendo Switch version has been delayed, with a new date still to be announced, according to Telltale's product listings.

A Halloween week on Xbox

The remaster does not arrive alone. Xbox Wire's list for the week opens with the wordless horror adventure Ayasa: Shadows of Silence, in which players cross symbolic lands shaped by faith, hope, love, greed, indifference and betrayal, with a soundtrack composed by Komitas. The MMO-lite adventure Scramble Knights Online enters Game Preview on Game Pass at the start of the week, sending players on short cooperative quests across a shared online kingdom.

On October 27, the Victorian detective story The Séance of Blake Manor joins Game Pass. Set on the eve of All Hallow's Eve in 1897, it casts players as private investigator Declan Ward, who arrives at a country manor to find a missing woman and instead walks into a gathering of mystics waiting for the night when the veil between worlds is thinnest. Players interview suspects, record evidence in a journal and confront their deductions when the case is solid.

Later in the week, the parkour horror game Terrible Lizards also joins Game Pass. Set in 1992 at a deserted Route 66 dinosaur attraction, it strands players with a dead car, a ringing telephone and a voice asking for help finding a missing child. The week closes with Queen's Domain, a retro-fantasy action RPG in which players cross an interconnected island wielding a legendary holy sword, alongside returning favourites such as Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos and Hunting Simulator 3.

The timing fits the season. A horror-heavy slate landing in the days before Halloween gives Game Pass subscribers a run of seasonal titles without a single tentpole release carrying the week, and the remaster arrives in the same week as those new releases. More on the platform's hardware plans can be found in GenZ NewZ's earlier Xbox coverage, and the full weekly list sits in the Tech & Games section.

Sources: Xbox Wire's weekly release list and Twisted Voxel's report on the remaster's upgrades.