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The Shadow Wolf Mysteries series is a hidden object game series developed by AMAX Interactive and published by Big Fish Games between 2011 and 2016. The series chronicles investigations into dangerous attacks with supposed sightings of wolves - or worse, werewolves.
The game series is listed as follows:
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Curse of the Full Moon
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Bane of the Family
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Under the Crimson Moon
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Tracks of Terror
- Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Curse of Wolfhill
Shadow Wolf Mysteries prowls around these roads of examples:
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Shared Tropes
- Our Werebeasts Are Different and Our Werewolves Are Different: Anything involving werewolves - be it lore or morality - is bound to differ in each of the games.
- Private Detective: You play as a detective who solves strange cases involving wolves.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Curse of the Full Moon
- Drowning Pit: Louise almost loses her life to this, but the detective manages to save her in time.
- Emergency Impersonation: Madlen helps the detective avoid capture by dressing in their clothes and acting as a decoy.
- Fortune Teller: Madlen, who works in the circus.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Gerard and his brother, Michael, have been using the wolf attack scare in order to steal money and riches for themselves.
- Secret Room: And with hidden treasure, no less. It gives the detective reason to believe the treasure is Gerard's true motives.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Bane of the Family
- All Just a Dream: Louise assures Veronica of this to spare her the horror she experienced.
- Evil Matriarch: Countess de la Fer wants Veronica to become a werewolf like the rest of the family - by any means necessary. Her husband opposes that.
- Find the Cure!: The detective helps hunt for the cure to Veronica's werewolf heritage.
- Give Her A Normal Life: What Count de la Fer did with his daughter, Veronica, because he didn't want her to be dragged into their family's darker heritage.
- "Inescapable" Prison Easily Escaped: Countess Fer traps the detective, assuming they wouldn't interfere with her plans to empower herself. They got out anyway.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Cursed Wedding
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The detective helps a circus performer get food for him and flowers for someone he wants to propose to, he helps the detective in turn by removing the chains from the gate and later operating the ride to the upper streets.
- Frame-Up: Mephistus attempted to have Banks, a man seeking to avenge his sister, framed for the attacks. It didn't work for him.
- Humanshifting: Mephistus impersonates Mr. Smith's form when coming out to confront the detective.
- The Mirror Shows Your True Self: The detective uses a mirror to discern who is a werewolf and who isn't.
- Protective Charm: Veronica's amulet prevents Mephistus from harming her.
- The End... Or Is It?: After defeating Mephistus, Veronica and her fiancé embrace, assuming it's over. But when the camera zooms closer, his hands become a little bit beastly...
- Wedding Smashers: Mephistus has been harassing Veronica before the wedding date.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Under the Crimson Moon
- Animal Testing: Francois has been using the dog, Curly, as a test subject for an experimental serum.
- Beast and Beauty: Edgar and Martha. That is, until the ending of the bonus chapter shows Martha change into a werewolf as well.
- The Cameo: Louise from the first two games is seen in a picture alongside Ellis.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Francois attacks the detective more than once, thinking his sister is dead. She isn't.
- Organ Theft: Francois had been taking organs from victims in order to craft medicine to sell at steep prices.
- Strapped to an Operating Table: Edgar was found captured this way. The detective helps him escape after dealing with Francois.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Tracks of Terror
- Arbitrary Skepticism: The doctor never believed that the de Lupe family has a hereditary werewolf curse, even providing a medicine that actually triggered Pierre's curse. He changes his mind upon hearing that the stories of the curse are unquestionably true, and helps for real.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: We learn that Pierre would come of age to continue his family's work...but there's also the matter of inheriting the family curse.
- Dying Curse: According to an old tale, a tyrannical wizard cursed the man who dared challenge and bring him down into becoming a werewolf.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Ancestors of the de Lupe family have the misfortune of being betrayed, no matter what good they've done.
- Hanging Around: One ancestor was hanged after getting caught escaping execution.
- Poison Is Evil: Marcel, an acquaintance of the family, poisoned Pierre's father prior to the detective's arrival.
- Silver Bullet: You use some to defend yourself against a werewolf.
Shadow Wolf Mysteries: Curse of Wolfhill
- Deceptive Disciple: The real Druid was murdered by his apprentice for discovering his horrible experiments with humans and red mistletoe.
- Missing Mom: Your mom went missing years ago when you were small. Turns out she was changed into a wolf and had been used by the Druid for his machinations.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Henry Miller, in the bonus game. He's been using his supposed medical expertise to lure patients to his clinic so he can conduct his experiments.
