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Wolf

DOS - 1994

PC Gamer said it all: "With Wolf, Sanctuary Woods [produced] a roleplaying simulation that detailed the everyday life of wolves in the wild. By challenging the player's skill in hunting, killing, mating, and survival...

Lion isn't quite the step beyond Wolf you might expect, but it does have its nice little touches... You can use the long grass to creep up on your prey; vultures circle overhead at the kill site; and your eyes glow a fierce amber in the darkness of the savanna night. This fresh approach to "edutainment" painlessly enlightened us, while entertaining as few games have done before."

Definitely the best animal simulations ever made that successfully combine fun, realism, and educational content. Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Tael 02 Jul. 2026

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition kinda blows it out of the water, but it's still very nostalgic and very pleasing to look at. You can really vibe with it and just kinda turn your brain off and become wolf.

0
thrakhath 22 Jul. 2025

I still have the game on cdrom. very rare game. one of the best wolf simulation games

2
maplemo 07 Dec. 2024

such a charming game, wish more people knew about it

2
Im Not a crazy wolf person you know, the people wi 29 Jul. 2023

Hey Tarkahwild and Titaniumteeth, I don't know if this is the problem, but there are two download options for the game, so maybe one has sound effects, and the other doesn't ?

3
ALANA 19 Mar. 2023

wolf game yas good

4
AH I AM SO CONFUSED 03 Jun. 2022

Okay, is this a bug or something?, cause it scared the heck out of me- So I played it like usual, and then the music started being off, (I was playing on the browser) It would play the music and then it would play another song on top of it, the song that was on top of the other normal one would be a cover of it, and I started to think, "Huh, weird, never heard this before." But then I started to think that was not normal, I was walking alone with the alpha at this time and then another song, the song that either says that the sun is rising or going down started playing (Along with the scene) and had a piano cover on top of it. I instantly closed the tab and was very confused. Can someone explain this?

1
NYAN CAT MEOWMEOWMEOWMEOW 19 Feb. 2022

IT WONT LET ME DOWNLOAD THIS GAME! I CANT EVEN GET OUT OF THE FREAKING MANUL

0
xD 06 Apr. 2021

I haven't played it yet, but i bet it's gonna be awsome!

2
Idk 25 Oct. 2020

when you guys give out how to have pups,I try it....IT NEVER WORKS!

2
Ledgendhg 29 Sep. 2020

Put all your game on play stor

-1
Tarkah Wild 19 Aug. 2020

Yeah, I hear the music but no sound effects, whats up with that? Its same with browser and dos. Anybody know how to fix it?

1
TitaniumTeeth 21 May. 2020

Ive got the game installed and working, but is there any way to go back and fix the audio? I can hear the music in the game, but no sound effects. Thanks!

2
XZeR0_vErSiD 25 Sep. 2019
Top comment

*** READ IT FIRST, DO IT LATER. ***

Download the Wolf ISO file.
Download 7-zip and install it. (will use to extract the ISO file)
Download DOSBox and install it. (this will make the game to work)
Download WinCDEmu and install it. (this will emulate the ISO as a cd-rom)

Use 7-zip to extract the ISO file to a folder you like.

Now you get the WOLF.IMG file. Right click on this file and "Select driver letter & mount" (this is the WinCDEmu).

Magically you have now a new CD-ROM drive mounted (should be something similar to your local Hard Disk (C:))

OK.

Now, run the DOSBox.

READ what is WRITTEN if you have any issues.

Basically you have to MOUNT the CD-ROM as a drive unit on DOSBox.

Now you have a black screen with a Z: waiting for commands.

To make easy, type this: mount c c:\wolf

This will make a path to the system to use your c:\wolf as the installation directory.

If you struggle to mount the CD, type: intro cdrom

Here you will need to remember what is the drive letter you assigned to your virtual cd-rom (wincdemu)(one of the first steps).

Type this to mount the cd-rom: mount d X:\-t cdrom

Where you see the X:\ change for the driver letter you chose above.

GREAT! If everything is ok, then you can play. Just a few more steps to go.

SUPPOSING you entered the command above: mount d X:\ -t cdrom --- then your CD-ROM on DOSBox will be D:

Type: D:
Type: Dir

If everything is OK, then you will see some files: install, setup, wolf and a Wolf directory.

Type: install

The installation screen (blue) will be displayed, then:

Enter the CD-ROM drive (in this case D)
Now the installation directory (c:\wolf)
Now it asks for the F key to run faster.
Press enter to install.

Wait to finish.

Type: c:
Type: cd wolf
Type: wolf

Play the game.

7
OwOTheFurry 02 Feb. 2019

I love this game! I wish I could find some way to recommend this game to SeriPixelBiologist on YouTube!(Since she's a gamer who only plays animal related games) I enjoy playing this game a lot since it's one of those educational games that are actually FUN and don't have "ducks/owls with college hats on" Or some downright annoying "girl narrator" just saying "HOW MANY DUCKS DOES GEORGE NEED IN THIS PROBLEM!?" It's a half-simple half-complex game that makes me smile at the sight of it. Plus I also like the follow-up to this game, Lion. (If you want to find the game then google "Lion 1995 game" because just typing "Lion game" brings in too many search results. :/ Anyway this is OwOTheFurry checking out! ????

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No-EXE 14 Jun. 2018

Download DOSbox

Drag the WOLF doc' in DOSbox

So....Where the folder EXE? Where "Wolf.exe" ? Nothing ._.

-2
star 07 May. 2018

how do play it though

0
Anonymous 03 Nov. 2017

To play this game, you must download a DOS program.

Most DOS programs need quite a bit of work to work on 64-bit computers, which are the majority nowadays
but vDosPlus works on both 32-bit and 64-bit.

-3
Wolfie 23 Sep. 2017

Wooooohooo

1
Magicman Nightmare 17 Aug. 2017

What hell

-3
Silverleap 21 May. 2017

Hope that it turns out great!

1
Wolfheart 30 Apr. 2017

Looks cool and, from what I've seen from YouTube of this game, it should be fun and work somewhat smoothly. I hope I enjoy it as much as I like watching other people play it and, if this does work, I thank you very much for allowing me to download it.

0
mata 08 Mar. 2017

To those saying they can't play: You have to run it on DOSbox, which can be found here https://www.dosbox.com/

to run it, drag WOLF.exe onto dosbox.exe

1
.................... 06 Jan. 2017

Um I'm confused how do u play it when u download it I went to my folder clicked on it and it said something about downloading an app..............

0
xLanz 16 Jun. 2016

i love this game!!!!

0
toxiclynx 09 Feb. 2016

I downloaded it but when I go to install it it says that the app doesn't work on this pc what do I do plz answer

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Moon the She-wolf 02 Jan. 2016

I am downloading it and I CANNOT PLAY IT!!!! HELP ME PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BrightEyes 10 Dec. 2015

It will not let me download the game wolf please let me download it

1
CrowFeather 24 Oct. 2015

I like it

0
sshernandez 26 Sep. 2015

hey this game really looks good i hope at least

1
skywolf4452 17 Sep. 2015

i got it but its just a bunch of random stuff WHAT DO I DO!

-1
Scarletwhisper666 13 Jun. 2015

great game and speed too!

0
odin4905 01 May. 2015

This reminds me of an MMO type game I tried once called WolfQuest I believe. Wouldn't surprise me if many of the same people made both games. That game is still up and running as well I think. :)

-2
Leeroybug 02 Mar. 2015

I downloaded it, and it opened a file, but what do I do now?

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animalmae 12 Jan. 2015

i love wolves

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cheerio 11 Nov. 2014

Game is awesome as a wolf simulator. Takes a bit to load, and you have to know how to open DOS games. Otherwise, great! I really hope they are working on it, because there's so much they can add and do, like multiplayer.

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Twilight 11 Jul. 2014

AMBE that happened the same to me.. But i found the file it was called 'WOLF' but i couldn't open it up. :(

0
ambe 23 Apr. 2014

I downloaded the game, but all I got was a file full of random letter files?
what am I supposed to do!?

0
dee 23 Apr. 2014

suck i coudnt downlod it

0
candy 10 Apr. 2014

when i try to download it my computer keeps saying spyware alert and wont let me download it i was looking forward to play this game :,(

0
wolffeycat 04 Apr. 2014

geez ppl useing caps

1
Kogita 23 Mar. 2014

cool!

0
amyHofmans 10 Feb. 2014

I need some help. I downloaded the wolf game and I have 'Boxer' open...but when I drag the downloaded file folder into Boxer....the blue screen comes up and asks me to choose 'a' drive or 'b' drive.

I cant go any further.

0
lol 05 Feb. 2014

i tried to download it onto my laptop and it failed. im currently trying on my PC. hope it works :/

0
Toast 23 Jan. 2014

What I'm wondering is why it keeps downloading as a .zip file and won't let me download it as anything else.

I checked out the following link: http://www.myabandonware.com/howto/

... and after downloading every single program listed and trying to install "Wolf" each time after it was finished, it hasn't changed a thing. .-.

Just fix it. You guys are seriously starting to piss me off off, since I've tried to download several games through this site and none of them work.

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ghj 29 Nov. 2013

BUT I CAN' T PLAY IT! IT WRITTING '' DOCUMENTS C: LOCATED THE...''
''...FOLDES ROF$...''
I DOWNLOAD THE DOSBox AND IT DOESN" T WORK!!!

0
burd 07 Aug. 2013

if you have Windows XP then you must download DOSBox first.

0
Boop 31 Jul. 2013

It says I need to buy it? And if I click download it gives me extra unneeded files that may cause virus. Terrible.

1
katie 31 Jul. 2013

won't let me run it

0
theawesomestthing345 30 Jul. 2013

it took me 10 mins to download this game and it wont let me run it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

0
MR. PICKLEBURGER 22 Jul. 2013

......how long will this take....?

0
theawesomestthing345 17 Jul. 2013

i cant run it cuz i need a thing called winzip and it wont let me download it!!! D:

-1
dogdogagilityagility 07 Jul. 2013

soooooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

0
WolfinSheep'sclothing 06 Jul. 2013

It won't work for me. :l

0
lovethewebkinzlion 15 May. 2013

i don't know how to play it?!?!?!?! can someone pleaze help me?!

0
Виктор is sharing 200 coins! 19 Mar. 2013

hahaaahahaha :D

0
Wolflover2000 19 Jan. 2013

Love this game so much thank you for making it! :)

0
kristina_n_stancheva@abv.bg 08 Jan. 2013

iskam da q izteglq

0
Sindrake 25 Jan. 2012

I liked this game very much, the game-play is simple, but even the beginners scenarios are a bit tough, i will need to completely read the manual to figure out how in game play functions completely, but my son and i have a blast just pretending to be the wolf surviving

0
GRR 30 Nov. 2011

is a drug of donwload not install

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Downloads

DOS version
RIP Version
United Kingdom English
8 MB
ISO Version
United Kingdom English
354 MB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 8 KB English English

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