StrategyFit check
Is Waiting For The Raven worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy espionage stories with morally flexible choices
- Strategy fans who want to manage agents and an underworld network
- Players who prefer mystery games combining investigation with character manipulation
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a narrowly focused action game rather than a hybrid of management, investigation, and intrigue
- Players who prefer straightforward objectives over shifting alliances, betrayal, and many possible approaches
- Players looking for a conventional military strategy campaign
Our take on Waiting For The Raven
Its defining structure is the combination of first-person scenes and top-down underworld management, with letters, alliances, and covert actions connecting the two perspectives.
What is Waiting For The Raven?
Take control of an underworld network by placing contacts, associates, and agents across a city.
The game combines first-person scenes with a top-down view as players choose alliances, betrayals, and methods for dealing with opponents. Activities include interpreting secret correspondence, solving puzzles, investigating mysteries, managing businesses, bribing, abducting, seducing, spying, and using violence or the law. Characters communicate through voiced letters, while choices shape how the protagonist is regarded. Survival involves keeping enemies under control, confusing the constabulary, and managing subordinates. Possible roles include an underworld boss, cult leader, businessman, or hidden spymaster.
How Waiting For The Raven plays
- 01Dual-view espionage
- Play across first-person and top-down perspectives while directing an underworld network.
- 02Voiced correspondence
- Character relationships and negotiations unfold through letters with full voice acting.
- 03Multiple power paths
- Use bribery, abduction, seduction, murder, influence, schemes, or legal pressure to handle rivals.
- 04Citywide agent network
- Place contacts and operatives throughout the city while gradually expanding control.
- 05Mystery investigations
- Decode confidential messages, complete puzzles, and uncover hidden mysteries.
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Waiting For The Raven: platforms & release
Is Waiting For The Raven worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy espionage stories with morally flexible choices. Skip it if: players seeking a narrowly focused action game rather than a hybrid of management, investigation, and intrigue.
Where can I download Waiting For The Raven?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Waiting For The Raven's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Waiting For The Raven on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
