The Council

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

The Council is a choices matter, adventure and rpg game developed by Big Bad Wolf and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on March 13th 2018 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Italian.

It has received 5,200 reviews of which 4,359 were positive and 841 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Council into these genres:

Choices Matter Adventure RPG Story Rich Detective Mystery Puzzle Historical Singleplayer Episodic Atmospheric Choose Your Own Adventure Horror Multiple Endings Illuminati Conspiracy Third Person Violent Point & Click

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3-2125 (3.3 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB, GeForce GTX 750/Radeon R7 360
Storage: 15 GB available space
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR GAME ACTIVATION

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Absolutely loved this game. Should have played it long ago. Many choices and story plot twists. Many different choices and paths to take. Loved from start to finish. Great game. Highly recommend to anyone who loves story driven games with many choices and consequences and branches in the story and how it plays out. The game mechanics are also very unique in that i have never played a game with such mechanics. the game has mostly a detective type game play but also uses many different skills you must build up in order for the choices you make to be available to you. Also has other mechanics i have not seen in other games. truly a Gem of a game. I must say this game is not a combat type game but more choices consequences and story/detective type game. If you love these type games with an excellent story, this game is absolutely for you.

Oct. 2024

This was so good and I really hope the developers make more like it. I did not see where the plot was going to end up and it's just so gripping. I can often feel exasperated with some games that make you read everything and pick up everything to understand what's going on but I didn't feel like that with this game. I was genuinely invested in trying to find out what was going on and it didn't feel in any way tedious. Also a couple of the characters were actually terrifying without it being a horror and I think it added a lot to the suspense and urgency with which I played.

July 2024

This game is life-altering if you enjoy history, theology, or things that are AGGRESSIVELY FRENCH. I have never had a game ask me to think and draw on all sorts of experiences in my life. I kid you not, at one point I was unironically doing modular arithmetic and reading the bible. This game has an enormous amount of replayability. I play it at least once a year since I picked it up. This game truly accomplishes the "Choices Matter" meme that other studios promise but fail to provide. They also have ironed out a great RPG system that lends itself to tabletop roleplaying games as well. The game has some rough spots; The animations are rough in Episode 1 and get exponentially better as time goes on. Don't let the episodes bother you too much, the entire game all-together is quite good and well paced. But waiting months between games definitely didn't help at release. The voice acting is stuff sometimes Some things are still in french BUT I think these are part of the charm of the game and are worth looking past to enjoy an incredible experience.

May 2024

Game is too ambitious for its own good and should have been allowed to cook for at least another year of dev time. Choices matter throughout and are really well done in terms of being nuanced and action based (without explicitly laying out consequences). Much better than any telltale game regarding choices. Ep 4-5 are definitely on rails outside of its couple of decisions you get to make. Historical intrigue is rather well done and leaves a bunch of things to research after playing the game. Story/lore does not make much sense and feels like it was made up on the fly, which makes it funny at the very least. Acting is piss poor and game is buggier than an Ant farm. Ambition with some errors is always better than playing it too safe in my books. Worth playing forsure. 7.8/10

April 2024

An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed? ㅡ Axel Oxenstierna 세상은 우리가 상상하는 것보다 훨씬 적은 지혜로 다스려진다.

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Free to play

8.1

4,359

841

Online players

Developer

Big Bad Wolf

Publisher

Focus Entertainment

Release 13 Mar 2018

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