Best Friends for Dinner

Best Friends for Dinner begins with what would appear to be a boring encounter: Oz, a wolf in search of a meal, encounters Donna, a sheep lost in the woods. But instead of running for her life or begging for her life, Donna nonchalantly strikes up a conversation with her predator. The encounter soon becomes an unlikely friendship with thoughts and opinions that will often surprise the player.

Exploring the story of Best Friends for Dinner

In Best Friends for Dinner, Oz is not your typical wolf. He has never actually hunted sheep, subsisting instead on fish and deer found along the riverbank. This makes him a target for the other wolves in his pack, who bully him, label him as weak, and even go so far as to push him into the river.

Donna quickly senses that Oz is struggling. She listens and even seeks a way to help her new friend cope with the bullies. But Donna devises a pretty radical solution: poison all the pack's water with Monkshood (wolfsbane).

A fellow crazy idea buddy

Best Friends for Dinner is interesting because of the difference between the 2 characters.

• Oz: A gentle wolf, lacking in hunting experience, who constantly feels like an outsider within his own pack.
• Donna: A friendly, soft-spoken sheep who harbors highly unconventional views regarding her own kind and the nature of life itself.
• The Relationship: The two grow increasingly close, sharing intimate, difficult truths and promising to always support one another.

As their conversations unfold, it becomes clear to the player that Donna feels no fear toward Oz—even though he is, by nature, a wolf. She is even willing to bring other sheep as food for her new friend. Donna’s guilelessness creates situations that are as humorous as they are unsettling.

How to play Best Friends for Dinner

Best Friends for Dinner focuses on an interactive storytelling experience rather than complex action-based challenges. The choices that are made shock the players at the plot twists, characters show their personalities, and players speak to one another.

That's what is interesting in the game, concrete words, and reactions of Oz and Donna. But all that cuteness is cloaked in dark humor, bizarre situations, and a strangely predatory take on a buddy comedy.

If you're looking for a hardcore survival experience, check out Nuclear Day and see how you fare in a post-nuclear world!