Open now · By request
The Great Wife's Guide playtest
by Three-Headed Dog
Play as Dolores, a 1950s housewife pushed to her breaking point by a toxic marriage and the pressure of a perfect suburban life. Set up sabotage in short, focused point-and-click puzzle levels, explore retro cartoon dollhouse rooms, and uncover the secrets hidden behind the perfect home.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Three-Headed Dog
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, French, German, Japanese and 5 more
How to join the The Great Wife's Guide playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the The Great Wife's Guide playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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About The Great Wife's Guide
A spotless kitchen, freshly pressed shirts, smiling children, and cherry pie cooling on the counter — all just in time for her darling husband’s return, of course. Dolores’s world was built like a dollhouse, until the mask of the perfect wife began to crack…
Plan the perfect little mishaps for your lousy husband and polish every detail to perfection. Will it be a tiny “oops” with his precious car, or a dazzling disco ball disaster at his favorite bar? A real housewife knows how to make every accident look perfectly innocent.
Narrative choices add chaos and unpredictability by affecting Dolores’s state. The higher her rage level rises, the more new possibilities and unexpected reactions open up in the game — and the more dangerous the path of the story becomes.
Each party takes Dolores to a new corner of 1950s America: a cozy living room ready for guests, a neon-lit diner with milkshakes on the counter, or the wedding of those “ever-smiling” neighbors. Each location is filled with unique objects and fresh ways to turn a picture-perfect scene into a carefully planned disaster.
The further the story goes, the clearer it becomes: the perfect housewife is only one of the roles Dolores can play.
From the game's Steam page.
