Review: This War of Mine

War. How often we are virtually in it? It seems that thanks to the video, everyone can go through all existing and non -existing wars. In the skin of a brave soldier, we dealt with hundreds and thousands “Bad Gaise“And, of course, saved the planet from the evil plans of evil dictators. Fanfares play, pathos speech of the protagonist about the most important thing, curtain. The war is over. We are destroyed by the destroyed cities and thousands of corpses. But who cares? We defeated the evil guys and shot from the heart. Now you can wait for a sequel.

This War of Mine also a game about the war. But the war in this game is presented in a completely different angle and draws a completely different picture.

There is a war. Instead of the brave military, we lead a small group of surviving civilians who are trying to survive in the destroyed city under the whistle of bullets and cannonades from shells. They are not trained to fight, no one expected that everything would become so bad and everything would fly to hell. Absolutely unexplored citizens left to the mercy of fate. Your task is to help them survive.

The game logo.
This is my city.

Gameplay This War of Mine Separated at two time of https://slotsnogamstop.co.uk/review/golden-genie/ day – day and night. In the afternoon, we equip our refuge, put the destroyed house in order, build a stove, beds, food for cooking and other units for survival from improvised means. At night, one of our survivors comes out in search of the necessary materials, drugs and, of course, food. How to extract these resources is to decide. In the destroyed city, not only we are trying to survive. There are peaceful people who are ready to change provision with you, there are people who are simply trying to survive and protect themselves from you by improvised means, there are bandits with separatists with whom any conversation is useless. Notice you and immediately a bullet in the forehead. During the Civil War, everyone survives as they can.

I tried to survive peacefully to the last, but on the 8th day, when one of my characters was seriously wounded during a night raid on the shelter, I had to survive in the most inhuman way. The murder of peaceful old people and the subsequent looting of their housing, which has become a grave for them. In the afternoon I came home with the necessary medicines and food, which allowed me to save one of my heroes from death.

The other fell into the deepest depression for several days due to the murder of peaceful old people. Only liters of alcohol and friend’s shoulder were able to save him from pain and heavy emotional cargo.

Who will go for resources and where to decide.
Emotional scenes and complex moral dilemmas are scattered throughout the game. People need help from you and sometimes you are the only hope of salvation. Whether you return to the starving homeless person to give him a little food? Will you help your son save your father from illness? By the way, they have a lot of necessary resources. It can be easier to get rid of them and steal all food and weapons? Sometimes help is given, and sometimes causes more harm. Help or not help you decide. The choice you make will be displayed on your characters. Your hero may simply “break” from hunger, fatigue or depression. And it will only be more difficult to survive.

For survival, we need food, medicines, materials, as well as tools and weapons. Weapons are necessary for self -defense. At night, people are attacked by people who, just like you are trying to survive. They can steal food, medicine. They can shoot back in response, but they can run away in fear, without taking anything. It is not easy to survive on this War of Mine, but what else can I expect from war? We play for ordinary people, we can die from hunger or from an enemy bullet. Or just freeze like a dog abandoned to the mercy.

Home Sweet Home.
This is my death.

This War of Mine throws all hints on fun immediately, forcing us to plunge into the gray and cold realities of the war. This is excellent “Expirance”. Dark and heavy. Restrained and sad music, oppressing the gloomy artistic style of the game, carelessly drawn with a pencil on old paper. The right mood is created already in the main menu by the inscription “Fuck the War”. Our world does not need zombies, aliens or other phenomena from fantastic films so that everything turns into a nightmare.
Developers from 11 Bit Studios reminding what indie games are for. Without even having a huge budget, a complex plot or “Hollywood” directing, the game can convey the deepest emotions. And show the real horrors from which trembling comes.

Walked 19 of my war. Katya died of blood loss, Boris was shot by the military, Bruno in deep despair cannot move. This is the end of my story.