This War Of Mine is an emotional, intense, and challengeing experience as you observe and control the actions of various surviving civilians in the center of a war torn city. I've played a few hours of this game, but decided that I would share my most recent experience, in which I ended up dying trying to save a young girl from getting ♥♥♥♥♥...:

It was the third day of this living hell. I was staying with an old highschool friend who I just happened to run into after the city went to ♥♥♥♥. After scavanging an old abandoned house the first two days and gathering gathering us enough food for the next few nights, I decided to head to the supermarket under the cover of dark. I creeped in through the entrance and heard the faint sound of shifting rubble behind a closed door. I slowly approached the door, being very careful not to make much noice. As I got down on one knee and peeked through the keyhole, my heart jumped. Not two feet ahead was a large, military-clad man weilding an ak-47 assault rifle. In front of him a young girl was sifting through some rubble, and mumbling about food.

"What is that you're looking for, sweetheart?" the man asked.

"Please... food. I need food"

"Hey, I've got food. All the food you need. Maybe I can trade you some for a favor?"

"I... I... don't think so"

"We can dine together, then have some fun"

"I... better be going home now"

As she begins to walk away, he runs up behind her yelling "get back here ♥♥♥♥♥!" and smacks her across the face with the butt of his rifle, knocking her to the ground.

"Get up now! Or I will shoot you!"

Wimpering, she crawls to her feet and he escorts her out the back of the supermarket with the rifle in her back. After making sure the coast was clear, I carefully opened the door, and proceeded to loot the main store isle for any food and supplies I could find. After filling my backpack to its full capacity, I began my walk back towards the entrance when I heard loud crying coming from the back of the store. Being a curious fellow, I decided to investigate. Outside the back of the store, there is a small shed with a large sheet metal door. I press my ears up to the large door, and I can hear lots of shuffling and crying. My heart sinks as I realize what's happening. This poor girl is about to get ♥♥♥♥♥.

I had to make a decision at this point. Do I leave with my supplies and live another day, or do I attempt to liberate this young woman? Without skipping a beat, I drew my crowbar and began prying open the sheet metal door. Finally, after what felt like forever, the door gave way and I finally saw what was unfolding.

Making eye contact with me, the girl screams "Please! Help me!"

To which the man immediatly turns and sprays my chest full of lead.

As I lie dying, gasping my final breaths, I see the girl climb up onto some broken carts and jump over the fence. She had escaped. As I fade into darkness, I smile: knowing that that girl will go on to live another day.

A Screenshot Of My Final Moments

Emotional, Exciting, Realistic, Horrific. 10/10

This War of Mine has an interesting take on survival games by putting the player not against zombies, or the wilderniss, but against human nature. You begin with three survivors in a city under siege during a civil war, supplies are running low and they just arrived at an abandonned building. This will be their holdout for the war.

You will then manage their daily lives, making workbenches, chairs, beds, and everything else they need to get through the war. Of course, with supplies low, you need to prioritise. Do you really need a second bed? Maybe that material can best be spend on something else..

At night, you go out to scavenge supplies. You bring one (Only one per night) of your survivors to a location that you hope has supplies you can use. Once there, you can encounter many things. It could be an abandonned building with nothing there. There could be a friendly (But well armed) trader, there could be civilians like you just trying to survive, or you could be shot on sight by the locals. Or there can be any other event... Or nothing. There is plenty of variation to be had.

Personally, I went to a church, unarmed, as I had nothing yet. The priest told me about how the place was robbed, and asked me not to disturb the refugees under the church. So I went on to the ruined building behind the church. Scavenging up supplies, when I notice there's sound outside the door. It's just standing there, so I creep to the door and look through the keyhole. Just then, a man with a pistol turned around and made for the door. I looked for a place to run and hide and set off, just as he opened the door.

"Oh, Hello there. Don't worry, I'm just looking around"

He seemed pretty friendly. So I just went on my way to pick out some more nails and wood for my own business. It went alright this time. But plenty of people are less friendly than this guy.

Combat, which you will at some point get into, is not explained in any way. So you will likely have to take a bit to learn about it, and stock up on bandages as you do so. At the same time, the stealth system is not explained, but easy enough to understand.

With all this, you are tasked with making your group survive the war. Or at least as long as you can. It can be easy, challenging, or at times nearly impossible. But that's war, and neither the government nor the rebel forces will help you there - You're not their problem.
And once you've gone through the game, you can ask yourself if you really did win. Did you end up stealing from old people to let them starve? Did you rob a priest for fuel? Shanked a doctor for a bandage? You can ask yourself what winning really means in war. And if just surviving is all you should try to do.

In the beginning there were 3. Pavle, the ex-footballer. Katia, the journalist. And Bruno, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ professional chef. They came together during the siege purely by chance, and used their collective skills to improve their survival chances. Over the next 2 weeks they struggled to stay fed. Always low on supplies, and usually having one or more go hungry each day. Then Marko arrived, seeking shelter. The survivors knew they would struggle to support a 4th person, but welcomed him anyways. Marko then proved his worth after bringing home more food and medicine in one night than Pavle had managed in a week. Then he managed to bring home enough supplies to build some more furniture, and a radio. He helped the group not only survive, but flourish. He even at one point rescued a girl under the assault of a drunken soldier, earning him the status of "hero" amongst the people of Pogoren. Then one night he went scavenging in a dangerous area, known to be inhabited by brutal bandits. He had done this many times before, and felt safe enough to travel indoors. While searching through a cabinet, he was spotted. While he managed to kill 2 of the bandits, the remaineder proved to be too much for him. The group was devastated by his death. They never really recovered. A little over 2 weeks later, the siege had been lifted. The group had survived, and all went back to try to pick up where they left off before the war.


Except for one. Whose body silently lies in a shallow, unmarked grave.


RIP Marko. You will be missed.



dis game 11/10 i cri evry tiem

Emotional rollercoaster
Helped people in need. (Felt good)
Then kill priest and robbed a church.(Felt bad)
Then robbed old couple.(Felt Worst)
Then I found a gun.(Now i feel good doing bad things)

I almost cried after I had my character kill an elderly couple with a hatchet for a bottle of pills and some scraps of meat.

Its a different perspective than every other war game, rather than being a soldier like in CoD, or being that one guy that murders everyone laughing maniacally like in Fallout, you actually feel the feels of a person struggling to survive in a sieged city. If you have a phobia of killing innocent people, its not the game for you. Like I said before, I almost cried at least 5 times in the course of one playthrough.

I r8 8/8 m8, gr8 game.

This game is so heart-wrenchingly surreal that it gets my physical heart to beat at key moments. Here's a little taste:

Day 17. I'm desperately low on food and the survivors are starving. I decide to raid a nearby house in the hopes of stockpiling food. Uponarriving, I find the jouse inhabited by two brothers and their elder parents. I sneak in through the back unnoticed. One of the brothers is about to walk through the door so I ascend to the second. Through the keyhole, I see an old woman come down from the attic and approach the door. I ready my knife and pray that she doesn't come any closer to the door. I don't want to kill her. She stops, idles for a moment in self pity, and then turns back around and enters a different room. I enter and scavenge for supplies when the same brother enters, causing me to hide. He finds the place suspicious and approaches my hiding place. I panic and lunge at him from hiding. He dies noisily, and his brother hears. He runs to apprehend me, but he is unarmed. I dispatch him quickly. The old mother hears and comes down. She sees one of her dead sons and weeps above him. I pause before her as I realize what I've done to them. She cries as she says their names. In one final act of pity, I kill her where she kneels. I loot the rest of the house and escape to my shelter, food in tow. The father, out of earshot to it all and asleep, I've left to awaken to the massacre.

This game touches me so deeply that these actions of mine caused me to ask myself, "what if this was a choice that I couldn't just hit the resatrt button to?" Then I realized: that question is the game.

so this was my first try...

day 1 its bruno. davle. marko preparing for the horrors of the aftermath of war

day 3. marko went scavenging but got home too late...he was bruised and depressed and tired.

day 4. davle dies while stealing from a man and woman the man kills him with no hesitation

day 5. we meet a man named boris he is a good lifter so he does the scavenging meanwhile marko has lost his mind...

day 6. boris goes back to the house of the man and woman...and kills them...he still hears their screams for forgivness...marko is broken...he wont sleep...wont even move

day 7. some children come wanting medicine we give them some and it make bruno happier but marko is still broken
and we now lack some medicine but i dont think we will need it

day 9. boris goes and helps a family board up their house and garage. meanwhile bruno is left to scavenge and marko guards the shelter with whatever sanity he has left

day 10. boris and bruno returns but the place was raided we lost some things and marko is in his deathbed he has lost all hope for the world

day 12. only one can of food left....we are all starving and these kids show up again asking for food...what do we do....

day 14. marko's wounds were too much...he passed away last night...bruno is fine but boris has started losing himself
but then this woman shows up...named zleta.

day 19. havnt logged for a while because we were too busy trying to search for food and meds...zleta is helping boris feel better and bruno is running out of cigarretes...

day 21. this couple want help with their house being boarded up...its so cold...we can help them and we are all injured, sick and hungry....

day 24. .......bruno......the cold got to him.....he died in his sleep....sometimes i wonder if that even is the best way to die....

day 26. ...boris has gone insane....zleta is bleeding badly and she is trying to help boris but its no use....is this the end?...i wish i didnt give those children the last of our medicine

day 28. the cold........oh god the cold....not even the heater is warming us up....boris he.....he might die he is sick. lethally injured and insane...at least we have some food.

day 29. zleta passed away overnight...her wounds were too much...boris is....well...

day....30...... boris....he couldnt take it anymore....he couldnt sleep....he couldnt eat....he was bleeding out and he was sick...and the only thing he could think about it his dead friends and family........he hung himself today......


10/10

我本来觉得那些在战争中杀害无辜的人太可恶，可没想到自己也成了那个可恶的人。
看到老人瘫倒在儿子尸体前泣不成声，他哭喊着对着儿子说的那些话更是让人心碎。
所以现在，我在努力通过完全不杀不偷来赢得游戏。
I uesed to think those who killed innocent civilians are monsters, but how could I realize, that one day I became one of them.
Watching the old father collapsed in front of his dead son, the words he was crying really made me regret deeply.
So now, I am working on winning the game without any killing or stealing.

I'm not that hardcore of a gamer, but This War of Mine (TWoM) managed to make me glued to my seat in front of my laptop for hours. Everytime I played this I discover something new (how to clean out Military Outpost, how to safely pass Sniper Junction, how to kill the bandits in St. Mary's Church, etc.). And on top of that, this is the only game that managed to give me something to think about: war is hell and I should be grateful for all of my comforts in life. After playing this game I even felt guilty having leftover food on my plate. Consider that as message delivered.

Bottomline, this game is BRILLIANT and I would recommend it to everyone I know. Really really worth the money. 5 stars!

P.S. to the developers: I hope more content is added to this game in the future. Maybe more safehouses? More places to scavenge? New characters with new strengths and weakneses? New items? Marathon mode?

Bruno,
I miss you already. You are a good cook, but cant absorb shotgun shells. You tried.
Mike

A piece of art. Incomparable to any other game/expirience I've had. This game will continuously test your determination to succeed and survive.

I broke into elderly's home.
I stole their weed.

Day 3: Pavle tries to ♥♥♥♥ a woman... Pavle gets beating to death by her husband...

-RESTART-

Day 8: Pavle tries to help a woman about to get ♥♥♥♥♥ by a soldier... Pavle gets shot in the face...

-RESTART-

...... 10/10

**SPOILERS**

I went into an apartment complex to loot some stuff, not knowing yet what that meant. It was my first playthrough, and I thought "stealing" stuff was maybe like it was in Fallout or Skyrim. If someone sees me do it, they get hostile, and I kill them. Shouldn't be a big deal.

I was skulking around when I was spotted by a guy who yelled at me to get out. He had a gun, so I thought he was a bad guy. I blew him away with my shotgun. I started to loot his corpse when when voices started shouting upstairs. I quickly hid and waited for the ambush, but what came around the corner weren't more armed guards. No, it was much worse. It was his parents.

They were wailing about their lost son and how they couldn't survive without him. I couldn't speak to them. I wanted so badly to tell them that they could come back to our place, that I had killed him accidentally, something, anything. I walked out without taking what little they had left, in fact leaving my shotgun and rounds in their refrigerator to help them, hoping that maybe I didn't doom them entirely, but what was the point of survival for them anymore? Why would they want to survive in a world without their son who laid his life on the line for their safety?

I never went back there. I was probably as affected as Marko was. He was depressed. I had to atone. I ran to the City Hospital to donate as much of our medical supplies as we could spare. I risked my life to free prisoners held by armed thugs. Night after night, in my attempt to atone, I tried to do as much good as I possibly could manage, if only to mitigate the incredible horror I had performed. We all survived, and I never went back to their apartment. I couldn't face them again. I don't know if they made it or not.

Man, I'm a terrible person.

granny's house has plenty of food. very realistic. 10/10

Absolutely amazing game.

I purchased this game on a whim, and I don't regret it at all. Very fair price for a game which is very unique. If you are a fan of post apocalypse games then this is one for you. It will take a few play fews to get the hang of it as you are thrown in the deep end with no guide on how to play the game though.

This game brings you into a city caught in the middle of civil war, you get to witness events from the soldiers and rebels - some bad, some good and some you have to watch and can't do anything about. Every time you send one of your characters out to savange you are constantly worrying about what to pick up and what you need the most, every scavange matters!

I normally don't enjoy games which tend to avoid combat, however "This War of Mine" has pulled it off in such an amazing way. The world really does pull you in, I love the encounters with the rebels or soldiers.

Some key points:
- Each play through is different, maps do change!
- A decent amount of events.
- Real sense of a post-apoc world.
- Loads of crafting! (Weapons, ammo, armour, household objects, medical supplies, food)
- Can't let your people die via starvation, health... they can even commit suicide if they become depressed (gain by killing innocent people, your people have decent morals).

Real fun game, still playing it now. Thought id take the time to write a decent review for it as I haven't been pulled into a game this much for a long time.

What a change from regular "war" games.

Famine, depression and helplessness. The idea is to get your survivors to live until the end of the war (a randomly generated number of days) in a random environment.

(The Sims + stealth + crafting) x The Road

It's bleak and depressing... and relentlessly engaging. A masterpiece of the point and click.

8/10

This War Of Mine is a harsh, unforgiving and absolutely delightful game.

You begin with a small group of ordinary people, each having their own skills and weaknesses and try to survive through a civil war that has left you with barely no resources. At it's core, the concept of the game is quite simple (yet innovative for all I know): during the day, you must make the best of what you have to organize your shelter in order to tend to the needs of your group while at night, you go scavenging for the resources you are in dire need of.

Where all this really takes off, is how the game mechanics have been fine tuned so that each and every day, the stakes are to the max. As it is the case for any realistic survival situation, every bits of food and material is vital and must be carefully managed, every step you make while scavenging can be deadly and have irreversible consequences - this is a rogue-like game: you cannot save and everything you do generally have irreversible consequences.

For instance: you must have water to cook food (per the game's mechanics, raw food is less nourishing) and given a group of four people, you hence might need a certain amount of water to feed them well. Let's say one day you forget to tend to your water collector, the raw food you have might then not be sufficient to nourish everyone in your group. Being malnourished, someone might get sick so that, on your scavenging night, instead of simply having to find a little amount of food, you now must find water, lots of food and some meds. Meds are usually rare and chances are you'll have to sneak your way in some dangerous place to find some (and perhaps even kill someone if you get caught stealing), all this because you forgot to tend to your water collector!

Add to this mix a bunch of unexpected, random events such as kids begging for meds at your shelter, a friendly neighbor offering you a batch of vegetables, your well crafted survival plans can easily go south in the blinking of an eye. This is, in my opinion, what makes this game so addictive, intense, frustrating and yet deeply enjoyable.

On the technical side, there are very few bugs. The graphics are a perfect fit to the game's spirit; the environments are diverse and not repetitive and while the music themes can be a bit repetitive they do create a very good atmosphere.

In all, if you like survival games for the sense of vulnerability and intensity they provide, if you appreciate rogue-like games such as FTL, you will definitively love This War Of Mine.

This War Of Mine is an artistic and entertaining experience that most will never forget. The decisions made can have a large effect on the way you view yourself sometimes. I looked at myself in the mirrior and said "did I really have to do that". The perspective is a much more entertaining experience than todays military shooters. You are a survivor in a besieged city in a war torn country. You improve your house by day and scavenge by night. The artistic graphics give the game the right mood for a great experience. I would recommend this game to all gamers who love the survival and story genres.

A short explination is it's a survival game like State of Decay, but instead of zombies it is about the grim reality of the civilian experience during war. The game really hits you in the feels with any decision you make. It was difficult to send away people asking for aid, which is normally a very mechanical and mathematical response from me. The characters internalize the bad, and the struggles are difficult to watch and interact. I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Great game. I was deeply invested and the end felt very rewarding. 8-10h for full playthrough with lots of replay value.