If you set This War of Mine’s theme aside, you'd have a tough and demanding survival and resource-management game – but it never lets you forget that it's about a serious and sad subject. It's full of thorny problems, and that just makes your small gains all the sweeter. As things begin to go wrong, the choices get harder.
But ultimately I've invested so much time in this game that my few niggles are also rendered mute. 11-bit Studios has created an exploration of the desperateness of wartime human experience and made it into something you can't help but find compelling. The addition of children into the original mix is a way of enhancing that, making the reality all the more visceral.
This War of Mine successfully blends exploration, stealth, crafting and survivor management in a bleak setting. As most games in the genre however, the gameplay becomes mundane after you've established a winning...
If you're familiar with 11 Bit Studios, you know that they're the people behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth- a tower offense game where you fend off an alien invasion through the usual means. Guns, soldiers, explosions- a military strategy that seems to say...
If you set This War of Mine’s theme aside, you'd have a tough and demanding survival and resource-management game – but it never lets you forget that it's about a serious and sad subject. It's full of thorny problems, and that just makes your small gains all the sweeter. As things begin to go wrong, the choices get harder.
Downstairs, Pavle lies crumpled on the concrete floor, doubled over in agony at a wound we don't have the bandages to dress, and crippled by a four day hunger that a single can of food could barely touch.In the sitting room, sunk into a makeshift sofa...
The reality of war, hammered home through stark visuals and tight resource management, in a game where just surviving another day is winning.This War Of Mine was reviewed by Darryn Bonthuys on a...
If you set This War of Mine's theme aside, you'd have a tough and demanding survival and resource-management game – but it never lets you forget that it's about a serious and sad subject. It's full of thorny problems, and that just makes your small gains...
This War of Mine is an eye-opening experience that offers a refreshing, albeit bleak take on war. It's so easy to glorify war these days that you forget about those who are really impacted by it -- This War of Mine is a much-needed reminder of...
“Day 10: It's been a harsh winter and we've continued to weather out the cold inside our shelter. Marin's illness is getting worse as the days pass without any medicine in our cupboards. We've barely maintained our hunger from scraps of raw meat. Bruno...
The GoodGreat settingAddictive gameplay aside from combatEmotionally resonant – it'll give you something to think aboutThe BadPoor character development and interactionToo ‘video-game-y' for the narrative to really hit homeYou own this Total You want...
An hour into This War of Mine, I keep thinking about that bit in The Last of Us where someone was somehow clear-headed enough in the middle of a war zone to scrawl "What happens when the food runs out?" on a concrete wall on a backed-up highway. It's a...
There is a very narrow direction when designing a game based off of wars. It seems first and third person shooters are the go to options for pretty much every developer and publisher out there, saturating the backdrop with countless entries of the same...