It gives you time to think and reflect on the horror of the world around you. It is slow and methodical, emulating how time drags when you have to perform a hateful task. I must ignore their exhaustion and set them to work, performing various tasks to make their shelter habitable. During the day, it provides protection from the conflict raging outside, while at night it serves as an operations base for foraging runs into the world.Īs my first day begins, a short description explains that Pavle is injured, Bruno is sick, and all three men are tired of the war. This is to be their home, their only refuge from the war.

My team is made up of three good men – Marco, Pavle, and Bruno – who are taking refuge in a bombed out house, that is filled with rubble and has been emptied of all comforts by looters. There is very little to find wrong with this game: combat is not a star feature of this survival game, nor does it feel like it should be, and the lackluster story is more than made up for by the fact that its minimal narrative puts all the power of decision-making into your own, often incompetent, hands.Every game starts by placing you in control of a random group of survivors. This is an experience that requires a certain state of mind – that is, mindfulness of a slow start, openness to a bit of self-reliance, and willingness to be immersed in something depressing and thought-provoking all at once. Do you protect everyone in your shelter to your utmost or do you sacrifice some of them for the good of others in order to endure? Presented in a manner not unlike the jaded lens of Papers, Please, This War of Mine hits you with a series of life-and-death decisions driven by your own conscience. Where Spec Ops: The Line made me question being The Good Guy, this game made me question just how far off the reservation I was willing to go to preserve life. In our 9/10 review of This War of Mine, we said:

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