Various outcomes will raise your different status levels. All of which, you’ll find, are the only things in abundant supply. But instead of building the dream home they’ve always wanted, success in TWOM equates to avoiding starvation, illness, injury, or despair. If it’s not yet clear, This War of Mine is a bleak affair that earns every second of its 18-years-and-up maturity rating.īased on a video game of the same name, play passes a bit like The Sims, where the characters you control have constant and shifting needs you must address in order to advance. When night falls, you’ll send scavengers out to scrape up a meager handful of the supplies you need to survive the next day. Until then, you’ll spend your days crafting makeshift appliances, setting rat traps so there’s protein in your pantry, and combating the cold by burning wood that could have been a bed, or books that could have taken your mind off the misery. The game puts you in the shoes of some of these non-soldiers, as you pass the time holed up in a collapsing squat, waiting for a ceasefire. But as Galakta Games’ This War of Mine and its video game predecessor remind us, Not everyone in war is a soldier. On tabletops and flat screens, gamers have fought a lot of wars.
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