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In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
This War of Mine is a survival, war and atmospheric game
developed and published by 11 bit studios.
Released on November 14th 2014 is available on Windows, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 101,740 reviews of which 94,484 were positive and 7,256 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 18.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.04€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
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- OS: Ubuntu 16.04
- Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0
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I LOVE THIS GAME / I LOVE 11BIT STUDIOS / YOU NEED TO BUY ALL EXPANSIONS AND PLAY THIS Full Explanation: This War Of Mine is loosely inspired from the siege of Sarajevo, a brutal battle that claimed the lives of thousands with children even being deliberately targeted by sniper fire many times during this conflict. With the siege of Sarajevo as a loose inspiration, This War Of Mine hammers home the reality that, in war, no matter which side is 'right' it's the innocent caught in between the suffer. The game plays as a 2-D click-to-play base-building/survival game where you make pivotal decisions every single day of your survival, and with every resource that's allocated. Every choice in this game matters, both morality wise and with how you spend every resource to create appliances (furnace for food/furniture for sleeping, etc) or board up walls from bandits, or spend more resources to create a knife or gun. At night, you have the option the travel to different locations as one survivor to search for more supplies. Anything can happen and some of these locations are randomized. Each survivor has different traits so choose wisely which one you send out to scavenge vs which one protects the base, for example. If you are shot, you will be wounded, if lucky. If you are killed, that character is gone forever. The game is as unforgiving as life is during a siege. A diary is kept at all times tracking your moral choices throughout the game and how your characters feel about these decisions. Some won't be as affected while others may try to commit suicide if you kill an innocent person for food. A radio can be built to determine the weather and stay in touch with what's going on around the base. All this included, essentially, the game makes you feel like you are truly surviving a very real-apocalypse in a fictional city of Pogoren and if you've played this more than once, it's addictive. CONS: This game's combat, if played right, is essentially: hide in the shadows + wait + stealth kill. Any other approach is just guaranteeing your player to die. No matter what guns you have or body armor you probably won't use them since the risk is too high. I've used all guns but the only time I had success (killed 3 guards!) was with the shotgun at close range, with full-body armor in a hallway. This game is best played as a slow-burn where you use guns to defend your base and stealthily acquire resources and make tough decisions to keep your characters alive, fighting for the day a ceasefire lands. I can't wait for 2027-2028 (they are re-imagining this game in UnrealEngine. There is a huge community behind this, but sadly, not as big as it should be. There needs to be more mods and independent stories available) Definitely buy this game, it's a cult-classic fun to play game that donates a large portion to help out survivors of war. **I myself am a human-trafficking survivor. :) Thanks for reading this far. I love to play as Roman and Katia or Pavle. I wanted to write the creator and ask if he could put a human-trafficking survivor in the next This War of Mine. My friend Madison was a human-trafficking survivor but she got murdered. I would love to immortalize her somehow, or myself as a character. Just a fun thought I always had** Have fun!
In this day and age, this game is a must. A welcome and gentler reminder, for those of us fortunate enough not to experience war first hand, about what war really entails for most of those who get embroiled in it. You get to witness people starving to death, girls being rounded up by shady military personnel for unspeakable ends, kids running from snipers to ensure their grandma can receive the medicine she needs to survive, even though she might die the next morning. Bleak, sure... but you also witness kindness and charity, and despite the struggle, you can feel hope. This is not a game to play mindlessly. You must let yourself get involved in the story - you must forget this is a game at all. It is a window into a reality most of us won't have (hopefully) to experience in real life. I've completed only single run successfully in this game, but every run I've lost reminded me of what real people, in real life, are experiencing around the world right now. And it touches your soul. It makes you feel for them... it makes you a better human. Even as the one I succeeded in came to its conclusion, I felt happiness and sadness, because as I came back to reality, I thought how this is the story of so many people around the world - how so many have suffered the same way, struggled the same way, and in the end, felt the same way when thinking about their neighbors, friends, and work colleagues who sadly didn`t make it through. Couldn't recommend this game enough. It deserves all the awards it has gotten and some more. "Through your arrogance and stupidity, you've opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of war!" - Odin Allfather.
I didn’t pick up This War of Mine because I was looking for a good time. It was cheap, it had a reputation, and I had a feeling it might be something… different. Something heavier. Still, I wasn’t prepared for how uncomfortable it would make me. Not loud, not shocking. Just this slow, constant pressure that builds the longer you play. And again, the strange part is… I respect the hell out of it. This game doesn’t put you in the role of a hero. There’s no glory here, no big moments where you feel powerful. You’re not fighting a war. You’re stuck in one. Just trying to get through the next day. You manage a group of civilians hiding in a broken shelter. During the day, you patch things up, cook, rest, try to keep people from falling apart. At night, you go out scavenging in a city that’s just as desperate as you are. And that’s where it starts to hit. Because the game doesn’t just ask: can you survive? It asks: what are you willing to do to survive? You find yourself in situations where nothing feels right. You need food. You find someone weaker than you who has some. You need medicine. Someone else needs it too. And the game doesn’t step in and say what’s “good” or “bad.” It just lets you decide… and then shows you what that decision does to your people. Not in some dramatic, over-the-top way. Just small things. They get sad. They get quiet. They sit there, smoking, not saying anything. And somehow that’s worse. There’s no real sense of control here either. You can make good decisions, plan carefully, do everything right… and things can still go to hell. Someone gets sick. Someone gets hurt. Supplies don’t last. Winter comes. You’re not building something stable. You’re holding things together with whatever you can find. Barely. What surprised me most is how personal it started to feel. These aren’t just “units” or “characters.” You start paying attention to them. You notice who’s tired, who’s breaking, who’s still holding it together. And when something goes wrong, it doesn’t feel like you failed a system. It feels like you let someone down. That’s a weird thing to get from a game. It’s not fun. Not in the usual sense. Sometimes it’s frustrating. Sometimes it feels unfair. Sometimes you just sit there staring at the screen, wondering if you really want to make the next decision. And yet… it’s incredibly well made. There’s no excess here. No pointless mechanics, no distractions. Everything serves the same purpose: to put you in that situation and let you deal with it. No safety net. No power fantasy. No clean ending where everything feels resolved. Just people trying to get through something awful. I understand why this game gets so much praise. And I also understand why some people bounce off it immediately. This isn’t something you play to relax. It’s something you experience… if you’re willing to sit with it. For me, it’s a bit like The Long Dark, but sharper in a different way. That game asks if you can survive nature. This one asks what kind of person you are when survival starts to cost something. And that question stays with you longer than you’d expect. I don’t “enjoy” this game in the traditional sense. But I respect it. A lot. And I’ll probably go back to it… even if part of me really doesn’t want to.
This game is amazing, but be warned: Its also quite depressing. I had to stop play it cause it just made me miserable; still, its a good lesson for people of countries such as mine, that has been spared the suffering of war. If a game makes you this miserable, what´s reality like? I can only imagine. Gonna give it another go now a few years later. Peace out!
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This War of Mine is currently priced at 18.99€ on Steam.
No, This War of Mine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 18.99€ on Steam.
Yes, This War of Mine received 94,484 positive votes out of a total of 101,740 achieving an impressive rating of 9.15.
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This War of Mine was developed and published by 11 bit studios.
Yes, This War of Mine is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, This War of Mine is not playable on MacOS.
Yes, This War of Mine is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, This War of Mine is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, This War of Mine is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, This War of Mine does not support VR.
This War of Mine is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 8 DLCs available for This War of Mine. Explore additional content available for This War of Mine on Steam.
Yes, This War of Mine is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
No, This War of Mine does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, This War of Mine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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