![]() Not only will supplies become more scarce, but as the weather changes, keeping everyone warm, fed, and even mentally sound becomes harder and harder. As the days pass, the city around you changes, and your needs will, too. While a lot of the other survivors out there are just trying to get by and may want to barter with you, others take more of a dog-eat-dog approach and can raid your home base, or attack you while you're out. You can choose to have people guard home base, sleep, or send them out searching, and if the latter, you'll get to explore a variety of other locations for supplies while keeping an eye out for danger. ![]() ![]() At night, sleep is of course essential to keeping everyone healthy and functioning, but it's also the only time you have to scavenge beyond your home. It's not much to speak of at first, and you'll have to scavenge materials to build beds, rainwater collectors, a heater, even a simple cook top and more. With no idea of knowing how far off an end to the fighting may be, how long will you last? And more importantly, what will you be willing to do when it seems like you have no other choice? This War of Mine illustrates an often overlooked and underexamined side of conflict, and despite some issues with repetition and simple mechanics, serves to humanize war rather than laud it.īy day your time is spent at your home base, fortifying and building, as well as caring for your party. Food is scarce, medicine even more so, and the only supplies you have are what you can find or make yourself. See, everyone thought the war would be over soon, but it's been several years, and three strangers who have banded together in the crumbling remains of a house they've taken for their base are barely able to get by day to day. ![]() Who doesn't like to play the hero? But 11 Bit Studios are shifting the focus with indie survival sim This War of Mine, where instead of the gun toting hero, you control a group of three civilians in that war-town, bombed and dangerous town, struggling to survive. It's no secret that games like to glorify war, often simply by casting you as the hero who rappels down from the helicopter into the war-torn, bombed out town and blasting up the "bad guys" to save the day.
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