This War of Mine

I dont remember this game much but all i remmeber is killing the elderly for probably a cracker and a tylenol

There are so many ways to die and so little resources to keep your suriviors alive. Hunger, fatigue and cold are far away from the only things that will make your playthough a truly hellish exprience. Every day you must make decisions that often lead to unexpected outcomes. War isn't fun or easy, this game does a good job at showing all the hardship people have to go through just to live another day.

Most war games put you on the front lines with a rifle in your hands and adrenaline in your veins. This War of Mine does the opposite — it drops you behind the lines, in the rubble of a city under siege, where survival isn't about glory, but about desperation, morality, and hard choices. This is war through the eyes of the civilians. Inspired by the Siege of Sarajevo, This War of Mine tasks you with managing a group of ordinary people trying to survive in a war-torn city. These are not soldiers — they're teachers, chefs, musicians, and mechanics. They're cold, hungry, injured, and scared. And it’s your job to help them make it through another day. The gameplay mixes resource management, crafting, stealth, and emotional storytelling. By day, you fortify your shelter, cook food, care for the wounded, and try to stave off depression. By night, you send someone out to scavenge for supplies — often facing brutal moral dilemmas in the process. Do you steal from an elderly couple to feed your starving group? Do you risk injury to save a stranger calling for help? Do you ignore a knock at the door because you're low on meds? Every decision has a cost, and survival often means sacrificing your humanity. The game’s art style is hand-drawn, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful. The grayscale palette is punctuated by muted colors, adding to the sense of despair. The ambient soundtrack is minimal and melancholic — never overpowering, always appropriate. And yet, the most powerful element is silence. The game gives you space to feel. To stare at your characters as they sit in sorrow. To reflect after a gut-wrenching choice. It doesn’t yell at you. It lets the weight of war speak for itself. While the mechanics are relatively simple — crafting, managing hunger, sleep, and morale — the emotional complexity runs deep. Each playthrough is procedurally generated, offering different characters, stories, and events. No two runs feel the same, especially with the growing burden of your decisions over time. The game isn’t without its rough edges. The AI during scavenging can be a bit rigid, and the pacing in late-game scenarios can feel slow once your base is fortified. But those are minor blemishes on an otherwise unforgettable experience. This War of Mine isn’t just a game — it’s a statement. It has been used in classrooms, praised by humanitarian organizations, and even added to the Polish educational curriculum. It forces players to think not just tactically, but ethically. It reminds us that war is not just fought with bullets, but with hunger, trauma, and loss. The developers further supported this message with the “Stories” DLCs and the Final Cut, which refined visuals and added new content while maintaining the game’s somber tone. This War of Mine is a raw, emotional, and humanizing portrayal of war that lingers long after the screen goes dark. It’s not “fun” in the traditional sense — and that’s exactly the point. It’s a powerful piece of interactive storytelling that deserves a place among the most important games of its generation. If you’re looking for a game that challenges not just your skills but your conscience, This War of Mine will leave a lasting impression — and maybe a heavy heart. Rating: 8/10

You’re not a soldier. You’re not a hero. You’re just trying to make it through one more freezing night without losing your soul. This War of Mine flips the script on war games. It’s slow, heavy, and personal. Every decision weighs on you. Do you break into someone’s home to steal medicine, or let your sick friend die? There are no good answers, only consequences. The gameplay is tight, the atmosphere oppressive, and the emotional impact unforgettable. It doesn’t try to entertain—it tries to make you understand.

BASE GAME: 2/5 For what it’s worth, I do like the concept behind this war of mine. Playing as a survivor or group of survivors desperately trying to outlast the war around them by any means necessary was a unique concept when this game came out, and it still is one of the only games I know of that tries to show this perspective. where TWoM falls apart for me is in the gameplay; it feels like Balkan Fallout Shelter with its focus on base building, upgrades, and resource management. I was less concerned with the effect the war would leave on my three survivors than I was with collecting three cargo ships worth of lumber to upgrade my workshops. Likewise, most of the challenges in my run weren’t due to the consequences of trying to survive at the cost of other people in the city, but rather due to mechanics I didn’t understand, bugs/glitches, and strange occurrences like my survivors inexplicably becoming severely wounded after a calm night in a fully boarded up base. As of right now I don’t think This War of Mine is a bad game, but I don’t think I got it or it wasn’t meant for me. Maybe in the future I’ll try it again :p

★★★★★ This is the kind of game that is timeless, no matter if you played it when it originally came out or going into it now with no idea what the game has to offer it is phenomenal. I originally found this game watching youtubers I loved like Kubz Scouts back when he played it in 2016 and never really had the chance to play it myself. I bought this game recently for an amazing deal and thought its time to play it myself. Not only is it emotionally dark from the themes of war but the gameplay is so original and nothing like anything I have ever played, even with the additions of the story DLC's they all have amazing depth and cool dynamics for each of them. This game is challenging but in the way it makes you want to really try complete it and survive, the different choices you make will impact your run and it makes me appreciate the mechanics way more. I cannot recommend this game enough, I urge you to buy this if its ever crazy cheap in a sale, its the kind of game you can come back to and feel pulled in by all over again.

The game is very good and shows something that isn´t a big mistery but yet it has happened an will keep happening. WAR FRICKING SUCKS!

This is quite the thematic game to play nowadays...

Entertaining for one run, after that it becomes a little repetitive

The beauty of this game is - despite the realistic depiction of how people struggle during war, it encourages you to work together and create a safe haven where you can feel at home. More people should play this.

Very fun game with looting mechanics similar to State of Decay 2, little hard to start but after a bit it gets easier. 8/10

Great game. Gives war games a new perspective putting you in place of a civilian(s) trying to survive. And that will lead to moral choices, risky maneuvers, sleepless nights, hunger, depression... The game does have a learning curve, but you'll get the hang of it in you first couple in-game days.

FIrst: I LOVE THIS GAME! Second: The atmosphere in this game is formidable. And it hits the spot in a time when there is unrest in the world. This game gives a moving picture of what it must be like to try to survive. For better or worse. The game also offers ethical dilemmas, where you have to choose the high road - or maybe - choose "it is survival of the fittest"?. It is gripping and also offers moments with a little adrenaline rush. You will regret some decisions - no matter what! Third: This game made me totally addicted! When I finished a game, I couldn't think of anything else but playing it again. I've played over 200 hours, so this is THE ONLY GAME I've played that comes even close to the hours I put in playing "Age of Empires II". Fourth and final: I LOVE THIS GAME!

This War of Mine is the kind of game that doesn’t just challenge your strategy skills, it challenges your humanity. The gameplay feels like a classic survival sim. You manage resources, build shelter, scavenge at night, and try to keep everyone alive. But, where most games make survival feel heroic, this one makes it feel heavy. Every decision has weight. Do I steal from an old couple to feed my starving group? Do I risk sending a sick character out into sniper territory for meds? You start questioning yourself. Not just what you can do, but what you should do. The storytelling is incredibly powerful. It doesn’t shove drama in your face. It lets it unfold quietly, naturally, and devastatingly. The atmosphere, the artwork, it all comes together to make this less of a game and more of an experience. War is hell.

Just a sad game talking of war and its consequences to regular people. Just too sad for me to finish it. But still a beautifully sad premise.

One of the best survival games I have ever played, if not the best. Everything is excellent, from the music to the game atmosphere to the emotions to the difficult choices that come your way. There are many challenges and the game is considered average to somewhat difficult. I highly recommend it.

2/10，一周目存活通关，差评。 一间网红工作室，一部被过誉的作品，一个我不会推荐给任何人玩的游戏。 卖的是“战争反思”和“反战氛围”，实际给玩家带来的体验只有刻意的营造苦难，强行制造反思，在此同时又缺乏鲜活合理的NPC以及世界观框架和平衡优秀的数值塑造，最终给玩家的体验只有一地鸡毛和强行吃shi的不适感。 不知道游戏里的小人到底是想活还是想死。如果是不想活的话，一开始捡到枪的时候就可以自我了断不和别人抢空气抢水抢食物吃，完美了事；如果是不想死的话，又会因为诸如杀了几个强盗或是偷了一点建材之类的一点小事就坐在地上不断重复悲伤失落崩溃失落崩溃的荒谬循环。如此自相矛盾的人物设计无不令这款游戏距离令人感到好玩与沉浸的境界相去甚远。 最关键的则是剧情上的矛盾点。游戏后期明明手握突击步枪和数十发子弹，却总打不过强盗的突袭，一晚上打出去三颗子弹，被抢走八颗，或是拿着枪却被持刀歹徒打伤都是屡见不鲜的事情。此外温度与冻死，吃药和病愈的机制更是滑稽至极——草药是不能治高等级病症，但你抓一把塞嘴里会死不是？ 最后的最后，所有的评价，归结为两个字，过誉。

Awesome game with sad story and gameplay. This game is telling a story from the perspective of a survivor, an oridnary human being who is constantly struggling to survive at the times of war. I really like that you are constantly under some pressure to make hard and moral decisions for survival. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Got this game on a whim. I heard it challenges you with moral problems and it does. The game is pretty glum and the subject material dark. But it makes you think.

it´s best on the first run, when you can´t manage resources properly cause you don´t know recipes and survival techniques, as a result your characters fall ill, get wounded or outright die. hopeless and depressing, unique experience. these are the feelings and experiences that a game on war should give. on further runs you gain some skills and it gets repetitive and boring as the quests are all the same as are the locations. there is also stories mode with plot from which the last broadcast is the best. fading embers is middling with some schematic plot twists, but art during the wartime is an interesting topic.

I personally bought this game because it's about a war in Bosnia and I live next door so it interested me. Never was a huge fan of this type of games but playing this game for as little as I did it really was fun. It has a really cool atmosphere, aesthetics and characters. Definitely gotta try it if you're a fan of this game genre.

The grind is real! You are constantly under some pressure to scavenge for materials, food, fuel, medicine to survive. If it gets too cold, your people get sick. If you can't find food for the day, they get hungry. Bandits try to steal your stuff and people get injured. There are outposts you can search that are under military control, or near a military patrol and the soldiers sometimes randomly get angry and decide to start shooting at you. Unless your scavenger is fast, they'll most like end up dead. Unfortunately, this game is all too real for the world we exist in, so the game is great at trying to build empathy for the majority of regular people caught in the middle of a war. People who get murdered trying to find food at a sanctioned aid station.

Its alright for $1 game, basic survival game like keeping your survivors and supplies in check. Scavenge for more supplies each night. It gets boring real quick after a while as there is no incentive that motivates the player (at least imo). The story mode itself is okay-ish. There are some questionable plot holes but i assume that's just on my end. There's no tutorial involved but playing and fiddling with the game for a couple of minute is enough to learn what you need to do.

The best game I played in 2025, it reminds me of current world events :) "Refusing to fight for what one believes is right is not an act of cowardice. It is the realization that war is futile."

This War of Mine – A Game That Left a Scar, Not Just an Impression I’ve played countless war games, but none have ever made me stop, sit in silence, and just feel the weight of survival like This War of Mine. This isn’t about soldiers, medals, or glory. This is about civilians—trapped in the crossfire, starving, freezing, breaking, enduring. You don’t win This War of Mine. You outlast it. Maybe. What makes this game so hauntingly powerful is its brutal honesty. Every choice feels heavy: Do I rob an elderly couple to feed my group? Do I risk venturing out under sniper fire for medicine? Can I bear to leave a wounded stranger begging at my door while I protect the last of our supplies? This game doesn’t offer “fun” in the traditional sense—it offers perspective. The kind that lingers with you after you close the game. The kind that makes you look at news headlines differently. It's art, in the most raw and human way possible. Every character has a name, a past, a breaking point. And by the time the war ends—if it ends—you’re not celebrating victory. You’re just wondering what kind of person you became to survive. If you’ve never played a game that truly challenges your morality, your empathy, and your humanity, this is the one. This War of Mine doesn’t want to entertain you. It wants to make you understand.

The best thing about the game is the art style and the morality mechanics that truly reflect the horror of war. Addictive and fun game play.

Such a successfull video game that acccomplishes to make people able to look at the war from dramatic and realistic angle I think it can be thought one of the classics of video games that bring survival and strategy genre together after the time longer than 10 years since it is initial release

Great game, only thing is once you figure out the key to keep them happy, it's no longer that challenging, however, still great game tho. Worth every penny.

Good little indie game but very flawed. There is a fundamental problem: lack of ability to speed up time. This means that you'll spend large amounts of time doing nothing but watching your characters literally do nothing. This is bad game design. Also, every single location on the map you can loot and visit is the same for every single story, so there is extremely little replay value as the only thing that changes is the flavor text and role play of slightly different characters. Was expecting much more in the ways of showing the brutality of war and meaningful choices, events etc. It's fun enough for a single playthrough on the normal mode, and maybe some of the "stories" mode, which have even more problems because the stories often make no sense or are incredibly dull. Get on sale. 5.5/10

Really enjoy this game, after all these years it still holds up. Only negative thing I have to say is that it doesn't play well with controller. Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to build/upgrade etc. But that's a none issue.

The game is peak except when you're scavaging and your character decided to just open the fucking door infront of 2 soilders because you used right click by mistake

Awesome game. Got it on sale for 99c and didn't expect much. Thoroughly impressed.

I really like the game but if often crashes. I don't know if this is new with the dlc or not. I really love 11 bit studios games. I am saving up for alters.

This war of mine, a great war simulation game where you are not invincible, you dont respawn, but take care of other people that are in the same situation as you are, its a great game, has amazing progression, the game being more aggressive with the events as the days and the war rages on, i totally recommend it, nothing to lose and for one eur/$ that is a must try !

The is amazing, I got it near release and still come back to this game from time to time. In my opinion its a very enjoyable game and I would recommend it to people who enjoy playing survival/resource management like games. It's really fun and after your first run you can get an understanding on how most things work.

Just got it on 95% sale and I'm sure this is the best game I've ever bought for this price.

Amazing game... captures the idea of how it tends to be during war. Stories are very interesting to play trough and its pretty fun to explore around and figure out things in town. Once you figure out how it works you can just focus the stories (:

i mean what you want more... i love this game and i can deeply put my life into it. plat it on playstation . full achievemented it on xbox and now on steam

Hard. Grim. Unforgiving. Mistakes cost lives... just like war. Unlike real war though, this one's re-playable and I recommend it a lot.

I had heard of it and wanted to play it and after getting it on sale, I am not disappointed. I have really enjoyed it so far even though my favourite character got killed while I was still learning the ropes.

An essential game. Frequently on sale for literally PENNIES so buy it!

Hauntingly beautiful, and truly heartbreaking. Fun and poignant

This game made me feel so bad for the pregnant mother in one of the groups you can play for. Truly a 10/10 game experience at demonstrating the horrors of war and sorrow that comes with it.

I think I like this game and the concept, however, most of my decisions and outcomes feel made by "luck". I know that "that's war" but as a gameplay experience, even if you try to do things in a good way, the game simply doesn't let you. I still enjoyed it and even bought the DLC stories but yeah... not a fan of those things

Intense and at other times bitterly beautiful, a master at the envision of surviving in a war torn country where your forced to make moral sacrifices and tactical decisions just to survive. Highly recommend for people who want a good blend of realism, survival and resource management.

I love how the story makes me immerse and involved-this games is not just about survival, but how we choose certain choice that defies our morality and standard. I also want to point out how good the character of the story and skills plays amidst of the war. In addition, the different facets of the game and how I want the game to play; I can be bad or the good one.

Shit so boring and dull it makes me want to die If thats the way this game conveys "war is hell" message then i did a terrible job, no matter what games are supposed to be fun and engaging, but this isnt it, theres no fun in watching a guy clean rubble with his hands for 1 minute straight to just move forward into next room to be met with same rubble once again,, pointless time waste animation after another, personally id stay away from it, i bought it only because it was on sale

Shit game, don't buy. Yeah, the plot get's you interested and it hooks you on exploring new locations and scavenges, BUT the mechanics are terrible and full of bugs, which ruins the whole experience. - when they say on the radio that tobacco is rare and is now valuable goods, it does not give you more value on trades - when you go to the military outpost, the description says soldiers are willing to give more for cigs and booze but again not extra trade bonus for these items - you cannot speed up which makes the whole gameplay tedious and excrutiating at some points - you give meds or bandages to your people and they are stuck in this endless loop of terminally ill or sick or badly wounded and never recover, even if you have an abundance of meds and give it to them several days in a row. I mean, maybe it's just meant to be this way but it still kinda sucks because you cannot survive long enough to reach any final of the plot/story. - you board up the whole building and get an alarm door, but it's still not enough to prevent raids. there's not even mention that your alarm door ringed and that made the scavengers go away. Kinda stupid and pointless. So yeah... the whole idea of strategizing and planning for surviving kinda goes down the drain because you don't get any of these bonuses and everything just seems so random and you're basically just clicking stuff over and over again trying to reach something but you never do cause it's just mostly dependent on RnG/luck. Without the speeding up ability this just becomes so annoying to play. Sure, it's an interesting game because it's different, but that's just not enough when you have this many bugs. Worth it for 1 euro, which is what I paid for it. Otherwise, probably not.

Game reeeeeaaaaalllly fancies wasting your time with long drawn out "please read this dialogue" type of scenes. If a character dies in story mode theres no "retry mission", nope, instead you have to sit through the slide show every time before it asks if you wanted try again from the previous day. It seems to be a fun game but REEEEALLLLYY wants you to feel sentimental bout shit so everything is slow and drawn out. Good game, just really annoying "PLEASE OH PLEASE PLAYER FEEL EMOTION AT THIS SAD DIALOGUE THATS FIVE WORDS LONG BUT HANGS ON SCREEN FOR 30 SECONDS!"....

I honestly don't know why this game is "critically acclaimed" I just don't see it. The game play is a point and click game on the level of a mobile game. and I don't mean that in a positive way. The gameplay loop is lame, there's almost nothing to do in this game. There is no tutorial, and the game is trying too hard to be this dark "hardcore" type of game when the core mechanics of the game doesn't support it. The "gameplay" if you could call it that is too slow even for someone like me who enjoys slow paced rts like games. I don't know why the devs didn't add a simple fast forward button. Combat is....terrible, to put it bluntly. Combat is basically RNG where you're always set to lose. I still couldn't believe my guy, who had a crowbar, lost to a dude with nothing. Characters would often ignore commands and just rush the enemy then stand there like an idiot. I get that the devs are trying to make the player feel underpowered and hopeless, as well as trying to get the message that "violence is bad" but this isn't the way to do it. everything is so tedious in this game, from the crafting to the limited "slots" in your backpack when scavenging. Technical wise, I've had this game crash on me for the 15th time today. I don't know what's causing it, now It won't even start at all. Always unresponding the moment you start it up, a reinstall fixed it thank fully. Honeslty, I got more to complain about but I got this game for less than a buck, so... Yeah. Overall, I just don't see the "Critically acllaimed, indie best seller" on this game. It's basically a mobile game on pc. TLDR: Game is so slow, with very limited gameplay. Saying this game has "gameplay" is generous as it is, and it doens't even compensate by having a good story.