This War of Mine

A distinctly joyless and frustrating exercise in chasing one's tail in the pursuit and management of inadequate and ever dwindling resources. It's blend of left clicking your way around a two dimensional side scrolling map, opening and closing menu lists, and selecting from said menu lists will no doubt appeal to some. As might its binary moral choices, basic physical and mental health management, the predictable raids on your shelter that occur exactly every second night and invariably steal the one thing you really needed, and the start to finish grind of always being short of whatever it is you need. I bought it at a 75% discount. It doesn't feel like value for money.

Went to look for supplies at night, found a rat that i could not kill with fists, returned home to find everyone slaughtered. 11/10 Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaB5gVdje8k&list=PLMzbhssqhvKkERPn1MRwd_xvDuH3cEIbk

whats worse is they never fix stuff when it goes sour on their end, which is why i stopped doing business with these guys actually. They (the developers) are not even smart enough to realize that $1.99 as DLC on an android version of this game would cost them more in the future, like a complete lack of sales from users that would be the most likely to buy from them in the future, they don't seem to care. I have been expressing to them how their DLC is unavailable offline in the android version, and how the people at Kalypso fixed the same thing and who to speak with there to figure it out, they have not taken any time to look into it. with the save bug on the PC version I guess I should point out that the fad that this game was, is now over. 11 bit studios should be renamed to "two bit studios" (1+1=2..) because that's what they are in truth, they do not even work to fix their errors, and after you bought it, it's on you. Best advice, avoid 11 Bit studios games entirely, here and on the Google Play Store / IOS store. God knows they don't care about their users experience, they just want your money, and once they have it they care even less. You can reach out to them and after YEARS the things you reach out to them about, will still not be fixed, though they will make more DLC and BS to sell you, for a non-right working title, and DLC that will not work properly either.

I was stoked when I heard about it and then bought it on a deal. I have not played something that can be really compared to it genre-wise, but it feels like playing The Sims a bit. You are controlling beings, that have certain character flaws and talents and you manage their needs. The goal is to survive but on the easier maps and with the more useful set of people you can also try to really sustain yourself quite well. However, the harder maps show you: This game is not intended to let you built your little comfy survival centre but just to make it to the end of the war. And this is not fulfilling, which makes it feel real, I guess, I have not been to a war. Like The Sims, after a while, you would like more options and in some other comments people critique this as being unrealistic but I guess it is not The Walking Dead but rather focuses on the overall feeling of being a feeble survivor in an end of the world scenario with the plain goal "survival", not a hero tale. You get to know the characters by them sharing pieces of their mind and past but it is not primarily story driven. Like I said it is more of a management simulator. However, when you are struggling to keep them from being depressed, sick and starved then you really feel desperate. Maybe like a teacher thinking about her students, the future, the reason why to live to the next day. Since the game simulates the everyday life in wartime it is also time intensive. Everything takes long, you have to calculate who stays up on guard and who has to scavange, when to risk this ones life for the rescue of a person in danger....

Brill game absolute spot on.