This War of Mine

Best war game...

Your efforts will be thrown away at random. Your team can not survive. You do not get to be a hero. Some despicable scenarios. More a social protest statement through linear story than a game.

Well they tried real hard with all this sad music, monochrome scenery and sad devs' photos, but truth be told even Don't Starve has a stronger atmoshpere of despair and struggle for survival. All in all, this is one half a simplified version of the infamous Fallout Shelter, with another half a Sid Meyer's Colonization, but only where you make a rum distillery and then send your wagons filled with booze down those trading routes to your Indian neighbours.

Good idea, but realisation suffered from beeing too Android/IOS oriented. That is the reason behind everything that is not good in this game.

This War of Mine brings the reality of being a civilian in a warzone into the comfort of your computer chair, quickly making you forget yourself and pulling you into the stories of the "colony" of survivors that you are tasked with managing. This is a game built on atmosphere, so keep that in mind when purchasing. There will be no "badass soldier kicking ass" here, only despair and a tiny sliver of hope that the war will end before you die of hunger. The gameplay consits of two distinct parts: 1) Colony management 2) Resource collecting The colony management is where you will spend a large chunk of your time building and reinforcing your shelled out building to be at least a passable dwelling place. Your survivors will be hungry, cold, wet and it will be your job to get them through one more day. The resource collecting takes place in the form of nightly ventures into locations in the town to scavenge whatever you can. The game does a good job of giving you a variety of choices ranging from low-risk low reward to high-risk high reward. While the low reward places will get you by in the early game, as time goes on, the places will get depleted and you will have to take more risks. While it is possible to kill any who oppose your nightly raids, there are two problems with that. Obtaining weapons is difficult and killing people does bad things to the psyche's of your survivors. For me personally, the game doesn't suffer from many flaws of its own, but rather from the over-saturation of the market of these types of games. There are many games like it and there will be many more in months and maybe years to come. Thanks to this, the core gameplay can get tiring quickly, as it is not particularly innovative anymore. All in all, the game is a morosely beautiful colony management game that can at times leave you sitting in your chair wondering how the world can be so cruel. I suggest picking this up if you are into colony management and want a tear-jerking game.