This War of Mine: Complete Edition

The game has a major strength in it's storytelling and it's atmosphere. However, it fails miserably at capitalizing on it. Overall, my memories of the game are about the good parts, but whenever I boot it up I remember how horribly boring it is. I've seen others comment the same. They love the game but hate playing it. I wouldn't say I love the game at all, but I respect some of it's qualities. The never ending gameplay loop of scavenging for useless items, crafting boring things and exploring one dull area or another, ruins it however. As a player, I only occassionally enjoyed it, when exploring an interesting area. I know the game is meant to be bleak. It focuses on civilian struggles and suffering. I just don't see why they had to make the gameplay so horribly tedious. Scavenge some scraps to upgrade your workbench or build a little herb garden or whatever. If at least, it felt more realistic, I guess it would have been OK. But it doesn't even feel realistic. Scavenging, you run around with half a ton of garbage on you. For example, you may want to craft a chair at home. You can't scavenge one because it's too big or whatever, but you can carry ten times the crafting material. More about chairs: crafting a few cigarettes requires as much crafting material one chair. Food is incredibly valuable but in this supposedly hyper realistic sandbox game you aren't even able to allow eggs to hatch. You can grow plants during the cold winter months though. One problem: it is all made up. The location, Pogoren, is fictional. The characters are fictional. Why not make it more realistic by choosing actual locations and basing the stories on actual events. At times, the stories impresses but overall the qualities are few and far between. The gameplay is extremely boring 80% of the time. I'll read Balkan Babel instead of finishing the game.

Great game

1)Everything controlled by 1 mouse button(except for mouse wheel zoom). Since this is not going to matter to the developers, this explains the 1 star rating. 2)No camera wasd nor any follow options. 3)Combat is almost hopeless to which you will almost always lose. Mostly, due to your characters inaction. No matter how fast the player button mashes the target! You must shift the camera, zoom, target accurately AND gauge where other enemies are around you. All at the same time......with 1 mouse button...wtf were the devs thinking!? If the idea is to frustrate the player to make a point of how the characters feel, they succeeded. But now I will never play any of their games in the future. Good job folks, I hate the game this much, under the current 1 button scheme.

Yes, this game has a strong atmosphere and shows the horrors of war. BUT the gameplay is extremely boring. Just click on thing and wait. I died fairly quickly, but I'm okay with that. Maybe it's a stupid decision to try to help people when you are desperate and I have no problem with a game that forces you to do hard choices. It's really just the boring gameplay that's really bothering me.

Do you want to know what it's like to be 90 years old and everything takes a long time to complete? Always tired, hungry, and in a bad mood? This is the game for you. This game has 0 respect for your time. Instead of advancing time when you have a task to complete, you have to sit there waiting for an arbitrary progress meter to complete. You never have enough food or supply, you can't carry practically anything, and literally every single thing that you do in this game has a time sink mechanism attached to it. 1 hour after waking up and your character is crying about being tired because you used a pickaxe for 5 minutes. I could forgive some of the 'difficulties' with surviving in the game, but over 50% of the game is waiting. Waiting for your character to walk somewhere, waiting for them to open a door, waiting for them to cook something, etc. Style over function. It also runs like a complete dog. No borderless window, so you have to use borderless gaming. It works but tabbing is still painful and causes the game to hang every time like it's on the edge of crashing. The OST is decent, but it's short and only 1 tone. For me, this game is one of those that almost hit the mark in several areas but never does. Too much waiting. Mind boggling how this title has a higher rating than Frostpunk. It's not even close to half the game that is, in every single area imaginable.