This War of Mine

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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1106 Ratings

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  1. damians1
    Feb 25, 2022
    10
    Świetna gra, doskonale pokazuje sytuacje cywili jaka obecnie się dzieje na Ukrainie po ataku faszystowskich wojsk rosyjskich.
  2. Pucks
    Jan 26, 2017
    10
    Ein unglaublich geniales Spiel von 11Bit. Man wird ständig moralischen Konflikten entgegengesetzt und kann sich entscheiden zwischen Gut und Böse. Sehr emotional werden einem die Geschichten der Überlebenden erzählt und jede Handlung hat seine Konsequenzen. Mit dem neuen The Littel Ones DLC, bei dem man zusätzlich auch noch auf ein Kind aufpassen muss kann man sich noch besser hineinfühlenEin unglaublich geniales Spiel von 11Bit. Man wird ständig moralischen Konflikten entgegengesetzt und kann sich entscheiden zwischen Gut und Böse. Sehr emotional werden einem die Geschichten der Überlebenden erzählt und jede Handlung hat seine Konsequenzen. Mit dem neuen The Littel Ones DLC, bei dem man zusätzlich auch noch auf ein Kind aufpassen muss kann man sich noch besser hineinfühlen und ändert finde ich auch ein bisschen die Art, wie man sich entscheidet.… Expand
  3. bdurmaz
    Apr 29, 2017
    8
    What a great game. One of the best ever in building atmosphere and intensity. Visuals are really class and fits the atmosphere. It is fun and it also has something to say.
  4. CoreGamer1408
    Dec 17, 2018
    8
    Interesting concept about civilians trying to survive in a civil war torn zone. A game of two parts one is the solo scavenging stealth runs and two is the home base crafting party and resource management options. This experience can be quite emotionally impactive. The characters can even suicide if not well managed and looked after properly.
  5. Burevestnik
    Nov 19, 2017
    10
    For three or four days now, I have played nothing but "This War of Mine". I am a veteran of Iraq and I remember all too well the hardships it brought upon the civilians, especially in the beginning of the war. I remember being heartbroken at the sight of children crying and begging for food on the side of the road.

    This "game" puts you square in the middle of the experiences of those    For three or four days now, I have played nothing but "This War of Mine". I am a veteran of Iraq and I remember all too well the hardships it brought upon the civilians, especially in the beginning of the war. I remember being heartbroken at the sight of children crying and begging for food on the side of the road.

    This "game" puts you square in the middle of the experiences of those civilians. It is a brutal, kill or be killed world - where an act of unimaginable violence may let you live another day, but it can also break your heart and soul. Some days, you are offered a chance at compassion - and if you take that chance, risking your own safety and resources for others, you may find you feel a bit better about yourself.

    Then there are the times where you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. You are unarmed, scavenging for anything to save your friends, and you peep through a keyhole and see a soldier brutally beating - and possible worse - a woman. He has an AK-47, you have a lockpick and a rumbling stomach. So you sit there and watch - afraid that any noise may turn his violent attention upon you. When it is all done, you hide until he leaves and then, shamefully, pick over the bloodied body of the woman for anything she may have scavenged before the soldier got to her.

    This is "This War of Mine" - a dark, beautiful, haunting, exhilerating, and horrible tale.

    What's that tagline, "The first casualty of war is innocence"? It applies here - in a way you would have never imagined coming from a computer game.    … Expand
  6. scarguy
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Very good game. I adore. Nice action, scenario and graphic. I finished it 3 because it's perfect.
  7. Gaming_Bear
    Dec 27, 2022
    10
    Unique concept for a war game so big points right out the gate for taking such a bold move. Game play was immersive, plus I am biased as I love a good game where you start with little and have to build your way up and survive. Art style and music are very well done to pull you into the bleak drudgery of this war setting.
  8. Mpbpl
    Mar 16, 2018
    10
    Masterpiece of a game, doing what games does best: make you feel the experience.
    This game is unbearably good, even more because it is about a subject that most people ignore: the destruction that war brings on the innocent. This game could be put in every shooter made: while people in COD, Battlefield are killing each other, there are innocent trying to survive all that war.
    You get    Masterpiece of a game, doing what games does best: make you feel the experience.
    This game is unbearably good, even more because it is about a subject that most people ignore: the destruction that war brings on the innocent. This game could be put in every shooter made: while people in COD, Battlefield are killing each other, there are innocent trying to survive all that war.
    You get control of a party of people that met after the civil war started and are living on an empty house that they found, with few supplies and different traits you need to work together to survive the war, scavenging, blocking holes in the house, creating heat for winter, food and water, Oh My God so much food and water. If your supplies are over that's it, slowly dying of thirst, hunger, sickness. And the story of that character is over, war killed him.
    This game is so good in making you love each character and trying to make everybody survive is hard, and it should be.
    Truly a masterpiece.    … Expand
  9. aralath
    Jan 19, 2019
    8
    Watched from a walkthrough video. Quite an atmosphere. Whole game is based on making hard decisions.
  10. greenbey
    Jul 14, 2020
    9
    A+
    A survival game where you control a group of survivor civilians in a country at war.
    Art style is on point.
  11. Gregnator
    Sep 28, 2019
    9
    This war of mine is a great game that tells the story of survivors of a civil war, from a realistic perspective. No high action movie style brainless shooting and killing. You take control over a few civilians in a house and you need to survive. Food, water, defenses, and medicine are the most important things. At night you go out and scavenge. Taking a person's life isn't just a simpleThis war of mine is a great game that tells the story of survivors of a civil war, from a realistic perspective. No high action movie style brainless shooting and killing. You take control over a few civilians in a house and you need to survive. Food, water, defenses, and medicine are the most important things. At night you go out and scavenge. Taking a person's life isn't just a simple click. Your actions have consequences. If your character dies, they're dead forever. Will you sneak and steal from bandits? Are you willing to kill an old woman for a can of tuna, and have your character become depressed or even suicidal? How far would you go to survive? And once the war is over, would you be able to live with yourself?… Expand
  12. ssweisz
    Apr 3, 2019
    9
    Juego totalmente recomendado, sin embargo, puede ser que haya a quien no le guste. En lo personal dude en comprarlo porque a pesar de todas las buenas críticas que había oído y/o escuchado el gameplay me parecía algo monótono y no muy entretenido.

    Que equivocado estaba, es muy diferente verlo jugar y jugarlo (aunque haya a quién le guste verlo), quede totalmente enganchado con la primer    Juego totalmente recomendado, sin embargo, puede ser que haya a quien no le guste. En lo personal dude en comprarlo porque a pesar de todas las buenas críticas que había oído y/o escuchado el gameplay me parecía algo monótono y no muy entretenido.

    Que equivocado estaba, es muy diferente verlo jugar y jugarlo (aunque haya a quién le guste verlo), quede totalmente enganchado con la primer partida que jugué, el juego hace que te inmersas en la historia y con tus jugadores. Es un juego muy crudo, entretenido, pero no divertido, y esto no es malo, porque no es su fin divertir, entretener si, pero todo lo contrario a divertir. Pocos juegos han logrado que sintiera un nudo en la garganta con el desenlace de ciertos eventos a partir de mis decisiones. Una obra maestra.

    Técnicamente el juego no es muy demandante, por algo hasta puede ser jugado en celular, este juego junto con sus expansiones son totalmente recomendables    … Expand
  13. Amorph0us
    Jan 7, 2022
    9
    Great scenario, nice execution and very addictive! Really captures you in the atmosphere and this is what most is about a survival game.
  14. ucankabak
    Dec 20, 2018
    10
    Probably one of the best games that i've played. Not because it has insane mechanics, not because stunning graphics but the story that game tell to us, the feels that feel to us.
  15. rezo_21
    Sep 25, 2021
    8
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  16. showt
    Dec 23, 2019
    9
    1. Сюжет - 10.
    2. Графика - 8.
    3. Атмосфера - 10.
    4. Музыка, озвучка - 8.
    5. Геймплей - 10.
    6. Управление - 10.
  17. 13baker11
    Dec 13, 2019
    10
    This War of Mine is a masterpiece.
    The game itself has quite unconventional approach towards war. It's not full glory, whoever kills the most style of game. Killing is a horrific action, sadly sometimes unavoidable. This is a game which makes you think about what's a necessity and what's atrocity in the times of war. And that's why this game is so unique and worth playin
  18. Maciejkamil
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    This game perfectly shows what word 'war' means. It's a compulsory experiance for anyone, who thinks that war is 'cool'.
  19. Breakage
    Jan 31, 2020
    10
    This game is hard. But hey, being stuck in a real war isn't easy too. You don't even know if you're going to last to see the sunrise. I hope that wars will end and will never happen anymore. Nothing is impossible.
  20. Chubac
    May 13, 2020
    10
    This game is a MASTERPIECE! Both the characters, the story and the gameplay are flawless.
  21. garygreen
    Sep 4, 2020
    10
    This war of mine have show us about the human life and a war surface to the children in a real life
  22. DavieSl
    Oct 25, 2022
    10
    Brilliant game.
    Everything about it is good and lots of mods to use if you find it too difficult.
  23. Anima2z
    Jun 28, 2020
    8
    great experience, tense, sad, beautifully musica graphics, and story, tense gameplay
  24. ShefardAlex
    Jul 2, 2020
    9
    Beautiful game, but at the same time terrible.
    Not terrible because it is bad as a game, but because with a bad passage, the heart shrinks for each hero, it is a pity to lose every character you keep, but alas, this is a reflection of the war that no one except politicians of all stripes.
    The only thing that seems to me that the game still does not reach true tragedy, which seems to me    Beautiful game, but at the same time terrible.
    Not terrible because it is bad as a game, but because with a bad passage, the heart shrinks for each hero, it is a pity to lose every character you keep, but alas, this is a reflection of the war that no one except politicians of all stripes.
    The only thing that seems to me that the game still does not reach true tragedy, which seems to me not enough to hold out the drama if someone dies to the end.
    Plus, this game doesn’t show war, but people who are trying to avoid it, and this is more original than stamped shooters as battlefield 5    … Expand
  25. JanKiy
    Jun 29, 2020
    10
    Это потрясающая игра. Хоть это и инди, но сделана она великолепно. Прекрасно передаётся ощущение войны, недостатка ресурсов, страха, что эта ночь может закончится очень трагично. Эта игра является одной из самых любимых
  26. Dreefi
    Aug 1, 2020
    10
    I'm not sure if any death of one of my characters in games ever felt like when I lost someone in This War of Mine... I've felt miserable taking almost every life I've had to take. It was painful just to watch, but the playing experience was amazing and I'm glad this game exists and shows us the pain and cruelty of civil war.
  27. Rhadyant
    Oct 2, 2020
    10
    One of the best games I've ever played, It tells the true story about war, that is not fire and glory as a lot of video-games and movies want us to see it. War is horrible, almost every time it's just for the ambition of two different groups and the civilians trapped in the middle are who suffer the most.

    I played for 40+ hours and sometimes I want to revisit it again to remember this    One of the best games I've ever played, It tells the true story about war, that is not fire and glory as a lot of video-games and movies want us to see it. War is horrible, almost every time it's just for the ambition of two different groups and the civilians trapped in the middle are who suffer the most.

    I played for 40+ hours and sometimes I want to revisit it again to remember this people, this survivors and their stories. It is an amazing game, sadly there is no more updates, this game deserves a sequel.    … Expand
  28. nsuki
    Jul 5, 2020
    9
    A very different way of telling dramatic stories. 2.5D provides a good combat mechanic. Especially, considering emotional consequences before acts leading you to pretend as a civil-war survivor.
  29. mesutyavuzx
    Aug 14, 2020
    10
    sadece DLC'lerini oynamadığım şaheser niteliğinde savaş ortamında evdeki insanları hayatta tutmaya çalıştığımız muhteşem oyun. Oynayın, oynatın.
  30. futureP
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  31. AnarHeest
    Aug 31, 2020
    10
    Best game I've played. Great atmosphere, sound and gameplay. Didn't get out from behind the computer for hours playing this game.
  32. ErayTellezi
    Nov 17, 2020
    8
    Yaşattığı ahlaki ikilemlerle, çok çok iyi bir oyun. savaş anında askerleri çok gördük. Önüne geleni vur, görev yap vesaire. Ancak bu oyun yıkılmış bir şehirde sivilleri konu alıyor. Öyle canınızın istediğini yapamıyorsunuz. Bu açıdan çok gerçekçi. Karakterlerinizin ihtiyaçlarına ve psikolojik durumlarına çok dikkat etmelisiniz. Bandaj yapıp takas etmek ihtiyaçlarınızı karşılamanın en kolayYaşattığı ahlaki ikilemlerle, çok çok iyi bir oyun. savaş anında askerleri çok gördük. Önüne geleni vur, görev yap vesaire. Ancak bu oyun yıkılmış bir şehirde sivilleri konu alıyor. Öyle canınızın istediğini yapamıyorsunuz. Bu açıdan çok gerçekçi. Karakterlerinizin ihtiyaçlarına ve psikolojik durumlarına çok dikkat etmelisiniz. Bandaj yapıp takas etmek ihtiyaçlarınızı karşılamanın en kolay yolu.… Expand
  33. williamornelas
    Oct 10, 2020
    9
    I loved the game concept, mechanics, story, just pretty much everything!!! The only thing is that after a while, things get repetitive, so it kind of takes all of the positive points a bit down.
  34. Fallconex
    Dec 17, 2020
    9
    At the same time a simple and ingenious game about the survival of civilians in the conditions of war and blockade.
  35. Torgall
    Dec 13, 2020
    9
    Interesting take on survival game, with quite sad and depresing feeling because of the setting. I played quite a lot an generaly if you stick to being a good guy trade/producer things get easy.
  36. Viper938
    Feb 25, 2022
    10
    Piękna akcja, wszyscy deweloperzy powinni pójść tą drogą, gra sama w sobie również bardzo dobra. #StopWar
  37. chiri
    Feb 3, 2021
    8
    This War of Mine is a good tactical game that not everyone will be able to understand what is going on in the game. It's a relatively a simple survival game that reminds you of the grey and grim of war. The adventure combined with a little story behind make the game very realistic.
  38. Memberry
    Mar 31, 2021
    9
    Ugh, the entry to the game sure is steep. But once you figure out the confusing interface the game only gets deeper and deeper. Has this unique "slav" smell around. Like Stalker. Something dirty yet strong. And well - war has ever been the subject of many games. But I dare to say - nothing told the story of what war really is - better than this one. Bravo 11bit.
  39. Nick7000
    Mar 9, 2023
    8
    Жутко, стильно. Очень годный симулятор выживания, способный вогнать вас в депрессию.
  40. Rnoviok
    Dec 4, 2021
    9
    A very good game showing the hardships of civilians in wartime
    We have to survive in a city where shootings are going on, get food and make difficult rash decisions
  41. CausticMisery
    Jan 28, 2023
    8
    The most depressing war-sim game you'll ever play. It's a fantastic experience.
  42. Mariusz_FCK_PTN
    Mar 6, 2022
    9
    Отличная трогательная игра. Спасибо за помощь Украине.
  43. SauceBox6
    Nov 26, 2022
    8
    10 - Masterpiece
    9 - Amazing
    8 - Great
    7 - Good
    6 - Okay
    5 - Mediocre
    4 - Bad
    3 - Awful
    2 - Painful
    1 - Unbearable
  44. SirFranzALot
    Jan 15, 2023
    10
    I love it. If you´re able to let loose and get drawn away by the emotions this game is transporting you will have a great experience. Of course not in a good way. It is an awful expereince which can drive you crazy. Of course you won´t feel the same way you would feel in a real war but that's okay. This game will show you a site of war which is not often enough discussed in otherI love it. If you´re able to let loose and get drawn away by the emotions this game is transporting you will have a great experience. Of course not in a good way. It is an awful expereince which can drive you crazy. Of course you won´t feel the same way you would feel in a real war but that's okay. This game will show you a site of war which is not often enough discussed in other videogames and which is right now quite important to know about.
    The graphical style is also quite nice and underlines the games message. It´s grey, dark and bland. The Gameplay is not balanced but quite hard (as it should be). Of course it´s still possible to survive the war. The overall design choices are very thoughtful and I never encountered a single bug. Pure 10/10.
    I think it was the right decision to create a small 2D-Game with tiny levels so the developers where able to focus on the gameplay and message. I hope that six days in fallujah will do as good as TWOM.    … Expand
  45. mkhue108
    Feb 26, 2023
    8
    Interesting survival game. Very realistic. Has great replayability but after 1 successful run (and countless failures) I was too depressed for more.
  46. Akshaysay
    Jun 21, 2023
    10
    i played this game back in 2018 and i have been coming back to it since then . these type of games rarely exist and i feel lucky to have found and played it...sure its difficult and doesn't hold your hand but don't be afraid to try it
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#31 Best PC Game of 2014
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#30 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#19 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 63 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 63
  3. Negative: 0 out of 63
  1. Impulsegamer
    Dec 11, 2019
    100
    For the price it is… I wouldn’t even say wait for a sale, I’d just say buy this game… it will challenge you, it will pull at your heart strings… but I think, especially in this day and age, we need games like this to remind us to care for one another and to point out what is really important.
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  2. Dealspwn
    Mar 22, 2015
    90
    A deeply atmospheric, emotionally compelling game that manages to treat war as a serious topic and examines the hard choices made by those caught in the middle of conflict.
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  3. Hyper Magazine
    Feb 9, 2015
    80
    Not many games can claim to be "edifying." I think this one can. [Issue#257, p.75]
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