This War of Mine
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Survivors brew moonshine and grow tobacco to trade, and consume alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, and pills/painkillers to manage mood, health, and pain.
The game centers on the misery of trapped civilians, with themes of starvation, grief, despair, and moral collapse driving the entire experience.
Realistic firefights with human scavengers and soldiers, plus sniper deaths; combat shows blood in a muted 2D art style without gore or dismemberment.
The player can break into homes, steal food and supplies from other survivors, and rob or kill non-combatants to stay alive.
A scripted scene depicts a soldier attempting to sexually assault a woman, which the player can choose to intervene in or ignore.
Survivors overwhelmed by depression and loss can take their own lives, and companions grieve these deaths.
Occasional mild profanity appears in character dialogue and diary entries.
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What it is
This War of Mine is a survival strategy game in which you manage a small group of ordinary civilians hiding in a bombed-out house during a city siege. By day you shelter from snipers while crafting, cooking, and tending to hunger, injury, and morale; by night you send someone out to scavenge nearby ruins for food, medicine, and materials. Content includes realistic armed combat against soldiers and scavengers with blood, the option to steal from and kill unarmed civilians, brewing and trading alcohol and cigarettes, and heavy themes of starvation, grief, and moral compromise. Survivors can fall into depression and take their own lives, and one encounter implies an attempted sexual assault the player may try to stop.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and desperate choices as costs rather than achievements: harming or robbing innocents pushes your characters into guilt and depression that can spiral into breakdown or suicide, while acts of mercy lift morale. It presents war entirely from the civilian side and treats survival as a grim moral weight, not a reward.
Details
- Developer
- 11 bit studios
- Publisher
- 11 bit studios
- Released
- Nov 14, 2014
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