This War of Mine Review

The folks over at 11 bit studios have struck the treasure trove of essential gamer experience in their new title, This War of Mine. The game introduces you to the unfortunate circumstance of living as a group of survivors in a city under siege. There are no game settings to change the scenario or difficulty settings; the game drops you right into a house that appears to have seen its fair share of tumult with a group of survivors who maintain a specific personality and skill-set throughout the experience. Your mission is simply to survive and the game affords you the ability to make tough moral choices, throughout, as to how you wish to go about surviving. “It seems quite safe here…” does it?   Case in point, every night you’re offered the chance to go scavenging for food, materials and weapons and varying locations, some of these locations offer huge resistance and danger to that endeavor and are usually the locations that harbor bandit groups and malevolent NPCs; there are, however, locations that offer little to no resistance with no imminent danger wherein you’re posed with a decision on whether you want to force, rob or even kill your way through the site in order to scavenge their stocks freely. These scenarios present very interesting and felt effects on your survivors as the scavenger you’ve selected can fall into terrible depression and ultimately even commit suicide as a result of the weight of their actions. Other survivors living in the house with you can a…