Games can be ridiculously reductive portrayals of complex problems. Everything is eventually solvable via learning and repetition. Once you figure out the system, you can start exploiting it. What was once difficult becomes easy. War, politics, relationships… they're all "winnable" if you simply have the skill and insight to play the system. This War of Mine is a different–and far more honest–kind of game.
Even before you hit the menu screen, you've seen that same Hemingway quote so often trotted out by the Call of Duty series: "In modern war you die like a dog for no good reason." Except in This War of Mine, that quote really is a guiding principle. As you try to lead a group of survivors during an unnamed conflict, by scavenging for items, jury-rigging survival aids like heaters and vegetable gardens, and bartering with other survivors for goods, you might occasionally feel like you're getting the hang of wartime survival. But then This War of Mine reminds you, in shockingly effective and heartbreaking fashion, that war doesn't follow predictable rules. Sometimes everyone just dies, with no rhyme or reason.
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