These survivors, who found each other by fate, serendipity, or mere odds, have to look after each other, build a home for themselves, scavenge for goods, and, ultimately, keep their own peace of mind through the adversities upon them. The premise is elegantly simple, and yet, deeply complex: you control a group of civilians who, somehow, managed to survive a separatist war in an unnamed country in what, most likely, is a fictional Eastern Europe. This is exactly what This War of Mine is about. These ever-present actors, serving only as background noise in most cases, live a completely different story from the soldiers who are, in fact, fighting their war.
“War is hell,” as the Fallout series constantly reminds us, but a man or woman geared up and ready for battle faces no hell like the one encountered by the civilians. In an instant, we are transformed from mere players to super soldiers facing planetary annihilation, a band of brothers in arms heading towards the liberation of a country, or, even, in a quest for survival. The idea of heading to combat can be romanticized ad absurdum in this industry. Every year, we get a handful of video games depicting armed conflict, in any possible way imaginable, but this is probably the first true War Game ever made. We are constantly bombarded with dozens of war games.
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That’s what the graffiti outside “our home” reads in 11 Bits Studio’s This War of Mine, and, after long deliberation on how to start this review, I reached the conclusion that the phrase translates the message of the game better than I could.
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