12/30/2023 0 Comments This war of mine neighbors![]() ![]() Whether it's an elderly couple that just wants to be left alone, a starving hobo asking for scraps, a fellow scavenger looking to trade, or another group of survivors looking to protect what's theirs. There are few completely abandoned locations that are safe to scavenge, but in most buildings you'll encounter some kind of inhabitants. Obviously, going out and digging through blown-out buildings is no picnic. If no one goes out to scavenge, you'll quickly find yourself running out of resources. If no one sleeps, everyone will be too exhausted to do any work the next day. If you don't set a guard, it's likely that you'll be raided in the middle of the night. Once the sun goes down, you choose one person to go out and scavenge, while the rest stay back to sleep or guard the shelter. But all of these things require raw materials to build, and only at night is the city safe enough for you to leave the homestead and scavenge for goods. You can build furniture, gardens, rain barrels, distilleries, traps- anything to provide your survivors with vital supplies and creature comforts to keep them alive and sane. Your building is large enough to accommodate multiple people, and eventually set up a decent living situation for yourselves. During the day, the fighting in the streets keeps your group confined to the abandoned building you've decided to hole up in. Your days and nights follow a strict time limit, and if you don't finish what you're doing by the time the sun rises or sets- too bad. It's also a bit like Gods Will Be Watching in that one of your biggest challenges, aside from resource conservation, is the action economy. ![]() The interface is a bit like The Sims- in that you direct a group of people's day to day lives by sending them to various appliances and commanding them to interact with it. And that's just what Pogoren is- a modern metropolitan area that's been completely stripped of its first world status.Īs far as genres go, I would call This War of Mine a slow-paced strategy/survival game. But the sentiment was something like this: Modern America is obsessed with apocalypse fiction because it forces all of us that live in the first world to think about the horrors of living like the rest of the world. ![]() The first time I fired up this game, it brought to my mind a quote that I can't remember the exact wording, nor where I found it. You will have to scrounge to survive- digging through refuse in order to build something resembling infrastructure. You're just another group of civilians caught up in a war that has nothing to do with you, but has completely destroyed your lives, and threatens to do worse. The details of the war are vague at best, but they don't matter. In This War of Mine, you play as a group of civilian survivors in the fictional eastern-European-sounding country of Pogoren. Or is it an insurgency? Conflict? Rebellion? Whatever it is news networks feel they need to call it. But their most recent game takes a step away from the front lines of an intergalactic war in favor for the decrepit home front of a completely fictional, yet all too real civil war. Guns, soldiers, explosions- a military strategy that seems to say "if we blow enough of 'em up, they'll leave us alone eventually". If you're familiar with 11 Bit Studios, you know that they're the people behind Anomaly: Warzone Earth- a tower offense game where you fend off an alien invasion through the usual means. ![]()
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