Imagine your loved one not in a cozy chair with a cup of coffee, but somewhere in the Donbass or Yemen, hungry, wounded, unarmed. What would you do? This War of Mine shows the war not from the point of view of an elite soldier, but from the point of view of ordinary people who were united by the war and sheltered in a dilapidated house. It is dangerous to go outside during the day - most streets are shot by snipers who spare neither children nor women. During daylight hours we are busy restoring the house and taking care of the health of the characters. At these moments, the game resembles The Sims, only in a different, much darker setting. At night, the most interesting thing begins - one of our charges goes to the city for provisions and medicine. It's up to you to decide whether to steal the last food from the old people, try to look for something in a destroyed building, or desperately steal precious canned food and bandages from under the noses of the military. During the day, anyone can come to you - from a merchant to a suspicious-looking person asking to go on a sortie with him. In this game, choice plays a very important role, not in a plot sense, but in a spiritual sense - to leave medicine for a sick comrade or give it to children who could become orphans without it? There are a lot of such moments; it is during this difficult choice that you can understand whether during the war you will slide to the level of a beast or continue to bear the proud title of Man? If we ignore the spiritual component of the game, then we have ordinary survival, of which there have been so many recently. A crooked combat game, clearly tailored for mobile devices, and fairly routine everyday life, if you have discovered how you can earn a living here, enough to last you two days ahead.
Whether you play TWoM or not is your choice. If it weren’t for the interesting theme, critics would have rated the game five or six out of ten; I listed all the disadvantages above, but This War of Mine excels with its unusualness, frequency and complexity of choice, and detailed depiction of the world around us.