You search nearby buildings for whatever you can find, load up a backpack (with a limited number of equipment slots) and then run back home. Scavenging is key to your survival, but it can only be done under cover of darkness, when the chances of being shot at by snipers is low. Each action has an effect: Scavenging and guarding wears a person out the next day they're slower than they would be if they'd rested, and they may want to lie down, making them less useful for preparing food and supplies. The others stay back at the home, either resting or guarding against looters. Grab what you canĪt night, you can send one member of your party to scavenge buildings in the surrounding area. So there is some benefit to altruism, even during times of war. You can turn away those looking for help, but be careful when you do: An act of kindness or generosity is sometimes rewarded with food, supplies, medicine, often at a time when you might need it very badly. One might be a good cook, able to stretch supplies further, while another might have a gift for bartering. Another may be a fast runner - useful for getting out of potentially lethal situations. The characters are randomized for each game, and each character has a different dominant skill: One may be very strong, for example, and capable of carrying more when scavenging than his comrades. The game puts civilians with no survival or combat experience in a bombed-out but habitable building, left to fend for themselves. But the execution is so entirely different, drawing a direct comparison with games like that is insulting. From the gameplay perspective, This War of Mine isn't conceptually different from simple casual fare like Farmville or Flo's Diner.

Thousands of Sarajevans lost their lives when Serbian forces surrounded the city in an attempt to drive out the Bosnian government forces within.Īt its core, This War of Mine is a task management game - you fill your time by making sure you have the supplies and equipment you need to survive at all costs.

While the setting of This War of Mine is a fictional eastern European city, the game itself was inspired by the real-life events of the four-year long Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

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