This War of Mine

I murdered a family that was defenseless. I quit the game, looked at myself in a mirror. Cried, hugged my kids. Never opened the game again. 10/10

An absolute gem worth every penny you'd spend on it. Gameplay-wise, it's great. One of, if not the best base manager I can think of. Tough, but fair early game, where you don't rely on RNG to find the necessary goods, you're just barely surviving by design. Mid-game is lovely, since there's always something requiring you to think hard about what you'll do, as winter is coming, bandits will get bold and start raiding you more often, the fightings between rebels and soldiers will become more intense restricting your looting and so on and so forth. And since most scenarios end after 35-50 days, you'll never really relax up until the end. As for the exploration at night, it's absolutely lovely as well, with a large variety of locations and various scenarios for many of them. My only real complaint is caused purely by how good I am at the game already, clearing bandit hideouts usually has no morale penalty and these locations are filled to brim with loot, which you can then trade, trivializing the game, but that's why I tend to give myself a self-imposed challenge to not abuse that fact. Story/character-wise, Christ, this is the only game off the top of my head that has us play as civilians during the war. I love how you'll have to genuinely consider stealing or even killing other civilians for the sake of your own survival (unless, again, you know how to clear bandit hideouts), the game often puts you into such tough spots. How much charity can you afford? How much are you willing to risk? Also, the majority of the characters have some niche, they differ enough to offer unique approach to the exact same gameplay loop. So on a Bruno/Roman/Arica run, you'll need to play to play into your strengths, so steal and fight, since this is what your characters excel at and all are rather indifferent to being cruel, while on a Boris/Emilia/Marin run, you'll rely on Boris, easily depressed, but an excellent scavanger. The DLCs are mostly great as well, forsaking some gameplay elements to offer a unique experience when compared to the basegame. So, to summarise, absolutely lovely gameplay, absolutely lovely atmosphere, absolutely lovely story and characters, it's worth every penny. And mind you, I've got 178 hours and I'm not even done with all the basegame stories, this game has hundreds of hours of potential, depending on your creativity to do custom runs.

What can I say.... this was the first time i ever played a game like this. (more into starcraft, total war , warhammer, fps etc games) and was absolutely instantly hooked. Its a playstyle I never encountered before but easily able too figure out. The style of choosing too be good or evil, or too steal/not steal, kill/leave alive. all the while has base building in it also. I highly suggest watching gameplay online because reading another persons review on it can only go so far. but IMO buy it. And again IMO only if its on sale....but that has nothing too do with the game. That is my preference towards all games. Solid 8/10 I'd like too see more areas but I doubt this game will go any further since its been released in 2014, cool mods also i suggest checking those out because it fixes stuff like how much of the same item you can carry which comes in very handy when you go on raids, and also more weapons and things too create gives it more diversity and replay ability. -FIN