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This War of Mine Reviews

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This War Of Mine: The Board Game is the tabletop adaptation of the award-winning video game that pictures the drama of civilians trapped in a war-torn city. You will enter this experience as a group of civilians trapped in a besieged and conflict-ridden city, enduring many hardships that often test the essence of humanity. During day time you will take shelter in a ruined tenement house, which you will care about and manage by: removing rubble, searching through various rooms (often behind barricaded doors), you will build beds, improvised workshops, stoves, tools, water filters, small animal traps, you will cultivate an improvised vegetable garden, fix the tenements’ shelled facilities, reinforce the security of your shelter and should winter come, you’ll try to keep it warm. Upon nightfall your main duties will consist of guarding your shelter and what little possessions you can accumulate against bandits and raiders. Those in your group fit for such a task will use the cover of the night to carefully explore dozens of the ever-changing locations scattered throughout the dangerous city in search of all the things that a person needs to survive (materials, food, meds, equipment, etc.). On your way you will meet tens of characters, each with a unique story (residents of the locations you visit, thieves, bandits, soldiers, war victims, refugees, neighbors, traders and members of local communities), each encounter is a potential, unique adventure. To guide you through all these events you will have the special SCRIPTS mechanism, responsible for implementing the deep and complex story and a coherent plot (each game will be unique and different than the previous). Your goal is to SURVIVE until the cessation of war hostilities. During your struggle as the survivors, you will experience dramas connected with making extremely difficult decisions and choices (you will have to face the consequences of your actions sooner or later in the playthrough). Survival itself will often prove not to be enough. The price each of you will decide to pay, might be too high in the final outcome. So the goal is really to survive in a way that will let you live on with the decisions you made. The EPILOGUES mechanism will kick in here. TWOM The Board Game features a multiplayer experience for up to 6 players, as well as a solo variant. You will be able to personify one of the well-known characters from the electronic version of the game and face hundreds of new challenges and difficult choices. The boardgame significantly broadens the original game’s universe and emphasises the depth of plot, yet its main focus will be on human interactions driven by survival instinct and group decision-making. The project aims to omit the usual boardgame threshold - TWOM the board game is an INSTANT PLAY game, with no need for reading the manual before starting the adventure. Experience the simulation of a struggle for survival as a group of civilians facing a blind and merciless war. In war, not everyone is a soldier. Ages 18+, 1-6 players, 45-120 minutes playing time.

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Posted 5 years ago
I bought the computer version of this when it first came out and the board game plays surprisingly the same. I haven't yet run into anything especially disturbing in the Book of Scripts yet, but I can already see it's a difficult game full of cruel twists!. For the price the quality of components is superb, I've payed a lot more for what is basically a box of A4 sheets of card, the graphics on the board are quite beautiful (the scene it depicts not so!) It's still a bit too early to give a final rating, but I like what i've seen so far!
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Posted 6 years ago
Excellent Coop game, easy to follow and play, just what I want in a game!
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Posted 6 years ago
A marvellous co operative game, which can be played solo or with several players. This War of Mine is a melancholy experience; it's a challenging game that evokes atmosphere - don't play this if you want something light or that won't make you think deeply about the subject. Otherwise, it's a game many should experience - just don't expect to win too often!
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Posted 7 years ago
Great game. Thematic, engaging and brutal. Tough to beat for sure so might not be for everyone. Excellent mechanics, components and board art. App works well and I await further features.
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Posted 7 years ago
This, in my opinion, is a game best played solo. Very atmospheric and immersive, but have to point out very dark and gloomy because of tackling very sensitive issues. You play as a group of survivors trapped in a war torn city where every decision can have a massive affect on the chances of survival and decisions are the mainstay of the game. From the very first moment of your game day, you are choosing where to allocate your group in order to perform jobs, gather, rest etc and all has an affect either positively or negatively and not always immediately apparent. I absolutely love this game, incredibly thematic and because the game can last a long while (in fact I believe the campaign is set over the last week of the fictional war) they have implemented a very easy save system so next time you want to play you can from where you last left the game. It is because the game is a long one that I suggest solo being best as factoring in lots of discussion between players (although this can be very enjoyable) will perhaps make this game too long to really enjoy properly. I did love the fact that the game is a set up and play game which works surprisingly well. The manual is set up like a journal so you learn as you play. There are a couple of niggly bits that are missing and not explained properly but can be forgiven as it wasn't hard to look up using the internet.
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Posted 7 years ago
Excellent multiplayer coop game with a dark and unsettling theme. Though this game is hard to describe as 'fun', I think it will be regarded as a landmark in gaming in years to come, for two reasons. Firstly the subject matter, set during a modern war, though never pinpointed in time and place, the players control a group of survivors, dealing with the daily grind of surving, dying of cold or illness are very real possibilities in this game. Secondly it has tied a fully fledged narrative boardgame like tales of the Arabian nights with a proper coop game where the decisions are meaningful. Few cons, game is long, is perhaps better solo than multiplayer and grim, not something you want to play all the time.... Now and again though, yes course.
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Posted 7 years ago