This War of Mine receives my recommendation.

Such a beautiful looking game with quite a unique and grim art style it instantly drew me in aesthetically. Sound and music are well done and fitting for the scenes around you. All of this geared up to create a certain atmosphere which is amplified by the gameplay.

You start off with a number of people unable to escape a city gripped in civil war. Short on basics like food and water or luxuries such as coffee and cigarettes, threatened by neighbours who are equally as desperate and will resort to raiding former friends for anything to survive and facing certain doom should they run into rebels or the military forces besieging the city.

Split into two main phases, you will spend the day doing the best you can to ensure that your people are kept fed, watered and rested. Keep them informed of local events by constructing a radio, allow them to relax in an armchair with a good book and a heater stocked up with wood to survive the harsh winters, construct your own little herb garden and distillery to keep the liquor and cigarettes flowing... can you hold out until someone comes around with the antibiotics you need to save your friend or will their infection spread?

And by night, you'll become the raider or the raided. Take a fast runner or a someone that can carry a load of stuff into the elderly neighbours house and steal their food, break into a bombed out old house that's been abandoned for weeks or perhaps that old construction site down the road still has some electronic parts so you can grow your own food. Will the old man attack you when you steal his last morsel of food? Will there be a gang hanging around the old supermarket, raiding the last bits of salvageable material and will they point their guns in your direction? Will you have to kill to obtain those necessities?

Moral implications of your actions impact the individuals in the game. Some people can rationalise the stealing from a vulnerable person to ensure the survival of the group, other people will kill anyone that gets in the way of them obtaining what they need to survive... some people cannot cope with anyone in the group committing atrocities and will begin the deep, dark spiral into depression and mania...

The atmosphere generated by the cumination of mechanics and gameplay aspects wraps you up into the experience and you certainly care what happens to your people, and to others that are suffering in similar circumstances. The choices are yours to make and you benefit from or pay for them in measured amounts.

Each game isn't all that long but will provide you with a fair amount of gameplay. If it stopped there then you'll be pleasantly happy with your purchase and content for the outlay but you can create your own basic custom games and the Steam Workshop provides user made content which further expands the gameplay.

I encountered no obvious bugs during my time but did wish that there was a little more depth in some areas such as the night time or different starting houses (as there's only the one).

Buy it, enjoy it... It's worth it.

This War of Mine receives my recommendation. Such a beautiful looking game with quite a unique and grim art style it instantly drew me in aesthetically. Sound and music are well done and fitting for the scenes around you. All of this geared up to create a certain atmosphere which is amplified by the gameplay. You start off with a number of people unable to escape a city gripped in civil war. Short on basics like food and water or luxuries such as coffee and cigarettes, threatened by neighbours who are equally as desperate and will resort to raiding former friends for anything to survive and facing certain doom should they run into rebels or the military forces besieging the city. Split into two main phases, you will spend the day doing the best you can to ensure that your people are kept fed, watered and rested. Keep them informed of local events by constructing a radio, allow them to relax in an armchair with a good book and a heater stocked up with wood to survive the harsh winters, construct your own little herb garden and distillery to keep the liquor and cigarettes flowing... can you hold out until someone comes around with the antibiotics you need to save your friend or will their infection spread? And by night, you'll become the raider or the raided. Take a fast runner or a someone that can carry a load of stuff into the elderly neighbours house and steal their food, break into a bombed out old house that's been abandoned for weeks or perhaps that old construction site down the road still has some electronic parts so you can grow your own food. Will the old man attack you when you steal his last morsel of food? Will there be a gang hanging around the old supermarket, raiding the last bits of salvageable material and will they point their guns in your direction? Will you have to kill to obtain those necessities? Moral implications of your actions impact the individuals in the game. Some people can rationalise the stealing from a vulnerable person to ensure the survival of the group, other people will kill anyone that gets in the way of them obtaining what they need to survive... some people cannot cope with anyone in the group committing atrocities and will begin the deep, dark spiral into depression and mania... The atmosphere generated by the cumination of mechanics and gameplay aspects wraps you up into the experience and you certainly care what happens to your people, and to others that are suffering in similar circumstances. The choices are yours to make and you benefit from or pay for them in measured amounts. Each game isn't all that long but will provide you with a fair amount of gameplay. If it stopped there then you'll be pleasantly happy with your purchase and content for the outlay but you can create your own basic custom games and the Steam Workshop provides user made content which further expands the gameplay. I encountered no obvious bugs during my time but did wish that there was a little more depth in some areas such as the night time or different starting houses (as there's only the one). Buy it, enjoy it... It's worth it.