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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.

One of the most popular roguelikes of all time has finally made it to Steam. There's a reason why ADOM and ToME4 usually fight it out for #1 and #2 on the Roguelike of the Year awards and that's because they are both bloody good and worth your cash.

ADOM is one of the most challenging games I have encountered. The mechanics are deep and rewarding for those that play and discover. Death, like in any real roguelike, is common even for the experienced player and there's a major sense of satisfaction when you discover a new trick, enter a new dungeon or simply cave in the head of some nasty monster that has taken you all of your ammo, your power points and left you barely functional.

I started my journey back in 1995 on the Amiga playing this game made up of @ signs and & signs and wondering how such a bland, simple looking game could ever hope to hold my attention. 20 years on, new content has been added and colourful tiles presenting a much nicer GUI have arrived.

And one piece of advice.... never EVER eat a kobold... it's like Montezuma's revenge (wait, you might meet him) only worse!!!

Reasonably simple hex combat game presented in a cheerful art style and with humorous storyline.

Some RPG elements such as traits, abilities and summons are earned through rewards for completing missions.

For the price, a very entertaining little game.

Shares some similarities with the Braveland series in general art style and is slightly more complex than that series.

Highly recommended.

A very dark atmosphere, outlined by one of the boldest and strongest intros I have seen from an indie game and even eclipsing the general trash we get nowadays, and backed up by a team of Devs whom have been very active in the forums since the Kickstarters had access.

The art style suits the game to a tee. It's dark, it's not particularly creepy but it's quite harrowing. The narration and sound on top of that lead to a feeling of dread and despair. Characters come up with their feelings and opinions often which adds to the atmosphere and the tension.

Psychological impact on characters has rarely been implemented in games other than cutscenes and then often they're not influenced by the choices you make. Each step you take can lead to increased stress being put on the minds of mere mortals whom are facing down spawns of the depths of Hell itself. Are they going to crack? Will they develop bad habits? Or will your heroes stand up and be counted, rebuking the dark and standing strong in the face of danger? Either way they may need to visit the local brothel for de-stressing, pray to their Gods or simply be locked up in the sanitarium to cure them of their afflictions.

Deep, dark and deadly. Well worth the price of buying in, personally.