This War Of Mine Is Free To Play On Steam Until April 8

If you could use a little darkness in your life, head over to Steam and download This War of Mine. It's free to play from now until April 8. The reason? Developer 11 Bit Studios is gearing up to release its next game, Frostpunk, which comes out later this month.

Be aware that This War of Mine isn't a no-strings-attached freebie. You can only play it from now through the weekend. If you want to keep playing after that, you can purchase it for its current sale price of $6.

This War of Mine isn't your typical war game. You play as a group of civilians struggling to survive in a war-torn city. To stay alive, you need to scavenge for food and medicine, while avoiding gun fire from soldiers and other civilians who are only looking out for themselves. You'll have to make some tough decisions along the way.

In our This War of Mine review, Justin Clark called it "an oppressively somber 2.5D version of The Sims, rendered in a beautiful, but portentous, constantly moving pencil art style." So it's probably not for everyone.

"Is this a game you want to play? No," the review concludes. "Is it a game anyone with a beating heart should play? Yes. A million times yes. It's a longform exercise in empathy, a sobering piece of work that fills in the blanks left when all we see of war are the headshots. It's a much-needed course correct in the current shoot-first-ask-questions-never gaming landscape that supposes war is won because one supreme bad guy caught a bullet through his brainstem. No: It's won when the people who lived under his boot get to go home."

If that sounds like your kind of game, you can download This War of Mine from Steam here.

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