A video game to board game adaptation, you play a band of survivors in the midst of a war as you try to eek out survival through a number of days by venturing out to gather supplies from nearby locations, building and repairing your living quarters and defending yourselves from the dangers that emerge in the night.
The game has a cycle of phases that combine into the passage of a day and in each game you perform a number of actions with each survivor to help keep everyone safe.
at its heart it's a pure survival game with resource management and a number of push your luck elements. but peppered through that are snippets of story from a large story book that are triggered by all sorts of things.
this is probably the hardest game I own and it hits the theme so well it's almost depressingly bleak in how it represents the horrors of life in situations like that. I'm almost loathe to suggest it in the current climate but honestly it might even hit a bit harder now and have an even bigger impact.
there's a number of event decks and randomisers to make each game unique as well as plenty of story elements to unearth so this has a ton of replayability but honestly I have to be in the right state of mind to play.
pros:
very interest gameplay mechanics
brutal storytelling
big challenge
This War of Mine
A video game to board game adaptation, you play a band of survivors in the midst of a war as you try to eek out survival through a number of days by venturing out to gather supplies from nearby locations, building and repairing your living quarters and defending yourselves from the dangers that emerge in the night.
The game has a cycle of phases that combine into the passage of a day and in each game you perform a number of actions with each survivor to help keep everyone safe.
at its heart it's a pure survival game with resource management and a number of push your luck elements. but peppered through that are snippets of story from a large story book that are triggered by all sorts of things.
this is probably the hardest game I own and it hits the theme so well it's almost depressingly bleak in how it represents the horrors of life in situations like that. I'm almost loathe to suggest it in the current climate but honestly it might even hit a bit harder now and have an even bigger impact.
there's a number of event decks and randomisers to make each game unique as well as plenty of story elements to unearth so this has a ton of replayability but honestly I have to be in the right state of mind to play.
pros:
very interest gameplay mechanics
brutal storytelling
big challenge
cons:
extremely dark
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