10 Ingeniously Clever Video Games That Will Mess With Your Mind
5. This War Of Mine
Anyone who identifies as a gamer will at some point have played a game casting them in the role of a soldier in some fictional or historical conflict.
But what if you're playing a game set in the middle of a conflict, but are a civilian instead of a soldier, and you need to keep you and your family alive by any means necessary? This War of Mine is a beautifully subdued 2D survival game that asks that very question.
It confronts you with the kind of moral dilemmas rarely explored in games. If your family is hungry, are you prepared to steal the remaining food from a frail elderly couple to feed them? Will you approach strangers as people also looking to survive, or as potential adversaries who need to be killed for your own safety?
These kinds of calls are a daily occurrence in This War of Mine, leaving you feeling mentally and morally exhausted at the end of one of its permadeath runs.