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7. Deciding To Rob An Elderly Couple In This War Of Mine

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While This War of Mine does have an overarching story, it's the little decisions and events that arise naturally in gameplay that leave the biggest impressions.

Being in charge of a group of people desperate to survive in a war-torn city, players have to constantly go on runs to gain vital resources that will ensure that they'll remain strong enough to fight another day.

One particular mission though has you breaking into a home in order to steal some supplies, only to realise that the people who own the house, a harmless old couple, are still inside.

You decide what to do next but it's most likely that you'll need the medicine they have stashed away, taking it from under the couple's noses and dooming them in the process.

It's not an overt 'moral choice' in the regular video game sense, and your decision has no impact on the story, but it'll certainly have an impact on how you view yourself as person afterwards.

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