Xbox Game Pass: 12 Massively Underrated Games You Must Play
4. This War Of Mine: The Little Ones
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Playing like an odd blend of The Sims, Don’t Starve and uh…war-torn Sarajevo. The player is put in charge of a gang of civilians holed up in a crumbling house and charged to survive the ongoing Bosnian War.
Several choices are left open, with your path towards group survival a constantly grey one; do you help an isolated mother fend off bandits for goodwill and bullets? Or do you rob a kindly neighbour, since your in dire need of food and medicine? Your morality is constantly put to the test, as relentless hard luck is thrown at your protagonists. It's easy to become bitter and ruthless, and harder to make kindly decisions.
Yet, through that excessive bleakness, there is a hope. As your group’s mental state breaks down, other elements become a priority over scavenging; the simple joy of a cigarette, or playing the guitar - or most moving - two people comforting and listening to each other. These things become just as vital as barricading walls or building weapons.
It's a sharply subversive take on the video game medium. Certainly, it's not for everyone, yet there's no denying it's a one-of-a-kind experience for gamers ready to go through the wringer.