
These are the sort of choices that you are forced to make, and everything takes a toll on your characters both emotionally as well as physically.


When moving around you make noise and, at the start of the game, will most likely be unarmed, so you have two choices: do you go all Metal Gear and grab what you can, or do you boldly ransack the dwellings of others risking their potential violent response? Then there are the recriminations that come with having to hurt or even kill those whose only crime may be having some tinned food or component parts that you need. This is a perilous endeavour and one that will force you make some very tough calls. The scarcity of the resources leads to immediate trade-offs between whether you can find an adequate way to feed your people, concentrate on trying to make your house secure, or focus on providing ways for them to rest up and heal.īy the cover of night, one of your people can venture out on a mission to scavenge through the city for items that will help you stay alive. It can be tough right from the outset as you must juggle tasks such as gathering the pitiful resources from your randomised house and building essentials like a cooker, beds, heater, etc. The focus is on maintaining your hideout: crafting, trading, repairing the house, and taking care of the young. Everything you need has to be crafted, scavenged, bargained for, or looted, and there are two main phases of play: day and night.īy day you are confined to your house due to there being enemy snipers outside stopping you from leaving your refuge. Your quest for survival begins with nothing but a wrecked house for shelter, which operates as your base of operations. The 18-rated gameplay is brought to life with an immersive 2.5D charcoal-stylised aesthetic animated backgrounds are rich with the ongoing destruction that war brings and the motion captured characters are wonderfully brought to life on screen. Trying to survive until the ceasefire is everything here, and, perhaps more importantly, you may find out just what lengths you are prepared to go to in order to do so.

11 Bit Studios has created a heart-wrenching experience of a game, one that puts you in charge of a group of adults and children stuck in a scarily believable situation. Braving the sniper fire of Call of Duty-loving console players, anti-war-'em-up This War of Mine: The Little Ones brings the civilian side of conflict to the PlayStation 4.
