During their excursions, the survivors, controlled by players, can encounter other NPC survivors of the war, who they can choose to assist by offering food or medicine, or rob and kill. At night, the player is given the opportunity to go out and search nearby areas for valuable resources to survive day by day. In the daytime, the survivors will have to stay inside because there are hostile snipers outside, thereby offering the player time to craft tools from gathered materials, trade, upgrade the shelter, cook food and heal the survivors. The player must maintain their characters' health, hunger, and mood levels until the declaration of a ceasefire, which occurs after a randomized duration.

Most of the characters under the player's control have no military background nor any kind of survival experience and will require constant intervention by the player in order to stay alive. The main goal of the game is to stay alive during the war with the tools and materials that the player can gather. This War of Mine is a survival-themed strategy game where the player controls a group of civilian survivors hiding inside a damaged house in the besieged fictional city of Pogoren, Graznavia. The game has received multiple DLCs and sold over 7 million units worldwide across multiple platforms. There are various endings for each character, depending on the decisions made in the game. Characters have to make many difficult decisions in order to survive everyday dangers. The game differs from most war-themed video games by focusing on the civilian experience of war rather than front line combat.

This War of Mine is a war survival video game developed and published by the Polish game development company 11 Bit Studios.

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