Instead, they came back demanding food so I sent them packing. The kids haven’t given me anything in return for the meds. I went back to the old folks, but they were dead. Those kids need looking after, and the old people were living comfortably so they could afford to lose them. See, if I hadn’t done that, the mother may have died. Two kids just knocked at the door, asking for meds for their sick mother. Now he is moaning about how sad he is, and what a horrible thing that was to do. They don’t need all of them, right? I have more people, so our need is greater. Thankfully, I picked up meds earlier on so I didn’t think I needed them.but after searching the house, they have a ton of them. The man is pleading with him not to take his wife’s medicine. Marko has stumbled into the home of an old couple. Sleeping helps you heal quicker but leaves you vulnerable to raids. I assume the idea is to keep everyone alive? Searching the house is quite satisfying, even though the parts and items of junk I’m collecting don’t really have a purpose as yet. Bruno is a good cook, though, so that’s a win. It seems one of them is sick, most are hungry, and all are tired.

I literally had to click the different icons around the house to find out what they did, and to learn about the triad under my control.

It’s mostly monochrome with the odd tinge of colour, everything has gone to hell, and a mournful electric guitar takes care of the background music, ramping the feels up to eleven. I’m managing three people in a bombed out house in the fictional war-torn city of Pogoren. So when 11 bit studios decided to make 2014's This War of Mine available on Steam for free for a limited time, I decided it was an ideal opportunity to give it a go.only to find that it was already in my library. Still, as an objective journo it’s always best to experience something before, ahem, writing it off. I play games to get away from office work, so anything that resembles the day-to-day drudgery of real life just never appealed. I’ve never been a fan of management sims. Only the very best games will stand up to scrutiny today. Brutal Backlog is a semi-regular feature where the JDR team plough through some of the unplayed games on their shelves (both digital and physical), disregarding their age or the technical limitations of their era.

Guitar this war of mine