This War of Mine - Switch Lite Review

Hello and welcome to my review video of

this game that I like very much called

This War of Mine. I used to be very

addicted to this game and I've played

hundreds of hours of this game on my iPad,

and this is my first time playing it on

the Switch. So basically this game

is, it's kind of like a really depressing

version of The Sims. You have a house and

then you have survivors in the house And

the survivors get hungry and they get

depressed and they get tired. And

basically you have to keep them alive by

building things in the house to, to,

you know, provide things for them like

water and food and heating and

beds. It's taking a very long time to

load. So the story of the game is there's

a war happening. That's why it's called

This War of Mine. And you've got a few

survivors and they've found shelter

in this old house.

It's kind of like a 2D game because it's—

it shows you from the side, side view

camera angle. And during the day you have

to build stuff and make sure they're

fed. And then during the night, you go

scavenging in other buildings to try and

find supplies like medical supplies,

weapons, ammunition.

But these locations that you go to

scavenge in are quite dangerous. You could

die if there's hostile people there.

There's also interesting locations like an

army base and schools

and warehouses. Sometimes you can go to

someone's house and they'll still be in

the house, and then you can decide if you

want to rob them or if you want to not

rob them. If you rob them, then you get

loads of stuff. If you don't rob them,

um, then you get nothing. If you rob them,

then your characters will feel guilty and

they'll get really depressed. And they

might off themselves. Yeah, it's a

pretty grim game, but I like it because it

makes me feel less depressed about my own

life. Okay, so what do you have? You start

off with a random selection of characters,

and they all have different abilities.

Well, they all have the same abilities,

but they're slightly better at doing

different things. For example, this guy,

he's very good at running. He's He can run

faster than the other characters, and he's

slightly wounded. So we also have Bruno.

He's good at cooking, so he can make meals

that that satisfy

the other people for longer. And then you

have Marco. He's a skilled scavenger,

which means he can carry more. So what you

do on the first day is. You have to clear

all of the rubbish like this.

What happened? Oh, and then you get items

from the piles of rubbish. So there's

herbs and lockpicks, materials, water.

Where's X? So if you press X, you grab

everything. And what you do with the

materials is you can build stuff and—

yeah, you can build

stuff and you can also trade the items

with other people. It's kind of weird

controlling this because I used to play on

the iPad touchscreen and you just tapped

on the place you wanted to go, but on the

Switch the touchscreen doesn't work and

you have to use the controls to move them

around. It's a bit different.

So we can build a bed. Oh,

what happened?

How do I build it? Oh, I need wood. I

thought I had enough wood. Um, what do

I do? I haven't played this for ages.

You should build a shovel to get rid of

these piles, otherwise it takes ages, but

I don't think I have enough material to

build a shovel. And then you can

open these chests and there's stuff in

them.

It's a really exciting game.

Okay, it's not that exciting, but it is

kind of satisfying. And you do start

to care about your characters and you want

them to survive, and you start creating

this emotional bond with them, which is

quite fun. It's also really annoying when

they get killed because then you've lost

them forever.

Now what's this guy doing? So he's

slightly sick. That means we need medicine

or else he'll just get worse and worse.

Problem is we don't have a shovel, so I

have to get rid of all these mountains of

rubble by hand.

Yeah, I know it's not really

action-packed, I guess it's more like a

strategy game. You have to be careful

with your resources and you have to make

sure your guys don't get murdered.

Depression is kind of annoying because,

you know, you get tempted to just rob

people and kill other people and take

their stuff, but if you do that, the

characters get depressed because they're a

bunch of wusses. Wussies. And they don't

like killing.

Then they start crying and they, they stop

doing anything. They refuse to move.

But they're people, they're not soldiers.

That's the point. They're just regular

people and they're not trained for that

kind of stuff.

Not sure if you can hear it. I'll turn up

the volume. The first day

is kind of boring, you just have to gather

things.

The way you win this game is you have to

outlast the war, so if you last about 30

days then it will say the war has ended

and you've survived, congratulations.

Oh wow, this music brings me back. When

did I used to play it? I think it was— was

it before I got married? I think it was.

It was back when I was in England. I used

to play this a lot when my dad was alive.

Okay, what should we build? We need beds,

otherwise they won't be able to sleep. So

we've got enough wood to make beds. You

can just place them anywhere and then he

goes and builds it. And this guy can go

over here and pick this stuff up.

I think I prefer touchscreen for this game

because you used to be able to just tap on

the screen on the iPad. You could just tap

on the screen and they would go where you

tapped. You didn't have to keep pressing

down the movement button.

Sorry if I'm not very articulate and I'm

tripping on my words because I don't

really feel very good.

I don't know if I should talk about it.

It's supposed to be a game review. Well,

basically, me and my wife are probably

gonna get divorced.

And I'm in an Airbnb, as you can see.

And I'm not sure if I should make a video

explaining it on my main channel because

everyone's gonna say, oh, he's just faking

it again to get views. Kind of irritating.

It kind of sucks out the fun of the game

when— I mean, it sucks out the fun of

making videos when people just think

you're faking it all the time. Anyway, so

it's nighttime,

and what you have to do now is you have to

tell each member, each person, what to do.

So this guy can scavenge since he's a

skilled scavenger, and then this guy can

sleep because he's ill, and then this guy

can guard. If you don't have at least one

person guarding, then you get robbed and

they take your stuff. So let's go to the

abandoned cottage first, and you press X.

You can choose stuff you want to bring

with you in case you have weapons or

equipment, but we don't have anything, so

we'll just go like this.

My lips— that's awkward.

Anyway, so this is the scavenge mode.

It's a very dark game, so you've got this

stupid reflection of my face. Very sorry

about that.

What was I saying? Yeah, this is scavenger

mode during the nights, and then you can

break into places and then take their

This zone should be safe because it's the

first zone, so I don't think there's any

bad guys.

I guess I feel kind of guilty. My wife's

really upset, and we both know that

getting divorced and breaking up would

probably be the best for both of us, but

it's still sad.

Sometimes I feel like going back, just

saying sorry, but then the same thing

keeps happening. I feel bored because

nothing's happening. I just sit there.

Married life is nice because it's cozy and

comfy, but it's so boring because there's

no more adventure or excitement,

and every day is just the same, even

though it is nice.

It doesn't really feel like living

anymore. It just feels like you're waiting

to die.

And it's hard to make videos now because

nothing new happens and no one cares about

my opinions on things. It'd be great if my

channel wasn't about drama and I could

just get views by giving my opinion on

things, but my channel would just die if I

kept doing that. And I don't really feel

confident that I can get another, another

viral video to get a new audience. I would

love to have a new audience. My current

one is not very good. I've got 100K

subs, 90K of them don't even watch

anymore. Anyway,

this is a game review, not whinging about

my personal life. Should have brought a

shovel. This guy's still digging.

Try and do a zoom up, close up, so I can

show you the graphics. Graphics are pretty

basic, but they look nice. Has its

own artistic style.

Oh,

it's locked, so that was a complete waste

of time. Maybe there's something good up

here. The game gets really fun when you

get weapons. There's a military outpost

and there's loads of soldiers. One time I

managed to get a knife and kill one of the

soldiers and take his weapon before the

other soldiers even noticed, and I just

took them out one by one, took all of

their ammunition, all their weapons,

machine guns, and I managed to raid the

entire military base. They had loads of

rations and food and But

then my character got really depressed and

then took his own life, so it was a

complete waste of time. There's not really

much I can take here. I think I got a good

amount of food.

Oh, we should take the water. Water is

pretty important. You don't

have an infinite amount of space, so you

have to choose which

ones to take, which ones to drop. Sugar

isn't really important. Sugar is for

making— I don't know what it's made for,

used for making, actually. You can make

weird stuff like alcohol and cigarettes

and coffee. You don't really need them,

but it boosts the character's morale.

Makes them feel less depressed. Okay,

so we go back home and then we have a

brand new day to

Nice view of my nose.

Loading time is a bit slow.

So we got lots of stuff. We can start

improving the shelter.

What can we make?

We can make— oh,

we need a stove for cooking. I'll put that

in the kitchen. And then this guy can— he

can make,

I think, a second bed would be good. Put

that there. And then Bruno,

he's still sick.

He can make dinner for everyone when the

stove has finished being constructed.

Uh, we can make cooked food, and then

Marco can go back down. This is basically

the whole game. You scavenge, you get

materials, and then you come back home,

and then you build stuff. Improve your

shelter.

It might not be to everyone's tastes. I

quite enjoyed it. I don't really enjoy it

anymore because I played it too much. And

there's also temperature. In the winter,

you need to keep things warm.

He's hungry, slightly wounded, and tired.

So he can go up and— why didn't he make

it?

Oh, we need wood.

Hmm, so I think that's enough for the

video. In conclusion, it's like The Sims,

but there's also combat and a lot of

resource management. You might like this

game if you, you're into that. If you're

into lots of action, fast-paced stuff,

then you might not like it.

Now I have to think about what to do with

my life.