It Takes a War

Lovely experience! For someone who had a party of people in CS:Source playing almost daily like this, it was kinda nostalgic and creepily accurate.

pretty good game, amazing narrative and ending, my only complaint is that it is shorter than it should be

This is a great game. its probably one of the most realistic shooter games i have played in a good 5 years.

i loved it :)

It Takes a War is impossible to review without spoilers, so if you're curious on what this game's about, it's a CS 1.6 clone which despite its multiplayer-like appearance is a singleplayer game. There's a story there and that is pretty much all I can say without ruining the entire experience for you. It's cheap and you can nab the dev's other game in a bundle which cost less than buying the game by itself (at least in my region). The game is fairly short, with a runtime of 40-60 minutes. If you're not keen on spending the money for such a short game, there's also a couple videos on Youtube talking about it. It Takes a War truly is something unique despite how it looks on the surface and I have nothing but high praise for Thomas Mackinnon. SPOILERS ON WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT: [spoiler] It Takes a War explores the fragility of online friendships and how easy it is for anonymity to obfuscate the fact that a real person is behind (almost) every screen. I genuinely like the approach of faking a multiplayer shooter here because most friend groups spend their time in competitive multiplayer games rather than party or co-op games, thus making it relate to more people. Throughout the ga…

I genuinely want to like this game, i really do, but its just too short for its price. It's a walking simulator with a linear story and no puzzles. the voice acting and writing is great, the idea is great, but everything else is very.. meh. I assume that's the idea, but its just not for me. It's too high a price for 40m of gameplay and no replayability. It's a lot less of a game and more of a movie disguised as a game. If you REALLY like psychological horror then buy it, its pretty good in its story, but nothing else.