Awaken Realms’ This War Of Mine Now Live On Kickstarter
May 10, 2016 by brennon
Awaken Realms have now launched their Kickstarter for This War Of Mine: The Board Game. We talked about this a while back when we looked at the massive diorama they had made for the game BUT now you can get stuck into the project...
This War Of Mine is a fantastic PC game where you get to play those survivors that try and make ends meet while in the midst of a war. No soldiers, no heroes, just survivors. Awaken Realms are looking to replicate that with this neat looking game.
Inside The Game
The game is packed with all sorts of goodies allowing you to play out this survival game on the tabletop. You can see some of the components below but as you can see above there's quite a lot to cover!
First up you get a set of characters for you to play as which are looking fantastically well detailed.
One of the neat things that I do like is that you get a nice organiser in the box - more games need these. Box control is key!
The board itself is great looking and is packed with little details. It mirrors the house from the video game nicely. Of course this also brings up a few more things about the game and how it plays...
- Events that will never repeat the same way
- Quick and easy set-up to get right into the game
- A meaningful story (1000 adventures!)
- High quality miniatures
- Save Game mechanic for when you run out of time during a session
- Aftereffect Mechanic meaning that your decisions will come back to haunt or help you
- Co-operative gameplay
- Survival mechanics – explore, negotiate, fight
- …and also a mobile app!
I mentioned this before and will do again. If anyone is a fan of Dead of Winter this looks like another game that fits into the same genre and should make for a great experience. You can see a Rahdo Runthrough of the game above showing you more of the game elements.
It's pretty insane just how much you get inside this game. It's a little bit like seeing those Fantasy Flight Games from a year or so ago where there was piles of cardboard and paper inside!
One of the neat things is the access to a mobile app as well which allows you to control the game a little and work alongside the game itself. I'm sure that the game doesn't need the app to work but it's nice to have an additional digital element.
Stretch Goals & Exclusives
Additionally you can also spend that little bit more and have an interesting looking exclusive edition of the game.
It comes with some neat additional game elements, a soundtrack (which is fun to have playing in the background), a diorama and plenty more. It could make for quite the pile of booty.
Additionally they have already shown off the stretch goals for those who back the game. You start with a Promo Card for Help the Children plus an alternative version of the board (which is awesome) and a new miniature for one of the characters.
What do you think so far?
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Not going to be able to afford this one during the campaign, but if it takes late pledges then I’m on it!
£8 worldwide shipping seems a little optimistic.
Yeah, I’m not seeing £8 getting anything to Brazil.
The company is located in Poland. If the box isn’t over 1kg, it should cover anything except Australia and Oceania, pricewise. I could ship 1kg pack to the US as registered mail for 5 pounds right now.
@poks it says on the shipping section of the KS page right next to the £8 cost that the game will weigh around 3kg.
Well..either they don’t expect to ship much outside of US/Europe, or they plan to subsidize the shipping to some degree, or they got an amazing deal with some delivery company I suppose?
I don’t think £8 will realistically cover their average shipping costs. A CMoN big box KS shipped to me from within the EU sets me back around £17-18. Even if they got a good deal I don’t see how it could be made that cheap. It may be that they’ve split the cost and hidden some of it in the pledge amount so it doesn’t seem like you’re adding much extra. That said, charging a fixed amount during the campaign and underestimating how much it will actually cost is how KS campaigns get into trouble. Robotech Tactics, both Call of… Read more »
I’m sold. The trailer on the KS, with Emir’s story is amazing.
I’ve backed it for now. I hope they have some other reviews lined up. I like Richard, but my wife cannot watch him because of his particular style (dithering).
And they just passed their funding goal.
I will check this out
Not interested in the game, but the miniatures look lovely for other games as generic survivors..
This is how you create a proper mature game.
Not by using cheap thrills of exposed flesh, but by making sure you understand what happens who are mere civillians in a war.
If you ever need to be reminded that war isn’t fun then this is definitely it.
The preview already shows that they have managed to get at the essence of the experience.
Couldn’t agree with you more. If anyone thinks that just soldiers fight wars, think again.
Civilians fight too, for survival. You just need to look at what is going on now in Syria and the rest of the Middle East, and the migrant crisis, to see this.
I wonder if this game could even be described as an “anti-wargame”
I’d say it is 100% anti war.
The computer game is sponsored by ‘War Child’ foundation …
It even had DLC that was basically a donation which unlocked a few non-essential bits of graphics hidden within the game.
This is the pc game it is based on :
http://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/
I feel odd about noticing this- but the first thing I saw was that the survivors are 75% male and 25% female. I’m a little disappointed there- this is one of the situations where the characters really ought to be 50/50. I mean, pretty much any citizen can be in this situation, right? And half of all humans are women in any country. But the representation is actually better than a lot of other games, so it isn’t like these guys are ‘the problem.’. They probably didn’t notice. I’m reminded of the Geena Davis advise about writing a crowd scene… Read more »
They have said that some of the figures to unlock are more females.
Oh, more than one? That’s good. At a glance, I thought that one out of the four stretch goal characters was going to be female (making the total 3 women and 8 men).
It’s odd, but I think the genre makes it somehow seem important. Maybe it is the way they’re doing so much else right that makes me want them to really land it on every front.
Just took another look, and it seems that all three of the revealed stretch goal characters are women.
If the forth one is also a woman, then that would bring the ratio exactly to 50/50. Even if the last one is a man, the issue isn’t worth bringing up.
I’m glad they’re doing that right.
This is the full list of characters within the computer game and the ‘little ones’ expansion (which includes kids … as if the grown ups didn’t suffer enough):
http://this-war-of-mine.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Characters
And yeah … the endings for the characters are seriously depressing.
I love the video game, so the concept of a board game is pretty exciting.
The pants of the minis are a bit big though.