
Graphics! Guns! Glory! Get ready to drop into a devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield as you and your team take on a relentless foe. It Takes a War presents a new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre.
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.14/day in the week to Aug 31 → 2.14/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.2/day in the week to Jul 20 → 4.17/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

From the creator of THE CORRIDOR comes It Takes a War - a team-based shooter with VISCERAL gunplay and RELENTLESS action. Throw yourself into RELENTLESSLY VISCERAL combat where survival is entirely dependent on communication.
There is no 'i' in 'team', but there is in VICTORY!
If possible, we recommend making sure you have enough time to play a full It Takes a War game in one session as not to disappoint your teammates. A single play of It Takes a War consists of around 45-60 minutes of playtime.

A devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield. You won't believe your eyes (or ears)!

Define your playstyle via one of three totally unique combat classes - play your way!

Revolutionary 'Voice Chat' allows you to connect with your team in real-time, sharing intel and strategies on the fly. OVER!

Ultra Realism - cutting edge graphics will transport you to the frontlines of battle... and beyond!
Realistic weapons - take down a well-armed foe with an assortment of very nice and very real-looking guns!
Communication is key - connect with your team in real-time via 'Voice Chat'!
Pure Combat - absolutely nothing under the surface to distract from VISCERAL TACTICAL ACTION!

Note: No generative AI was used in the making of this game or its associated assets.
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Reviews
Themes across 187 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
This game with either strike the deepest chord within you, and rip it straight out, or be a complete miss. I am of the former. To me, this game was heart wrenching, profound, personal, and reflective of my own life. Seeing my online life materialized in this short game melted my heart. I have been in the shoes and minds of each of the main characters at least one point in my life, if not hundreds of times. To keep this review as spoiler free as possible, play this game if you grew up with the internet, if you have had bad experiences with people on the internet, and if you have grown from them. For the developer: please keep making more games. I love this game, and will be eagerly awaiting your next release.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 187 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Holy Hell I was not expecting the game to use my Steam Friends to talk to me. When the game "Crashed" I thought it was bugged until I heard the knocking which made me scared a bit. I don't know what this mean but I'll be sure to watch Youtube Videos Explaining what the happened. TDLR this game is good. Edit: Also I felt like a Dynamic NPC from the Interloper ARG due to the overall presentation.
Didn't expect to be crying tonight
Awesome tactical shooter! Go ahead and give it a try. [spoiler] Thank you for this message. That was something I really needed in my life right now, especially in dealing with the strife associated with the parasocial aspects of an online... friend group. The student's room hit the closest to home and the community theatre bit was saddening. The human experience truly is a complicated one and this online simulacrum only seems to skew it further and distance our very understanding of it. Regardless, I think that this was a the wake up call which I truly needed to lessen my attachment to the online "social" sphere both within video games and without. Patterns were meant to be broken. Maybe I will live to my 70s? Surely that is enough time to come to terms with the individual plight of this existence. [/spoiler]
Hubby told me to play this game and they'd play it with me/be with me. Said it was a counter strike clone (which I hate) and I was very disgruntled the entire time until everything started. Wonderful storytelling and a good core message I think a lot of people don't always consider when it comes to your friendships. 10/10
Good game can complete it and have plenty of time to refund if you wish. Doesn't matter anyway, it's a 6 dollar game and well worth it
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