It Takes a War

I recommend this game wholeheartedly, but unfortunately I can't say anything about it without spoiling something or other. It's cheap. Just buy it and play it. You won't regret it.

As a game, It Takes a War isn't anything special. As a message, it is special. It conveys a message I don't think a lot of people ever think about, but probably should, and just because of that (and the <1hr game time), I recommend it.

[b]TL;DP[/b]: These guys all suck at this knockoff early 2000s shooter. No wonder their friend group sucks. On a more serious note, the game is - imo, just fine? $5 is an okay asking price for what it is, but I've seen it get mentioned on Youtube pretty often. The end result is less impressive than the hype gives it. The overall message [i]is[/i] relatable, but the older I am the less [spoiler]matter like people having different activities with friends that aren't me[/spoiler] messes with me. I can see the story hitting home more for certain people though, and I think it does an okay job of presenting that. At the end of the day though, there gameplay is uh...pretty bad. It's clearly supposed to be like, but it would be nice for that to be enjoyable. I'm giving it a recommended rating, since it's unique in the approach. A couple moments made me go "oh, that's really cool," but it doesn't go much further than that. Since it's unique, does what it wants well enough, and is cheap? Doesn't do enough wrong to suggest not playing it.

genuinely beautiful [spoiler] i love this game as the conflict between people, as someone who has been through very similar conflict and stuff, i espically like sophie/soph33, i see myself in her, and we both have OCD and take sitraline. beatiful game, it almost made me cry, and the cherry on top being the whole goldsrc/source style, as someone who mods for those engines, and has nostalgia, it made it feel a lot more, personal(?), amazing game. [/spoiler]

I liked it. It's the same genre as The Stanley Parable and The Corridor.

Without saying too much about the game, because it is absolutely best to go in blind if you can like I did, I actually don't think a game has hit me so hard in the feels unexpectedly before. This really isn't a game at its core, it's very much an experience and a genuinely beautiful, yet haunting one at that. 10/10 from me

I dont get the point of playing a very bad singleplayer shooter that wants to simulate a online experience when .. i could just play online? and have real interactions? Well, gameplay / gunplay is 2/10. Not fun, lags etc. Bots will always be edgelords in some way and talk absolute AI trash. The only thing i found funny was the speech recognition (voice to text) works quite well in english. (other languages wont work at all) but thats it. would not recommend