
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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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
If you stumble across this game, you should definitely play it, can't say much more than that.
At first, I thought that it's a subversive fourth-wall breaking satire of online gaming. But it's actually its own story, about regular people. Sort of like a stage play, in the sets created from things that are pretty familiar to us now, like game assets and CS rounds. I suggest you play it, it's small, dramatic, and has heart.
I liked it. A short, sweet, experience with a pretty positive message. The gameplay was pretty dull, but you're not really playing this for the shooty shooty bang bang side of things. The voice acting was nice, other games like simulacra have done the whole meta schtick better in my opinion, and the execution could have had a bit more nuance to it; it's like the story felt a little ham-fisted at times, but in my opinion I liked it, at least for the most part. However I can see the general message of the game being a hit or a miss for most people as it did feel a little preachy. Give this a try, buy it on a sale if you can.
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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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Beautiful game.
I was touched by this game. Thanks.
short and sweet with a good message
its short, its rough, its ugly, its important, its amazing 10/10
this game is so good its genuinely insane. it made me think about my friends in ways i never did before. I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone and everyone.
that was a very good, short game, but you have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up in such a manner that trully, youd have to know me better than i probably know mysel to understand, i was not ready. ♥♥♥♥ you Thomas, amazing game.
Nice Game. Just a nice little Story and a good message. Good Game for $5
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