In 2014, Polish sport developer 11 Bit Studios launched This War of Mine, a warfare sport that defied style conventions by putting gamers within the function of determined characters whose solely aim was to outlive. For the tenth anniversary of the sport’s launch, 11 Bit Studios is inviting gamers again to the sport with a brand new DLC, Overlook Celebrations, which is elevating cash for a number of charities.
This Struggle of Mine: Overlook Celebrations will be available on Steam on December 11, with all proceeds going to Struggle Youngster, Amnesty Worldwide, Liberty Ukraine, and Indie Video games Poland Basis. The DLC will place gamers in command of Katia, one of many supporting characters from the principle sport’s storyline. For this story, Katia is now a veteran warfare correspondent and an creator who’s trying to jot down about her experiences whereas chronicling the tragedies of wartime.
Katia’s world is shattered when she’s severely injured by a missile assault on the town of Pogoren. Nonetheless, Katia nonetheless must make some exhausting selections with a purpose to survive lengthy sufficient to be rescued, and she or he additionally must get better her misplaced ebook supplies earlier than they–and the tales they contain–are misplaced ceaselessly to the haze of warfare.
This is not the primary time that 11 Bit Studios has used This Struggle of Mine to rally gamers for an excellent trigger. In 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, 11 Bit Studios raised money for the Ukrainian Red Cross to assist deal with the victims of that warfare. Two years earlier, in 2020, This War of Mine was added to the curriculum of schools in Poland. And final yr, This Struggle of Mine joined the permanent video game collection on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork.
