It’s a brave game that not only embraces failure as the key draw, but makes that failure an absolute certainty. It doesn’t help that the randomised characters are more flagrant fodder than fleshed-out friends. It’s toughness is necessary to the overall tone of the game, so it’s not that it’s needless, but when failure hits time and again, it dilutes empathy for the plight of the resistance just a little bit. It’s fair to say that, especially in my early hours with the game, WARSAW walked the line between keeping up the feeling of devastation and futility and being a bit repetitive and frustrating. Threaded between its turn-based battles are narrative choice scenarios that add an additional layer of player choice to the proceedings. You can easily get attached to particular soldiers, especially given their hopeless plight, and it’s a grim, sometimes upsetting thing when the sheer weight of the stacked odds engulfs them.
Squad-based strategy such as XCOM has made a big deal of the fact your soldiers are expendable whether you like it or not, but WARSAW takes that to a whole new level. While the Polish citizens lack much in the way of military training and must scrape by, picking up most of their equipment (and importantly, ammo) from dead comrades and the enemy, the Nazis are accurately shown to be a ruthless, death-dealing juggernaut with plentiful means of trampling over your pithy resistance.Īs a result, you’ll see a lot of death and failure, even when having relative success. WARSAW doesn’t hide all that much from the brutal reality of its subject matter.
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