The War storyline..?

[Dox Mulder]

Im thinking about buying this game but I am very confused: What war is this? What country is this? Who are the rebels? What city was this?

[Marlmos]

its fictional

[Joba]

It totally doesn't matter. War never changes...

[Mad_House]

Originally posted by Joba:

It totally doesn't matter. War never changes...

Whoever said that quote, I declare war on them.

[Dox Mulder]

Ok...read this then anwser me: I know its about the citizens not the solider, its about survival and RP not about winning, But im just asking what is the fictional story what civil war is this?

[vmService]

It's fictional and based on siege of sarajevo

[TVMAN]

As far as I've encountered, the game never goes into great detail about the war itself. The city is the rebel-held capital, and the attacking forces are Government troops. The siege itself is the 'last stand' of the rebel forces. Considering that both sides are more than willing to open fire on your survivors, it's largely irrelevant to the survival of your group.

[The Phantom Raspberry Blower]

This.

Originally posted by MaT1g3R:

It's fictional and based on siege of sarajevo

[lateralus_o_negative]

You get snippets of lore from the radio etc about the conflict. But the fact that there is no narrative is actually kind of the point of the game.

The whole point of the game is that as a civilian your just trying to exist and survive. When your cold and starving why would you care about what side is gaining ground orwhich side has the most just cause. Honestly, when given the option of tuning the radio to find out whats going on with the war, all I'm interested in is seeing which location might be safe.

Then I just turn the dial back to classical music to forget about the family I stole from the previous night.

[Rogue Scientist]

http://this-war-of-mine.wikia.com/wiki/Ulraznavia,_Pogoren

The game takes place in a fictional city named Pogoren and doesn't offer any more details, so it isn't during any particular historical war.

The theme is survival in a bleak situation, not on the politics of the war, so you don't find out much more about what is going on. You're just playing civilians trying to survive - you're not soldiers or fighters, just survivors. To them it doesn't matter who is right or wrong, or even what the war is about. What matters is that every building in the city is ruined, food and supplies are running low, and there's no way out of the city. What matters is the kids who show up who need medicine, or the mechanic who needs food, none of which you can really afford to spare...

[B]

Officially there is barely any information about this fictional war, and I think the devs purposely made it that way.

But it is basically exactly parallel to the Siege of Sarajevo, just like Liberty City in GTA is basically New York City. Sniper Junction = Sniper Alley, etc. The Eastern European names, guns, the styles of the apartment buildings, the fact that it's a modern siege all make it quite obvious.