The Caribou Trail
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.
90% of 678 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
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93% of 7,123 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9FreeДорога Жизни
Winter 1942. You drive a half-loaded GAZ-AA across frozen Lake Ladoga, carrying food to besieged Leningrad. Blizzards erase the road, the ice cracks, your engine can die far from shore, and enemy planes patrol the sky. The people you meet on the way depend on whether you stop. A short, sober story built from real accounts.
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New vision of the Great Patriotic War in the style of Blockade3D! New heroes, new adventures, dangerous tasks, crowds of enemies and a unique atmosphere - all this is Blockade War Stories!
Dark, Story-driven, Cinematic
71% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$6.99This War of Mine
You are not the soldier. You are the civilians hiding from him, in a shelled apartment with no food and snipers outside. It is bleak, tense and hard to put down.
Dark, Emotional, Story-driven
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Three visual novels about the first months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, told from the civilian side. You play a retired engineer in Hostomel, a teenager in occupied Bucha and a surgeon under siege in Mariupol, keeping the people around you alive. Every story is built from eyewitness accounts, and every choice costs something.
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87% of 1,088 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSvoboda 1945: Liberation
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
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98% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99Attentat 1942
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
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92% of 455 Steam reviews are positive$10.99Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
Four strangers and one brave dog get swept into World War I, and their fates keep crossing as they try to survive it. A hand-drawn comic book adventure of puzzles, sneaking and small acts of kindness in the trenches, with a story that stays with you long after the end.
Dark, Emotional, Story-driven
95% of 24,706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$3.74Bright Lights of Svetlov
A short, quiet story about a Soviet family in the mid 1980s, told through the small routines of their flat: hanging shelves, making soup, watering the plants. The daily chores feel ordinary until the story underneath them turns out to be anything but. One evening, about 90 minutes, and an ending that stays with you.
Dark, Emotional, Story-driven
92% of 1,334 Steam reviews are positive$4.99WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes
A turn-based tactical RPG about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. You lead a small band of insurgents through 63 days of fighting they cannot win, scavenging weapons, managing scarce ammunition and trying to keep your people alive. Hand-drawn, grim and historically grounded, it is a fight for survival, not victory.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
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My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
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92% of 633 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
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Crisis: The Third Way
As a junior sergeant in a broken post-war republic, your choices steer the country between Europe, China or going it alone, across ten endings.
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Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
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IZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
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Torn Away
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo.
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Ukraine War Stories
Play as civilians trapped by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, in three visual novels based on eyewitness accounts.
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Bright Lights of Svetlov
Live the daily routine of a Soviet family in a small industrial town, and find out what happened to them.
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Svoboda 1945: Liberation
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Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship.
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Raid On Taihoku is an adventure game with the backdrop of WW2 Taiwan.
83% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Martial Law
Poland, December 1981. Martial law is on, the shelves are bare, and Christmas Eve is tomorrow.
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