It is the Polish version of the game though, so if you can’t read Polish then you probably won’t be able to play it. As GamesRadar noted however, it is DRM-free and does not appear to be region-locked, meaning technically anyone can grab it. Again, the intent here is to make the game available as a resource to teachers and students. Now, they know: it’s free to download from the Polish government’s website.
Until now, it hasn’t been clear how players would be able to access it. Its addition followed a 2019 campaign to get the game added to the Polish curriculum which ended with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki adding it to the reading list for the 2020/21 academic year. At the time, the game has been added to the official reading list for Polish schools, becoming the first video game to receive this kind of recognition.
The first part of this story originally appeared in a report from in 2020. The tone of the game and the fidelity in portraying the harsh realities make it a useful tool when talking to students about wars, their history and nature, as well as about ethics, psychology, the value of human dignity or human behavior in situations that directly threaten life”.The government of Poland is making 11 Bit Studios’ anti-war indie This War of Mine available as a free download to Polish students and educators.
“Telling the story through the player’s decisions helps you understand the atrocities to which civilians are exposed in armed conflict. Poland considers it a useful tool to understand the horrors of warAlthough every user can find a link to download the production of 11 bit Studios in Polish from the government portalthe page clarifies that is strictly prohibited share, resell, use commercially or publish on file sharing sites the contents of the survival video game provided.įor Poland, This War of Mine, in addition to showing pride in the strength of the local video game industry, is a highly recommended work for high school students for showing war in an unprecedented way in other arts. The government of the European country considers it a complementary work of great value for its educational system.Īlthough we already knew about the inclusion of This War of Mine among the recommendations of the Polish educational system, this week the government of the Eastern European country has gone a step further by allowing students and teachers to download the video game for free from an institutional website, with the aim of allowing the horrors of war to be taught in secondary language, ethics and social studies classes.
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