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It Takes a War

91% positive of 908 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Thomas Mackinnon. Published by Pantaloon.

About the game

Graphics! Guns! Glory! Get ready to drop into a devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield as you and your team take on a relentless foe. It Takes a War presents a new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre.

Tagged by players

  • Walking Simulator
  • Surreal
  • Team-Based
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Emotional
  • FPS
  • Story Rich
  • PvE
  • Atmospheric
  • War
  • Shooter
  • First-Person

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    This is a great game. its probably one of the most realistic shooter games i have played in a good 5 years.

    54 min played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    10/10 It Takes a War is a fake Counter-Strike clone that turns out to be a psychological horror story about online friendship — and it works because the shooter is deliberately bad. Thomas Mackinnon, the solo dev behind The Corridor, builds a janky six-versus-six tactical shooter that looks like a Counter-Strike 1.6 clone — and that’s the whole trick. The gunplay is intentionally rough: the shotgun hits like a wet…

    1 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I really want to like this because there's a lot good. But simply put, I don't think that the story the game is trying to tell is told as well as it needs to be. There's so many hanging threads that need tying up, and things that required clarifying for the conclusion the game has to be as emotionally deserved as the game wants. Such a good storytelling method though, I'd love a different game with a new story and…

    46 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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