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Thank you for the game!

As a Ukrainian, I appreciate your support for Ukrainian children via charity. As for the game itself, I found it mechanically satisfying but shallow as an anti-war metaphor. It presents a cynical, misanthropic view on humanity, where war conflicts are seen as a natural extension of population growth and competition for resources. This is not the case in our modern reality when technologies already allow us to satisfy all of the basic needs of Earth's population and wars are primarily waged for profit and geopolitical benefits. 

It also doesn't help that mechanics of violence are forcibly imposed by the author as the only way of achieving the level's goal. That made the message extremely heavyhanded, as the author condemns the very behavior that they themselves incentivize. 

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Thanks for your thoughts Valeriy. I think you've got some valid points there.

Though I also think most games can be read in a variety of ways. The scarcity of the resources, for example, might be seen to be an Objective Truth, or it might be seen as a flawed perspective.

And while I do see the game as very heavy handed, I think it is reasonable to sometimes use heavy handed methods to critique heavy handed attrocities.

All of that being said, I also see the game as flawed in a variety of ways. But I hope it might still prompt some reflection--or at least add its voice to the outcry. Thanks for playing!

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Thank you for the reply! I appreciate your perspective and agree that some messages should be handed in as clearly as possible. I just don't think that I can agree with the message, at least the kind of message I've got from it.