In the crowded landscape of resource-management simulators, few titles dare to make the player genuinely uncomfortable. Frostpunk made you cold. This War of Mine made you desperate. But aims to make you broke, bureaucratic, and broken —all at once. With the rollout of -v0.57.0- , specifically the -HRelease- branch, the developer has signaled a radical shift away from casual survival towards hardcore economic entropy.
In the -HRelease-, repairing broken windows costs 2 Wood and 1 Plastic. However, leaving a window broken lowers the temperature by 1 degree but increases "External Access" by 15%. External Access allows for black market scavenging. The math now favors letting the slums breathe. Do not fix the glass; trade the air for scrap. Straitened Times -v0.57.0- -HRelease-
