WARSAW

I recommend it, but only if you play the legacy version. The new, more linear and history-focused version is definitely more informative and historically-accurate, but the actual experience of playing it as a video game is really haphazard stripped down. Before the current version, Warsaw was a video game with all kinds of interesting historical aspects to be explored. Now, it's a historical visual novel with a game tacked on as something of an afterthought. Since it's free, there's no reason not to get it, but if you want to actually enjoy the playing experience beyond just the historical aspect, you'll have to go through the settings and select the legacy edition.

After playing for 14 hours, completing the story the first time, it was a very great game with a great story. Why?
1. The developers give fleshed out background in the codex and allow you to gather information about the historical background of the Uprising, battles, characters in the story, and the surrounding buildings. Which really immersed me in the story.
2. The dynamic PVE (Player vs. Environment). I really like turn-based games, especially ones set in WW2, and this one did not disappoint, the incredible use of stamina really made me think hard on what to do next and not spam certain moves.
3. The characters. The characters in the story are diverse and offer their own skill sets towards your team, and have backstories and even their own respective ending when they live at the end of the game.
4. For me, the game didn't feel repetitive at all, the various mission gave me fresh taste on the combat and setting of the game. Even if I'm facing the same enemies.
5. The "bosses" like the tank are challenging. You really have to think hard about how you approach battles like these.
6. Missions based on real events. I love how the developers use real events during the Uprising and craft the game around it. It made the story real and made me even immersed in it.
In conclusion, the way the developers made the game, adding backstory to the characters, the missions and the events in Warsaw before WW2, it really immersed me in the story. Even if you will lose in the end, the game made me want to fight to the end, that's how good it is. The bosses are great, the combat is great. My only gripe is that there is no "final" boss at the end, but I still appreciate how they decided to keep it historically accurate!
I highly recommend getting this game!
PS: To the people calling the "RISING: City of Heroes" version a "visual novel", it is just plain wrong. What they mean is, they stripped some the mechanics from the original version. Where you had to manage resources from different sectors of the city and choose between the missions.
That is not true, it is not a visual novel, the new version added cutscenes, voice acting, and it made the experience so much richer. Along with that, the combat mechanics are basically the same. Remember this, if you want to review a game, make sure you're saying the right thing.
Here is my recommendation:
The "WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes" version for a more cohesive story and less grueling management for resources.
The old "WARSAW" version for less story and more grueling management of resources. Make sure you keep the districts fighting!
Everyone has their preferences!

Great historical story, and gameplay is addictive.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☑ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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From my understanding Warsaw was originally a bit different of a game and was not free. However, I have yet to play the Legacy version, so I do not know to what extent the differences are. Once I do I will *update this review. Looking at the default game mode this is essentially an easier, less hardcore Darkest Dungeon. Playing on normal I found the game to be mostly easy enough to not really have to think about any strategies beyond keeping a medic and a varied number of units in the squad. I did not have any unit die during my first playthough. Although that is probably partly due to the medic's auto-heal passive skill, which seems extremely over-powered. The historical information seems exhaustive and is part of the reason I gave this game a try. Be prepared for a lot of reading.
Despite what some people are saying, and I understand it comes from a place of feeling cheated out of the old gameplay, this game is not a visual novel. The choices aspect of the game is not really integral to the gameplay and only results in minor changes to supplies or if you're unlucky the death of a character.
There is an annoying bug in the game where when you go to purchase skills for units you have to click on the outermost edge of the icon otherwise it will not register.
Overall, if you like the historical aspect, or are a fan of Darkest Dungeon style games but find them generally too difficult this is worth checking out. Although I would recommend you at least play on Challenging as Regular was far too easy. Also, since the current state of this game is free there is no reason not to check it out. Had it not been free it would have been harder to recommend.
*Update: It appears it is no longer possible to play the Legacy version of the game unless you bought the game before the current "RISING: City of Heroes" version. So that's a big bummer. I'll never know what it was like. Also another knock against the game. But since it is free you might as well try it.

This i FREE but over all Nice historical game to play. I have enjoyed playing it very much. It was nice to see how Warsaw Uprising took place, all historical documents, posters, newspapers and anecdotes from the Uprising. The game is a bit unusual to play, but overall very easy and satisfying. Especially, if all main characters survive and you get to see where each of them ended. Nice game, try it. It is totally FREE.

I bought this game when it simply called Warsaw. Later, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej) republished it for free under the name WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes.
The game covers the Warsaw Uprising in the summer of 1944 in which the polish resistance bravely tried to liberate the city from Nazi occupation. Sadly, this event, though commemorated every year in Poland, is not really well known in the rest of the world.
WARSAW RISING is heavily influenced in its design by Darkest Dungeon, even though it's really not as deep as the latter. But it fits exactly what it is trying to convey.
During the uprising, the fighters were outnumbered, undergeared, mostly untrained, facing a technologically superior enemy. The city was almost entirely wiped, countless polish people died, fighters and civilians. They fought alone, desperately expecting help from the Allies that never came besides a few drops from British planes. The Soviets stopped at the gates of the city and let them die, in a inhumane move in order to be able to later not liberate but conquer Poland.
Knowing this, the sometimes extreme difficulty of the game, the limitation to 4 members of your squad almost always facing double the amount of enemies, constant lack of ammunition, punishing injuries, etc. all participate in making the player feel the impossible mission that the Armia Krajowa was facing. When you lose a member, you really feel it on a gameplay perspective as they all have unique abilities, and you will feel the loss in the following fights.
Of course, the game is not without faults, it's actually not the best at what it does on a pure video game aspect, but it successfully does what it's really aiming for: pass on the memory of the events that transpired in the summer of 1944 in Poland. If you're not convinced on the sincerity of the approach, may I remind you that it's published for free by the institute in charge of education and archives on crimes of the Nazi administration in Poland during World War II. The game is filled with historical documents, newspapers, posters, pictures, biographies of people involved presenting them before the war, their role in the uprising and their life after (for so many, if they didn't die at the hands of the Nazis, they will later by the hands of the Soviets occupying the country).
The city of Warsaw was destroyed at 90% by the end of the uprising. The game reflects that by having the map and the loading screen evolve from a standing city to a field of ruins throughout the progression of the story.
Just like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is a game that aims mainly to serve as a medium for the duty of remembrance of the past.
Just like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes mainly copied the formula of another game that was best fitting its purpose.
Just like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes doesn't make a better or even equally good game as the one it copied.
Just like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, WARSAW RISING: City of Heroes is yet a very important game that should be played, so that we learn what we didn't know, and never forget.
Never again.