At this year’s PAX South I was introduced to a video game called Beat Cop, a point and click adventure where you play a cop on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Someone has framed you for a crime you didn’t commit, so now as a parking enforcement officer you must find more clues and figure out who the real guilty party is. All while doing your day job of handing out tickets and stopping other violations.

The primary goal when making a new video game—whether it be an action game or horror game or fantasy game—is to make it entertaining above all other things. But that doesn’t mean that a game can’t have a very serious tone and be about something very real.

When it comes to games about war, usually the player steps into the boots of a soldier or some other bad ass who battles their way through swarms of enemies. Games like the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises are the first to come to mind. In a new game from Polish indie developer 11 bit studios, This War of Mine, things are much, much different.

In this game you play as innocent civilians stuck in the crossfire of a war being fought, and the goal is not to fight (unless necessary) but to survive. Continue reading for more information and to see a teaser trailer for the game.