Because of donations for Ukraine: Anti-war game more popular than in years

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The Polish 11 Bit Studios donate the proceeds from the anti-war game This War of Mine to the Red Cross in Ukraine. Now player numbers are the highest they have been in years.

In the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine, some game developers – especially from Eastern Europe – had recently asked for donations or otherwise shown solidarity with the Ukrainians.

The Polish developer and publisher 11 Bit Studios had also announced its own campaign on Twitter: all proceeds from the anti-war game This War of Mine were to be donated to the Red Cross in Ukraine for seven days. As a result, player numbers are now higher than they have been in years.

Success of the fundraising campaign

The last time This War of Mine achieved similarly high player numbers was in 2017.
The last time This War of Mine achieved similarly high player numbers was in 2017.

Since the announcement by 11 Bit Studios on 24 February, the number of players of This War of Mine multiplied within a very short period of time, as can be seen well from the figures of (SteamDB) above.

Peaks in the range of over 2,000 players thus became peaks of over 9,000 players. This mark was last cracked at the all-time peak of 9,503 players in 2017.

This is This War of Mine: In the survival game from 2014, you experience the battle for a besieged city from the perspective of a group of civilians. Your task is to protect these people from the dangers of war

On 25 February, 11 Bit Studios reported an initial success of the fundraising campaign, saying that $160,000 had been raised for victims of the war in the first 24 hours.

The developers have not yet announced how much more money was donated via the purchase of the game in the past few days. However, other studios have joined 11 Bit Studios’ initiative.

For example, ALL iN! GAMES will donate their proceeds from the sale of Chernobylite and Paradise Lost to the Red Cross for one week. RedDeer.Games are proceeding in the same way with the proceeds from their game Cyber Protocol.

One of the other consequences of the war in Ukraine is the halting of hardware shipments to Russia from major manufacturers such as AMD and Intel.

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