It Takes a War

• Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.comBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

  Had a lovely afternoon reading this great little review, learning about a game I had never heard of, then playing said game. Games writing! It's good! (And so is "It Takes a War")

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• QWEAVEN UNIVERSE @qweave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

  2025 media thread... GO! i played IT TAKES A WAR, a game that falls into that increasingly familiar genre of "metanarrative based game that uses being a video game as a framing device." i liked it overall even if it is just a tiny bit clumsy in spots - i need more nice sub-hour long narrative games

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• cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

  I thought IT TAKES A WAR is a great little meta game about online friendship and FPS stuff. I think it is a little too "neat" in terms of the writing, so I'm not in love with it, but it does do some clever tricks and the final level is A+ fun. store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

  It's #WishlistWednesday & we've just announced It Takes a War - the new #indiegame from @freeze.ltd; a game that might resonate with anybody versed in the noughties era of online shooters... store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/... Share this, and we'll add you to a draw for 1 of 5 keys at launch! 🗝️

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

  thank you to @haleyfax.bsky.social and @jacobgeller.com for their hugely kind words about It Takes a War on this week's episode of the @minnmax.com show! a looot of the game was developed while listening to MinnMax so it's a lovely full circle moment for me - love the stuff they do over there 🙌

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• Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

  Games Journalists: In two days No Players Online, a meta-fictional spooky game about an "online" shooter is releasing on steam. In two days It Takes A War, a meta-fictional spooky game about an "online" shooter is releasing on steam. This is an indie Armageddon/Deep Impact situation.

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

  A big ol' HARK! 📣 Introducing It Takes a War, the new game from @freeze.ltd - the creative force behind THE CORRIDOR GRAPHICS! GUNS! GLORY! ITAW presents a new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre WISHLIST! store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/... Shares v appreciated 🙏 #indiegames

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

  There’s still a day left of Next Fest! There’s still time! 🕰️ The demo for It Takes a War is a short five minute prelude to the game, which serves as a training ground AND director’s commentary. Give it a whirl x store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/... #indiegames | #gamedev

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

  It Takes a War is OUT NOW on @itch.io If you've played the game on Steam, you'll realise why it's taken a little longer to bring to Itch - but after some bespoke updates and changes, the standalone version of ITAW is now available. TIME TO CONNECT 📶 pantaloon-io.itch.io/it-takes-a-war

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

  ICYMI, yesterday we launched It Takes a War - the new tactical team shooter (!?) from @freeze.ltd If the game has confused you (good, we've done our job) this review from @ripefly.bsky.social / @rogue.site hits lots of nails on lots of heads and is a fantastic piece www.rogue.site/editorials/i...

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Sep 20, 2025

  Graphics! Guns! Glory! It’s #screenshotsaturday and we’ve just announced the new game from @freeze.ltd, the creative force behind THE CORRIDOR. Introducing It Takes a War: a team-based shooter with VISCERAL gunplay and RELENTLESS action (and that’s all!) store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Oct 17, 2024

  My next mainline game “It Takes a War” on Steam Deck. I'll try to make it less blurry before release. It will drop in the first half of next year. Too many games coming out at the end of 2024 + I want a bit of extra time to make it perfect! 🙏

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

  A screenshot for #screenshotsaturday This is It Takes a War. A game about VISCERAL TACTICAL ACTION and absolutely nothing else at all, promise Something big dropping next week. Do a wishlist lest you risk missing out store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• 🔞fresh 90% lean ground twink🔞(3/4 comms) @vegashasfrozenover.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

  You guys should play: "It Takes A War" lowkey one of the most grounding soul crushing realizations a game has ever given me Might not apply to some, but it did hit me a really fucking hard

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• James O’Connor @jickle.netBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

  Wrote about @freeze.ltd’s It Takes A War for my column on @superjumpmagazine.com. I was pretty taken by this game! www.superjumpmagazine.com/wordplayer-i...

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

  Oh! And if you want to couple ITAW with another thematically-linked game, we're chuffed to be partnering with @panic.com for the Five A Side Bundle - a package bringing Despelote and It Takes a War under one unexpected roof. store.steampowered.com/bundle/61073...

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

  Ahead of Next Fest next week, the Demo for @freeze.ltd's upcoming team-based tactical shooter It Takes a War is OUT NOW! I say 'demo'. It's a short standalone experience, Director's Commentary and Training Ground for the full game all rolled into one. store.steampowered.com/app/4048280/...

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• So Many Games @somanygames.co.ukBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

  Get ready to drop into a devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield as you and your team take on a relentless foe in this new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre. Learn more on It Takes a War in our full review: somanygames.co.uk/review/it-ta...

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• pantaloon | ROLLA OUT OCT 13 🚨 @pantaloon.ioBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

  GOOD MORN. In case you missed it yesterday, we've just announced the new game from @freeze.ltd: It Takes a War. Watch the reveal trailer - it's made ENTIRELY of ACTUAL in-engine footage! 😍

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• sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.ioBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

  this one sneaks in at 456 reviews, but i gotta mention It Takes a War. solid voice performances and "old online multiplayer game lobby where you're party to a friend group argument" is an interesting framing for a story store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• al @looonar.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

  @freeze.ltd Hello, I just played It Takes A War, and I really enjoyed the game. I was wondering if it is possible that I could get the name of the end credits song, or where I can find it? Thank you for creating such a great game!

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• Emmett Watkins Jr @ejsponge61.comBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

  My ★★★½ review of It Takes a War (2025) on @infinitebacklog.net infinitebacklog.net/users/ejspon...

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• Nihil / Alexander @nihilnihilnihil.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

  5. It Takes A War A singleplayer story-based fps that's essentially set in a game of CSGO. The story is mostly delivered through other "players" talking to eachother in the in-game voice chat.

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• MegaRaphix @megaraphix.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

  196. It Takes a War [Video Game, 2025] 8/10 - Video games are such a cool medium man.

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

  Massive thank you to Danny and the team over at noclip_2 for shouting out It Takes a War (not to mention all these other brill looking demos). Can't wait for people to play the full game so I can actually talk about it properly...

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

  Hello everyone. I've made a five minute prelude demo to It Takes a War - it's completely new, nothing seen in the main game. Please give it a play and let me know what you think! Any positive Steam reviews on it would help massively ahead of Next Fest. store.steampowered.com/app/4048280/...

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

  Apologies for being fairly quiet recently, but for those interested I'm happy to report there should be news about "It Takes a War" within the next month or two. The game is very on track to release later this year. 🙏

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• Frame Right @kansamos.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

  Donut County, a short game, (try to buy on sale otherwise it’s a bit overpriced for it’s length), where you play as a hole in the ground that eats the world around you. It Takes a War, perfect if you want a game reminiscent of the GoldSrc era. Q-UP, amazing if you’ve ever played too much League.

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• Ultraviolet Combat 🏬⚔️ Mall Samurai VTuber @ultravioletcombat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

  Okay, was not feeling Dying Breed only a few missions in, so I'm going to switch gears to another game: It Takes A War!

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• Renne @yokoyamayasuko.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

  It Takes a War very silly stupid meta game kind of funny that most of it is just listening to british gamer group drama while playing a CS rip off like the point of the game is 'people online are all just humans and you can't possibly understand each and everyone's struggles'

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• umbra. @umbrapsv.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

  Really recommend that if you have 5 bucks to spare that you check out "It Takes A War" because its a really deeply psychological and philosophical game that hit me in the gut pretty hard when I played it. One of those games where it is relatable to everyone. store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• Jenny @drofficial.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

  I heard about It Takes a War from MinnMax, played today and it is definitely higher than 127!!! Great game. Thank you for making it.

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• Fantasmiko 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlyclaire.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

  3) It Takes a War Now this is a game that is better experienced with little to no information about it before going in, but if you are interested in seeing a story told through a Counter Strike multiplayer match, give this a try. store.steampowered.com/app/3919530?...

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• Parallax Abstraction @pxa.caBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

  Game #51 of 2025: It Takes A War by @pantaloon.io An emotional story about the fleetingness of human connection, told through a Counter-Strike 1.6 metaphor. Doesn't feel like it's really going anywhere meaningful until the back third and then hits like a truck. At least it did for me.

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• Vivien Taylor @vivientaylor.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

  It’s such a privilege to have played El in such a well reviewed game!- IT TAKES A WAR! Check it out!!!

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

  at launch, It Takes a War is going to be in a duo bundle with another fantastic game that released earlier this year. if you've not played it, I would highly recommend grabbing both at a DISCOUNTED RATE!

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• Thomas Mackinnon @freeze.ltdBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

  Steam Next Fest starts NOW and the It Takes a War demo is available to play as we speak! Check out the totally original, self-contained prelude to what's to come in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/4048280/...

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• Witchy Vulpix :3 💛🤍💜🖤🔞 @swiftthekobold.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

  I am even happy if a game is under an hour if it uses its time well. It Takes A War is a really REALLY good example of that. It takes 45 minutes to beat and it is a really interesting narrative.

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• PishPoshBaGosh - Comms open! @pishposhbagosh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

  This was a good one, if you want a good experience thats basically this as a (sort of) game, have you tried It Takes A War on steam? Can't recommend it enough especially if this touched you too

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• Toa @toanon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

  85. It Takes A War Okay for what it is. Not really a horror game even though it has clear horror elements, and I do think making it so you can't die unless scripted to kind of takes away from the immersion, but I did like the overall point the story made. store.steampowered.com/app/3919530/...

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• A Shark For Trouble @sweetshark.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2026

  - It Takes a War - @pantaloon.io - Steam Clearly a parody of Counter-Strike 1.6, but it is more than that. Yet another game you need to try without knowing much. I will say it did a fine job trying to mess with me in the end. - 8/10

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• Gamernews.it @GamerNewsitMastodon · Dec 23, 2025

  #ittakesawar #23dicembre In cerca di un titolo compatto ed originale? Seguiteci nella recensione di It Takes a War per PC https://www.gamernews.it/articoli/recensioni/recensione-it-takes-a-war-pc.php

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• Ixi @fluffyflash.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

  129. It Takes a War A game I played off of friend recommendation, and well I liked it! I'm not the target audience for this, but it's the first 3d game of it's style that I played. If you played this creator's previous work in "The Corridor", then you know what to expect but in a more serious vibe.

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• Choggles @detroitsentai.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

  if you have ~45 minutes and $5.99 USD to spare take a look at It Takes A War since its the only game I've played this year that I think did something this interesting.

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