Once the house is dry of goods though, you have to start searching other buildings. You can make them craft things like chairs, beds, and shovels, or make them forage the house for supplies. Your characters start off in an old abandoned building, waiting for your instruction.
However, as you can imagine, the tone is much darker. It actually plays very similarly to The Sims, in that you have a group of characters you control at once, instructing them to do things like cook and eat. This War of Mine, developed by 11 bit studios, is a war simulation game that has you playing as survivors and refugees of war, rather than the soldiers on the frontlines.