
Again, the intent here is to make the game available as a resource to teachers and students. Now, they know: it’s free to download from the Polish government’s website. Until now, it hasn’t been clear how players would be able to access it.


Its addition followed a 2019 campaign to get the game added to the Polish curriculum which ended with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki adding it to the reading list for the 2020/21 academic year. At the time, the game has been added to the official reading list for Polish schools, becoming the first video game to receive this kind of recognition. The first part of this story originally appeared in a report from in 2020. The government of Poland is making 11 Bit Studios’ anti-war indie This War of Mine available as a free download to Polish students and educators.
