This War of Mine: The Little Ones Review (Andariel Halo)
Very obviously buggy. Almost right away you notice that certain things in the game just come to a stop as a result of having a child in the house, and not in any realistic way.
Sometimes for some reason, a survivor will freeze up and not move. This almost always happens as a result of them going to talk to a child and for some reason the action being interrupted or otherwise failing. They will be stuck wherever they are, unable to go anywhere or do anything until you end the day.
Sometimes for some reason, the child will freeze up and not move. Sometimes this is related to the above action, sometimes it will just happen out of nowhere.
As for the children themselves; they are neat in some cases, in that they initially are essentially a burden but can be taught to perform household tasks like cooking, making fuel and filters, and building their own toys. However that's basically all they can do. Despite the fact that other children regularly come to your house begging for things, and one of the DLC campaigns features a child scavenging for supplies, you cannot send children out for any reason, and you cannot teach them to use weapons for household defense.
As it stands, this would have been an average enough addition to the game if not for the bugs mentioned above. For that reason alone, it's not worth it.