Through the Darkest of Times

4,2
922 reviews
50K+
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Rated for 16+
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About this game

🏆 German Computer Game Award “Best Serious Game”
🏆 German Computer Game Award “Best Family Game”
🏆 PGA Poznan “Best International Indie Game 2019”
🏆 Welcome to last week’s Best Indie Games 2018 “Best Story”
🏆 German Computer Game Award “Best Studio (Paintbucket Games)”
Nomination: BEST GAME in the category "Game for Impact" of The Game Awards

Dark times mean fear and risks. The risk to be caught by patrolling National Socialists, looking for people who publicly stand against their point of view. The risk of being beaten up or even killed by the German military because we‘re opposing the regime. The risk of losing everything, including our loved ones. This is how we live. This is how we try to survive. Through the darkest of times.

Plan, Act, Survive
You are the leader of a small resistance group in 1933’s Berlin, of ordinary people, from Jews to Catholics and Communists to Patriots who simply can’t stand aside. Your goal is to deal with small blows to the regime – dropping leaflets to spread awareness about what the Nazis are really up to among the people, painting messages on walls, sabotaging, gathering information and recruiting more followers. And all of that while staying undercover – if the regime’s forces learn about your group, the life of each member is in grave danger.



Experience history
Through the Darkest of Times is a historical resistance strategy game, focusing on conveying the somber mood of the period and the very real struggles of average people living in the 3rd Reich. Historical accuracy means that your small group of resistance fighters will not change the outcome of the war, nor will you prevent all of the Nazi’s atrocities, but you can certainly do everything in your power to save as many lives as you can and oppose the fascist system wherever possible.


Features:

● Experience the Darkest of Times in 4 chapters
● Fight for freedom, weaken the regime and lead your resistance group
● Plan activities, find collaborators and try not to get caught
● Feel the weight of responsibility as you make difficult decisions and face the dire consequences
● Beautifully illustrated expressionistic scenes and events

Supported languages: EN / DE / FR / ES / JP / RU / ZH-CN

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Updated on
26 Jun 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4,2
865 reviews
Radomir Balint
01 February 2025
This is a good, if somber, "history lesson" game. The writing is good, emotional impact is great, the strategic system also seems to be thoughtful... However the artistic execution is marred by, at times, irritating controls (other reviews go into details in this regard) and lags. There's also PC version, but if it came out first, this isn't a very well optimized port for phones. It's a pity... Getting this game for PC would be, I suppose, a better option.
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Family Lubashev
11 December 2024
Learning history while playing a game! How awesome it that?! In fact, I was looking forward to the between-mission cut scenes more then to the missions themselves. But even the missions was useful in seeing the mood of constantly being afraid of having operatives captured and worrying about keeping them out of sight. One gripe, just as everyone else here reported, it is frustrating to have UI think I am pushing on an operative instead of Cancel or Accept buttons. Fix this, please!
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Phillip Hall
17 April 2025
The game is fun and filled with emotion when worrying whether to help and risk your cause or just keep walking past. the reason for the two stars is due to the constant crashing after closing the app. force closing and clearing cache does not work. Am I expected to reinstall each tine i want to play?
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