Through the Darkest of Times

HandyGames

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

© HandyGames 2020

Ratings and reviews

I like this game a lot, but if I had any complaint, is that when you have a full group(five) and you try to confirm a mission, it's really difficult to hit"confirm" because of the profiles being located so closely to the mission confirmation. Also, losing inventory items, even through the different acts, is tiresome. 90% of the bigger missions you can't complete because you don't have the items. Not to mention it isn't very clear how to even attain items for certain missions. Glad it was $1.

This game was amazing! The art style took a minute to get used to, but it's completely beautiful as a game. It's dark and rich, full of the bitterness that all holocaust games should have. Those complaining about losing too much every run must not be playing correctly. Once I figured out the mechanics of the game, I was eager to restart to play it better! I hope this game has great replay value, as I'm about to replay it for fun.

Fantastic game, but the selection bug makes it almost unplayable. Sometimes if you try and proceed or cancel a mission the game will assume you want to click on a character instead of the prompt, and it's impossible to proceed without restarting the app. If that bug is fixed it's a 5 star game. Great story, good gameplay, horrible bug.

What's new

Updated target SDK to be compliant with the latest guidelines