Through the Darkest of Times

HandyGames

About this game

Feel the immense weight of history. In 1933 Berlin, you must lead an underground resistance group of ordinary citizens against a ruthless fascist regime. Plan covert operations, navigate agonizing moral choices, and fight for survival in a world descending into darkness.

🏆 Nomination: BEST GAME "Game for Impact" - The Game Awards
🏆 Winner: "Best Serious Game" & "Best Family Game" - German Computer Game Award
🏆 Winner: "Best International Indie Game" - PGA Poznan

🕯️ A Fight for Survival
Dark times mean fear and risks. The risk of being caught by patrolling forces for publicly standing against their views. The risk of losing your life because you oppose the regime. You are not a super-soldier; you are an everyday hero—leading a coalition of Jews, Catholics, Communists, and Patriots who simply refuse to stand aside.

⚖️ Plan, Act, Stay Hidden
Your goal is to strike small but vital blows to the system. Spread the truth by dropping leaflets, paint defiant messages, gather intelligence, and recruit followers. Every action requires careful resource management and carries severe consequences. If the authorities uncover your network, your entire group faces grave danger.

🕰️ Experience Authentic History
Through the Darkest of Times is a narrative-driven historical strategy game. You will not single-handedly change the outcome of the war or prevent every atrocity, but you can do everything in your power to save innocent lives and disrupt the fascist machine. It is a powerful, emotional tribute to the real struggles of average people living in the 3rd Reich.

Key Features:
• Command the Resistance: Assign covert tasks, find trusted collaborators, and slowly weaken the regime without breaking cover.
• Meaningful Choices: Feel the heavy burden of leadership as you make impossible moral decisions that shape the fate of your members.
• 4 Intense Chapters: Experience the shifting political landscape and the escalating danger of the era.
• Striking Art Style: Immerse yourself in the somber, oppressive atmosphere through beautifully illustrated, expressionist scenes.
• Resource Management: Carefully balance your group's morale, funds, and secrecy to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo.

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

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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.

I love the premise, plot, design, and mechanics. It's a beautifully simple game (much like 80 Days). I would give it 5 stars if it weren't for glitches that render it basically unplayable. The 5th person in my group is in the way of the confirm button, so I can't schedule missions! If I click him, he gets bigger and bigger until he fills up the screen and I have to log out! Click response is also excruciatingly slow/unpredictable. Please, don't let these easy to fix issues kill your game.

The controls are horrible. The responses don't always reflect the choice made, especially when it's a critical choice. And twice now someone has been arrested after they died. Which drops morale twice. I get it that 'indie' games have glitches here and there, but not ones that completely degrade game play. And some objectives can't be achieved. They require things that never appear. I can't even imagine what Resistance Mode would be like if Story Mode is this difficult.

What’s new

- Fixed a crash by updating Unity
- Added full screen support on devices with Notch
- Fixed the broken later "i" when system language was set to Turkish
- Increased the target SDK to support the latest devices
- Activated Sidekick support
- Added 16 KB page size support