About the Game
Dark times mean fear and risks. The risk of being caught by patrolling National Socialists, who are 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.
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.

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
Screenshots
13 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- ‘Political Dispute’: improved condition check, which now considers the political leanings of group members and the player
- Arrests: fixed a bug which occurred if a character was arrested for the third time in the last week of a chapter
- Tutorials: added Tutorial for Contacts, fixed minor visual issues
- Leader-Missions: 1-8 grand a Contact reward which is also visible on the planning screen
- Added member events for member dying on mission
- Support Widescreen resolutions (21:9)
- Prevent the game to start in unsupported resolutions.
- Graphical and layout improvements of many scenes
- Drag & Drop: the mouse cursor sometimes didn’t reappear after dropping elements
- Epilogue: the last part of the epilogue is now also shown after the outro
- Member Events: fixed bugs with several conditions and follow ups
- Newspapers: replaced the German chapter newspapers from 1936 on with underground or smuggled foreign newspapers or flyers dropped by the allied forces - it is now more understandable that the weekly news are not Nazi propaganda or displayed in Nazi-Germany
- Disruptions: enforcing now increases the chance of all outcomes except fail, instead of only increasing the chance to be seen
- Disruptions: fixed bug which generally doubled the chance to be seen instead of other outcomes
- Epilogue: Fixed an issue where the epilogue for characters could include historical inaccuracies
- Added new Character parts
- Testimony missions aren't limited to three weeks anymore
- Heat reducing missions grant less morale
- Resistance Mode: normal contacts, buying regular items, collecting money and regular gain supporter missions grant less morale
- All Modes: free partner and free member missions grant less morale
- Districts: fixed issue with persisting thread levels between chapters
- Epilogues: fixed several issues in German and English texts
- Books: ‘Smuggle Books’ grants more books, ‘Distribute Books’ needs less
- Build Fire Device: now only needs two gasoline tanks
- Replaced & added new location pictures
- Fixed an issue where choice option texts become invisible when changing the game resolution while they’re visible.
- Fixed an issue where you could open the mission lifetime tooltip through other UI elements
- Fixed an issue where missions are not locked properly when switching chapters
- Fixed an issue where a contact could be marked as "usable" even though the conditions are not met anymore after using a different contact
- Chapter 2 headquarter - fixed an issue that name tags are half covered in headquarter member events
- Now updating “settings.json” after using auto save to autosave the user settings.
- Fixed an issue where the player got wrong epilogue texts when he was imprisoned too often
- Polished bombing scene: fixed sorting issues and fixed & added animations (bike animation takes longer now, boy’s head wiggles now and he is blinking now), edited and replaced the airraid boy’s head, fixed Peter’s head in explosion scene
- Replaced the old cafe background with a new one and fixed overlap issue
- Fixed an Issue, where when deleting Save Games, going into the folder view of a Story Save Game and then closing it again lead into some Save Games not being displayed in the Load Save Game Menu until the player re enters it again
- German: flipped delete save confirm texts
- Fixed historical error in the prologue of Chapter 3, where the text said the UK declared war on Germany after France was occupied, when in fact UK declared war on Germany after Poland was attacked
- Fixed getting coal instead of losing it in FATHER without Food event in Chapter 4
- Fixed missing sentence in historical event The Camp
- Fixed an issue where selecting "Offer 50 marks.." would not remove any money during the Member Event: Got Fired Because Communist in Chapter 1
- Fixed an issue where the tutorial deactivate toggle inside the tutorial screen is not getting updated properly when reenabling the tutorials inside the option menu.
- Moved member’s head in cafe scene, so the body does not lay over their head.
- Fixed 2 Mission markers in Chapter 4 which shouldn’t be visible without the corresponding member event happening before.
- Fixed an issue in the English localisation, where in the epilogue some sentences started with a lowercase he or she
- Option Screen now shows current Version’s Number
• Japanese: fixed token in news of 19. April 1933
• Audio Settings are now Stored in the Settings.json, and will be synced with SteamCloud
• Fix an issue where no Settings.json will be created when Cloud Settings are disabled
• Simplified Chinese: rebuild font atlas to include missing symbols from historical event Neighbors
• Fixed macros in free spouse of member action tooltips
• fixed chinese neighbors scene being in Japanese
• fixed typo in Credits Scene founded > funded
Current Release
Not available
System Requirements
How to Install
setup.exe
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
1.1 GB
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