Every turn is one week and every chapter is covering a specific period of the Third Reich: Seizure of Power (1933), Peak (1936), War (1940/1941), Collapse (1944/1945). It's a game that aims to be historically accurate. You choose missions to advance your cause, each of which have different levels of risk and requires specific skills. While sessions of Battlefield V and Call of Duty WWII hardly count as thorough history lessons.
They say that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. You affect the story by choosing dialogue and making decisions. Though The Darkest Of Times is fine for a single playthrough, its heavy-handed, one-sided politics make for an eye-rolling, preachy experience. The story is told through text descriptions and animated scenes.
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There is an easier Story mode that offers multiple save points. Through the Darkest of Times tries not only to give a historical picture faithful, articulating the narrative with characters and facts that really happened, but also to create a small daily cross-section of the time, with a series of events and subplots to underline how terror, hatred and violence permeated every moment of the life of a German. If you fail you can only redo the last day. You can play Resistance mode where decisions are final and you can't revert to previous save files. 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. As the game advances week by week, 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. You are ordinary people, from Jews to Catholics and Communists to Patriots who simply can’t stand aside. You play the role of the leader of a small resistance group in 1930’s Berlin. With interactive drama, it tells the story and the struggles of average people living in the 3 rd Reich. The game's accurate enough to not let you change history. You plan actions of your group while at the same time try to balance the morale of your members, get resources needed for the actions and avoid getting caught by the. The game covers the entire time from Hitler’s seizure of power 1933 to Germany’s unconditional surrender 1945. As a player, you desperately want to know how things end for those characters. Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game, that lets you play a resistance group in Third Reich Berlin. Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that conveys the sombre mood of the dark period of history between January 1933 and May 1945. Through the Darkest of Times offers a chilling look at life in Nazi Germany and showcases how some people fought back, even as the dangers to them and loved ones increased exponentially.