Through the Darkest of Times takes you through the major events in history during World War II, and the missions and severity evolve with it. The same happens if you send members off on a mission too dangerous for their skillset, even if the reward too sweet to give up, and you may have to choose between standing your ground and fleeing if a Gestapo member notices you. Unfortunately, however, the more missions you go on, the more suspicion you also tend to generate – and the chances of arrest run even higher if the same resistance member is seen going against Hitler’s wishes more than once. Sending more than one person on a mission definitely makes the mission easier, and the more you go on missions the better your chances of finding things to ease the danger of them a bit as well as the chance to try and change history. The more missions you complete with your different resistance members, the more you can level up stats like empathy, literacy, strength, secrecy, and their ability to rally up more people with the anti-nazi propaganda. Need to talk to a band of forced laborers and convince them to join the resistance? Ah yes, Klaus the liberal anarchist with a background in mining will be the right man! Need to sneakily buy some paint and slap some subversive slogans on a school campus? Hilde the communist kindergarten teacher looks way too innocent to be doing such a thing, she’s perfect! After this, you get two more randomised team members with their own randomised traits that will help you in the different missions. You build your resistance group by creating your own character with some customisations like face shape, hairstyle, and some accessories. Imagine if The Sims and Papers, Please had a child during World War II, but with more monochrome. Hitler has been appointed chancellor of Germany, and you and your band of merry men and women will need to take on the Third Reich and try and change history.
This game starts out on 30 January 1933, when die Scheiße has just begun to hit der Ventilator in Berlin. This is a journey Through the (Other) Darkest of Times. It’s also not about our internet going down for like two hours.
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