Games like Through the Darkest of Times
If Through the Darkest of Times is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beholder 2, Influence, Inc. and Crisis in the Kremlin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its historical accuracy is meticulous, atmospheric and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Through the Darkest of Times: Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
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Steam players who put hours into Through the Darkest of Times also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Beholder 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Top pick for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Influence, Inc.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
Manage a digital influence agency in this strategy-simulation game about modern-day propaganda and advertising. Manipulate social media and the mainstream news to promote celebrities, market products, and even sway elections. Research, share, leak, and target your way to influence.
Crisis in the Kremlin
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Third-strongest match for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
The Newspapers of the day
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
In 1920s Gyeongseong, the pen is mightier than the sword, but your hand is trembling. As an editor-in-chief, arrange articles, dodge censorship, and manipulate public opinion. Will you wake the people with the truth or yield to survive? Your editorial choices will rewrite history.
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Ranked #5 for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
The confrontation between the East and the West is coming to an end, but not between East and West Germany. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Kohl have already decided...
Organs Please
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a dark mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Ranked #6 for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Ranked #7 for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Through the Darkest of Times.
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
Imperator: Rome
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Through the Darkest of Times.
Ranked #8 for Through the Darkest of Times fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Through the Darkest of Times.
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Through the Darkest of Times at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Darkest of Times.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Through the Darkest of Times.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Through the Darkest of Times on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Darkest of Times.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Through the Darkest of Times
- Does Through the Darkest of Times run on Steam Deck?
- Through the Darkest of Times is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Through the Darkest of Times cost?
- Through the Darkest of Times is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Through the Darkest of Times?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Through the Darkest of Times are Beholder 2, Influence, Inc., Crisis in the Kremlin.
- Who developed Through the Darkest of Times?
- Through the Darkest of Times was developed by Paintbucket Games and published by HandyGames.
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