Single-player games like Through the Darkest of Times
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Through the Darkest of Times, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Beholder 2
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Influence, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Crisis in the Kremlin
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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The Newspapers of the day
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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Organs Please
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Imperator: Rome
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Beholder 3
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Through the Darkest of Times.
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
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The Darkest Files
Single-player alternative to Through the Darkest of Times — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through the Darkest of Times.
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?