Games like Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
If Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hearts of Iron III, Victoria II and Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding ecosystem expands replayability, research investment feels meaningful and challenging. 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 Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game: Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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Hearts of Iron III
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Shares an epic mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Top pick for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
Victoria II
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Shares an epic mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Second-strongest match for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
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Shares an immersive mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Third-strongest match for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Supreme Ruler Ultimate
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Shares an epic mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Ranked #4 for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
Supreme Ruler 1936
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Shares an epic mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Ranked #5 for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Real-Time Strategy Game. Guide your nation through the most violent era in modern history. Play massive campaigns as one of the principal nations, set-piece scenarios of famous battles, or set your own victory condition and play as any nation in the world in Sandbox mode.
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
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Shares an immersive mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Ranked #6 for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
Unity of Command II
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Shares an immersive mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Ranked #7 for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
Making History: The Great War
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Shares an immersive mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Ranked #8 for Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
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Hearts of Iron IV
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Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Hearts of Iron III
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Shares an epic mood with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Reviewers of Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
KRUM - Edge Of Darkness
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Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~50% under Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
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A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
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Priced ~50% under Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~70% under Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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Frequently asked about Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
- Does Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game work on Steam Deck?
- Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game cost?
- Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game are Hearts of Iron III, Victoria II, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts.
- Who developed Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game?
- Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game was developed by Martin Ivanov and published by Paradox Interactive.
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