Games You'll Love

Curated recommendations based on Through the Darkest of Times

Survive the Blackout
77% match

Survive the Blackout

Indie

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.

Making History II: The War of the World
73% match

Making History II: The War of the World

Indie

What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?

Secret Government
71% match

Secret Government

Indie

Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.

Twilight Struggle
71% match

Twilight Struggle

2D

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.

Frontline: Western Front
70% match

Frontline: Western Front

Indie

A tactical scale strategy game that invites the players to take command of the Allied or German forces in an epic struggle for the control of Western Europe during World War Two.

When the Darkness comes
70% match

When the Darkness comes

Indie

When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

Choose Wisely
69% match

Choose Wisely

Indie

This game features no specific hero. You, as the player, can decide who makes it out alive. Your actions determine the outcome of the game. In total there are 9 playable characters and more than 50 different paths.

Rifle Storm
67% match

Rifle Storm

Indie

A turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements. Build a powerful squad, explore randomly generated worlds, acquire almighty gadgets and capture the bunker!

War of Resistance
67% match

War of Resistance

2D

In this turn-based strategy game simulating the Second Sino-Japanese War, players will take on the role of the Communist forces, fighting against the Japanese army in the upcoming War of Resistance, and later, battling the Republic of China to win the Civil War.

Deep Sorrow
67% match

Deep Sorrow

Indie

Deep Sorrow is a horror/adventure game which leads you to a bunker and makes you feel desperate to get out.

Under: Depths of Fear
65% match

Under: Depths of Fear

Indie

Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.

Lost Technology
65% match

Lost Technology

Indie

Lost Technology is a simulation game in which over 100 characters comprising a total of 12 different factions battle to conquer each other’s territories. The faction chosen at the beginning will determine the conversations and events that occur throughout the game between the player and the other factions.

Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism
64% match

Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism

Singleplayer

Strategic Mind: Spectre of Communism is a (hi)story-driven turn-based strategy set in the WW2 period. It offers refined wargame mechanics, story-rich gameplay, and modern 3D graphics. Lead the USSR Armed forces staging the world Communist revolution. For Stalin! For the Motherland!

Curse of Darkness
64% match

Curse of Darkness

Indie

is a tense survival game in a post-apocalyptic world where the player has to collect parts of a crashed car to save himself while avoiding deadly monsters. Four different creatures roam the world, each with their own special abilities

Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages
64% match

Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages

Atmospheric

Dark Ages is a tactical digital board game set in the violent world of alternate Middle Ages. Vikings against war elephants, musketeers against the Mongol cavalry, ancient phalanx legions against crusaders; the deadliest armies in history clashing in bloody war.

Terminal Conflict
64% match

Terminal Conflict

2D

Touch the world with your fingertips! Your retro terminal awaits your command, for the balance of power, in this definitive Cold War strategy game. Here you belong; assert your leadership through turn based strategic tit-for-tat, on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Don't let it slip away!

The Dark Inside Me
64% match

The Dark Inside Me

Indie

Psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director based on dynamic scenario. The Dark Inside Me, is a very unique psychological horror adventure game from a horror movie director Akçay Karaazmak, based on dynamic interactive scenario.

Under The War
64% match

Under The War

Indie

Cities are ruled by extremist organizations, and here become closed cages. As a leader of a team, you not only need to find enough materials to make your team survive, but also to be responsible for each of your choices. Under your leadership, can your team escape from the city?

How Deep Is the Dark Water?
63% match

How Deep Is the Dark Water?

Indie

'How Deep Is the Dark Water?' is a literary computer game. The player, guided by a fleeing man, slowly wanders through memories and visions constructed by the context of the war and individual experiences.

Dark Places
63% match

Dark Places

Indie

Dark Places is a psychological single-player game set in a surreal world filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. Solve puzzles and try to survive.

The Darkest Files
63% match

The Darkest Files

Indie

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?

This War of Mine
63% match

This War of Mine

Indie

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.

Collapse: A Political Simulator
63% match

Collapse: A Political Simulator

Indie

is a grand strategy game that takes place in 1992-2004. You take lead of your own Party in the face of the total devastation of one of the fictional post-Soviet states in Europe. Try to realize your (or someone else's) political dreams in the shaky arena of this dilapidated situation.

INDUSTRIA
62% match

INDUSTRIA

Indie

INDUSTRIA is a first-person shooter that takes you from East Berlin into a parallel reality, shortly before the end of the Cold War. On the search for a missing work colleague, you decypher a dark past in a mysterious parallel dimension.

Faces of War
62% match

Faces of War

Action

Through the eyes of Allied, German and Russian squad leaders, experience the most immersive World War II time strategy game where each battle is played out and won differently based on your tactical choices.

Into The Depths
62% match

Into The Depths

Indie

Escape the lab and survive through dangerous monsters and military personnel

OverTime
61% match

OverTime

Indie

An adventure-RPG game with a set of fresh gameplay mechanics, inspired by cult classics such as Gothic game series.

Crisis in the Kremlin
61% match

Crisis in the Kremlin

Indie

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?

Dark Journey
61% match

Dark Journey

Action

The Dark Journey is a multiple ending hardcore survival horror game telling a story of a group of people who lost their way in the sea , ending on a mysterious dark island where they have to survive and find their way out

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
61% match

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

Indie

Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.

Difficult times
60% match

Difficult times

Casual

Monsters are attacking!

Time of Fury
60% match

Time of Fury

Strategy

Time of Fury takes you right into the European Theater of Operations. Strategic Command is the essence of winning the war and in Time of Fury the World War 2 is just huge, ideal for every strategy game fan.

Battle Time
60% match

Battle Time

Indie

Take a role of a true general of a real army. Join the battle, capture enemies’ castles and raise the power of your army. Lead your clan to the victory!

Going Deep
60% match

Going Deep

Action

Going Deep is a game played with a third-person view. Going Deep contains action and horror genres. using different materials you can craft/upgrade weapons, armors, knives, pouches, ammos and more

Dark Deity
60% match

Dark Deity

Indie

Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

Third Front: WWII
60% match

Third Front: WWII

Indie

Are you ready to rewrite history and take on the role of ruler of the nation? Show your knowledge of tactics and strategy, become the commander-in-chief of a huge army! Lead the troops of one of the three nations - the USSR, Germany and the Allies - and pave your way for each of them!

Close Combat: Cross of Iron
60% match

Close Combat: Cross of Iron

2D

In Close Combat: Cross of Iron you start off as a junior officer leading your men into battle in real-time, focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. Earn promotions as you deal with an unforgiving enemy. Fight and survive through the frozen winter, hot dusty summer and muddy autumn.

Chaos
60% match

Chaos

Indie

The life that we knew has changed, The Chaos took control of the streets. Experience a post-apocalyptic world where your survival skills are crucial.

Company of Heroes
59% match

Company of Heroes

Action

Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the 'Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition' page for additional user reviews.

Dark Mirror
59% match

Dark Mirror

Action

'Dark Mirror' provides a visually stunning and atmospheric experience. The dark and gloomy environments attract players to a deep world of mystery, while the sound design of the game also increases the tension and excitement.

Secrets of War
59% match

Secrets of War

Indie

Secrets of War is a top-down shooter with stealth elements set in World War II. Play through the campaign alone or with a friend in split-screen co-op. Discover the secrets of the Phoenix project and stop it before it turns the tides of war.

March of War
59% match

March of War

Indie

Lead your forces onto the battlefield in this competitive turn-based strategy game. Choose one of six unique factions, build your army from a diverse range of weaponry, and rise through the ranks as you fight for world domination. Join the online war!

A Second Before The War
58% match

A Second Before The War

Pixel Graphics

When humans have ruined themselves, the war has been started by... animals... Lead the penguins country and save the world in this simple decision-making strategy game. How about a little battle?

Winning Tactics
58% match

Winning Tactics

Casual

Your mission is to defend the castle, using its power to summon warriors at crucial moments of the battle

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom
58% match

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom

Singleplayer

Strategic Mind: Fight for Freedom is a history-driven turn-based strategy set in WW2. Take command of the Allied forces and protect your homeland and the whole of Europe from totalitarian madness. Form armies. Win battles. Change history.

From The Darkness
57% match

From The Darkness

Indie

From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.

Hard Times
57% match

Hard Times

Indie

Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.

Ad Infinitum
57% match

Ad Infinitum

Indie

When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?

Escape from GULAG
56% match

Escape from GULAG

Indie

'Escape from GULAG' is the maze game that increases difficulty as you progress through the levels.

Mysteries of Perception
55% match

Mysteries of Perception

2D

Mysteries of Perception is a detective game where you will see the same scene through the eyes of different characters. Uncover their secrets by analyzing all the clues. Switch perspectives and learn everything about the artifacts of the Distant and the deaths in their wake. Glory to the Stars!