Through the Darkest of Times for Android

I love this game already two days ago I got this game it’s very cool I think this is the best World War II game on the App Store

I love everything about the game! It truly is amazing. But when planning missions it take 15-20 tries to hit either “confirm” or “cancel” because the buttons are so close to the selectable players. It’s extremely frustrating and almost makes it unplayable on mobile.

This masterpiece doesn’t seem to have gotten nearly the attention it deserves. Far from just being a history lesson, it’s a deep and addictive strategy game. There are interesting decisions to make about risk versus reward and making the most of your characters’ strengths. It’s difficult but not too difficult. The gameplay seamlessly integrates with a story that illustrates everyday life at the time.

First things first— The story portion of the game is amazing, and really hits home the tragedy of the nazis, and it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time and really hit hard. Just simply wonderful, and the little moments present encapsulated a horror not easily understood with just detailed knowledge. Even though I am a WW2 Buff (made the mistake of reading a portion of the nightmarish Nuremberg Trial testimony) and have read a lot into Nazis and their awfulness, as well as have family who have suffered from the Holocaust, the story hit home like almost nothing else. With that said, the resistance mission portion of the game felt rather unpolished and unclear, and a lot of things didn’t make sense (ie actions from one time period don’t affect another, people get into disputes on missions way too much, you have a hard limit of five agents, and it is almost comically easy to save your agents from the SA prisons and interrogation areas whereas it can be very difficult to do something such as have an anonymous interview with a journalist in 1936). There also isn’t a lot of replay ability. With that said, it is still somewhat good as a game and the story makes up for a lot of it.

I think this game should be included every school’s curriculum when covering WWII. Not only does it do a wonderful job of teaching history, but it connects you to it in a way that textbooks fail to. Without ever displaying a single swastika, the creators were able to characterize the sheer terror that was spread across Germany when Hitler became chancellor, and eventually the world. You really feel for these characters. You see just how quickly everything changed for so many people. You see how quickly things are capable of changing now. Seriously, support this game. The knowledge it provides is priceless, and the experience you’ll have in playing it will stick with you for a lifetime.