When the Gestapo comes for you, it's over. A scene from Through the Darkest of Times.
When the Gestapo comes for you, it's over. A scene from Through the Darkest of Times.
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Through the Darkest of Times hands-on — The fear of getting caught vs. the fear of doing nothing

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Through the Darkest of Times has the simplest of graphics. It has black-and-white hand-drawn images for its art. But it is a very moving game about the darkest period of German history, starting in 1933 when Hitler came to power.

Your job is to take command of a small resistance group in Berlin. You have to survive and challenge the Nazi regime until the end of World War II. It’s not a Wolfenstein shooter game, but it is intense and scary in its own way.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.