![]() This character was a matronly woman who baked cookies for children but also viewed the wrongful imprisonment of others as the right thing to do because she believed in the regime. One interaction my character had was that one of my neighbours had been hired by the Nazis to serve as a guard at a concentration camp and was ecstatic about it. These are people who risked everything to fight for what they believed in, facing off against the darkness they saw overtaking their lives and loved ones. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?įighting against Nazi Germany is a story that has been told countless times, and rarely do we hear the stories of those who combated the threat from within. Characters can go into hiding for a week to reduce their visibility and there are also missions that will reduce the visibility of all your recruits, though these are expensive and should be used infrequently. Individuals with high visibility have an even more likely chance of a negative result and increase the danger of even normal missions proportionately. Also, the more missions your characters undertake the more likely they are to be seen and marked by the Nazi’s and their supporters. There is no reward without danger however, and the higher the level of danger a mission has the more likely it is that your agents will have a negative fate befall them, such as being arrested to outright killed. ![]() The main mission screen in Through The Darkest Of Times Missions also have lists of both helpful and harmful traits characters that go on missions with helpful traits will increase the potential reward while harmful traits will lower it. ![]() Missions will require certain skills or combinations of skills, and characters that have higher stats in those skills will of course do better on those missions. The categories of stats are: Secrecy, Empathy, Propaganda, Strength, and Literacy. You recruit a squad of up to five resistance fighters including your character, and each of those characters have stats broken into different categories, as well as different character traits. A typical mission in Through The Darkest Of Times However, if the morale of funding of your group hits zero it’s game over. In addition, you must manage the morale of your resistance as well as its finances, both of which you can gain more of by performing certain missions. It is an effective system because of its simplicity rather than a detractor. Each mission takes one week of in-game time and there are occasionally obstacles that you have three choices of how to deal with. There are a number of different missions available on the map with more being unlocked after performing the prerequisite mission.
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