2020 · World War II · Historical · Choices Matter
How long isThrough The Darkest of Times?
by Paintbucket Games
5.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 3 hours and 9 hours
Through The Darkest of Times among the 268 management games here
The whole tier list#259
of 268
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 4%
- got past 2 hours
- −38 on the kind's 42%
- 0%
- past 20 hours
- −8 on the kind's 8%
- 7%
- launched it
- −49 on the kind's 57%
- 95
- libraries own it
- 1 in 27 of the 2,519 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Mostly left in the box: 93% of the owners here never launched it, more than for 244 of 247 management games.
83% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
88% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
Do the first two hours of Through The Darkest of Times tell you?
In the first two hours69%recommend it
After that86%recommend it
16 in 100 said no: 11 after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 5.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 3 hours and 9 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,170 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
16% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 69% of those recommend it. After the window, 86% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 70% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4 hours in.
When would you get there?
6days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 5.5 hours on Friday, November 20.
Half of its reviewers had played between 3 and 9 hours: Nov 17 to Nov 23 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in Through The Darkest of Times?
The filter
Shopboycott
13 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Reichstag Fire and never earned it.
How this is counted
90% of the players who launched Through The Darkest of Times hold Public Beating, its first story achievement on Steam, and 17% hold Peace, its last. The steepest drop comes between Reichstag Fire (83%) and Shopboycott (70%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is Through The Darkest of Times worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Through The Darkest of Times
- Steam list price, US
- $14.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 5.5 h
- management game rate
- $1.67/h
- 5.5 h at that rate
- $9
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Through The Darkest of Times worth it? Probably not.
Pricey per hour
A typical management game gives 1.6× the hours for the money
Liked
86% recommend it after the refund windowmost management games: 87%
Often left unplayed
7% of owners here have played itmost management games: 60%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 5.5 hours come to $2.73 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $2.73 an hour, Through The Darkest of Times costs more per hour than 365 of 443 management games here: the typical one of 443 management games here charges $1.67.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (management games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Through The Darkest of Times today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 4 more.
- todayAndroid2020
- todayPC2020
- todayiPhone2020
- todaySwitch2023in Award Winning Indie Gems 4-in-1
- todayPS42024in Best Adventure 4-in-1 Bundle
- todayPS52024in Best Adventure 4-in-1 Bundle
- todayXbox One2025in 4-in-1 Award Winning Indie Gems
- todayXbox Series2025in 4-in-1 Award Winning Indie Gems
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Through The Darkest of Times came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Through The Darkest of Times?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Through The Darkest of Times, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Through The Darkest of Times would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Through The Darkest of Times: a kind of game it is that Through The Darkest of Times is not, a feature its tags carry that Through The Darkest of Times's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.