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Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is a strategy, grand strategy and world war ii game
developed by Martin Ivanov
and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on April 08th 2011 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Polish and Russian.
It has received 2,011 reviews of which 1,802 were positive and 209 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.38€ on Gamivo.
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- OS *: Windows 98/ ME / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
- Processor: Pentium III 800 MH
- Memory: 128 MB Ram
- Hard Disk Space: 2 GB hard disk space
- Video Card: 4 MB DirectX-compatible
- Sound: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
- DirectX®: DirectX 9.0 or higher
- Additional: Mouse with scroll wheel, keyboard and internet for multiplayer
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I've now played this game longer than the real battle of Stalingrad lasted. So I would say no don't play it. You don't want none of this in your life. Then again...Verdun lasted 7,272 hours so I can still probably try out some stuff. Maybe declare war on every other country on earth as Germany in September 1939 and fight them all with nothing but militia. One time I fought the USSR along a static front in central Europe until they ran out of manpower and I watched their armies disintegrate in place. That was pretty wild. Considering they had sustained about 59 million casualties it seemed appropriate. After slugging it out with them for 8 straight years from Latvia to Odessa. I chased their remaining units who were all at %10 strength and full organization back to Moscow forcing the Soviet capitulation in the winter of 1950. Don't try to rescue the USA from the depression and see what happens, that is pretty funny. Because of the domestic oil, Venezuela can support mechanized forces, but if you don't plan to cheat you will not be able to mobilize enough forces to attack Brazil until about 1952. You can take over all of South America, but you will end up in crazy grinding defeat against the USA after years of making them suffer over your mountain defenses. If you do cheat, you can easily choose your own adventure with just about any nation that can be made independent. Sometimes that means starting as one nation liberating another and then taking over that nation after a save. Anyway kidding aside this is the best version of HOI. Infinite replay without infinite learning curve. It is super risk on steroids, but without so much depth that you get lost in the spreadsheets some other Paradox games rely on.
A game I keep coming back to from time to time even 15 years after I first played it. The battle scenarios and mods like Kaiserreich provide a lot of replay value, and I like the battle and total losses calculators. Even in a Hearts of Iron world dominated today by HOI4 and its mods, let this old lady not be forgotten.
Preface: Buy this if you want to play Hearts of Iron 2. It is the definitive version of the game and supplants the original, read on for more. Darkest Hour is a major update to HOI2, with a completely new map, new scenarios including WWI, and new game systems. It is a refined product at this point, but still receives the occasional update. This game is deeper than HOI4 by far, and though it is arguable whether HOI3 is deeper, DH is less frustrating to play, less micro. There are features that you lose by going with the older game, of course, and it will depend on what your demands are, and to be honest if you know what they are you probably already know which game is for you. However, if you are like me, you will either have a warm spot or a curiosity for the original HOI2 game. Luckily, Darkest Hour is the definitive version of vanilla HOI2. In the launcher you have the option to choose three modes, DH Full, which is the revamped version, DH Lite, which is vanilla HOI2 with only minor tweaks, and finally, a "none" option, which is simply regular HOI2 Armageddon all patched up. Gameplay is identical to the original HOI2 Complete, and it is indeed a superior version, as the engine has been optimized for modern hardware, and you can play at any resolution instead of 1024x768. It's also fully savegame compatible with old HOI2 saves. The only difference is some of the leader portraits are different, and Germany uses a different, less censored flag. As such there is no reason other than curiosity to buy the original HOI2, just buy Darkest Hour. If the old style map is not offputting, I recommend playing this first to learn the game systems, then learn what DH has added on top of it. The old map has less provinces, and thus can be simpler to engage with. Just be warned, this game will take up a LOT of your time. Nevertheless it is one of the zeniths of grand strategy and PC gaming in general, and remains so today. Highly recommended.
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game received 1,802 positive votes out of a total of 2,011 achieving a rating of 8.56.
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game was developed by Martin Ivanov and published by Paradox Interactive.
Yes, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is not playable on MacOS.
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No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game does not support VR.
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game does not support Steam Remote Play.
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