- Fight Back in Our Latest Bundle – 25% off for a Limited Time - 27 November 2025
From the skies above to the streets below, courage took many forms during World War II. Experience the thrill of aerial combat and strategic base-building as you construct your airfield in «Ground of Aces». Lead the resistance against the rising fascist tide and fight for freedom in «Through the Darkest of Times». https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/62713/Ground_of_Aces_x_Through_the_Darkest_of_Times/ Both games are available now as one bundle and you can get it with a 25% discount – just for a limited time!
- Check out the HandyGames Autumn Sale - 29 September 2025
The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder and there is nothing better than being cozy at home and playing some video games. So, make sure to fill up your library with amazing games for even more amazing prices! The best part is there is bound to be something for everyone. No matter if you like shooters or cute games, strategy or puzzles, party games or platformers, we have it all. So, get ready to explore our best sellers and hidden gems! Get ready to buy our games and save up to 90%!
- The Darkest History Bundle - 25 March 2025
The newest title by Paintbucket Studios came out today, and we are celebrating this release with the "The Darkest History" bundle! Experience the darkest chapter of modern German history from two different perspectives: In Through the Darkest of Times, you are the leader of a small resistance group in 1933’s Berlin, of ordinary people, from Jews to Catholics and Communists to Patriots who simply can’t stand aside. Your goal is to deal with small blows to the regime – dropping leaflets to spread awareness about what the Nazis are really up to among the people, painting messages on walls, sabotaging, gathering information and recruiting more followers. And all of that while staying undercover – if the regime’s forces learn about your group, the life of each member is in grave danger. The Darkest Files takes place after the war in 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Na…
- HandyGames Winter Sale - 20 December 2024
Dark, cold, and snowy days are the perfect time to stay in and dive into great gaming experiences. So, fill up your library with amazing games for even more amazing prices! Embark on exciting adventures, defeat your enemies in action-packed shooters, solve puzzles, experience beautiful worlds in platformers, or have a great time with friends or family playing our party games. It does not matter how you want to spend your time. We will have something for you - now for up to 90% off!
- FLASH SALE: Epic 20-in-1 Bundle! - 25 November 2024
Get ready for an incredible gaming deal! Starting today, November 25th, 2024, at 7:00 PM CET, dive into an amazing 20-in-1 Bundle featuring some of the most beloved titles across genres. Don’t miss your chance—this exclusive sale ends in a flash on November 27th, 2024, at 7:00 PM CET. What’s Included? This bundle is packed with variety and excitement! Here’s what you’ll get: One Hand Clapping SCARF Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Through the Darkest of Times Thunder Wolves Sine Mora EX El Hijo Jagged Alliance: Rage! Aces of the Luftwaffe - Squadron Bang Bang Racing Nexus - The Jupiter Incident Rogue Stormers Lock's Quest Rad Rodgers SkyDrift Infinity Spitlings 1943 Deadly Desert Devils & Demons Clouds & Sheep 2 World of Zoo Don’t Miss Out! This is your chance to grab 20 games for one unbeatable price. Whether you love action, strategy, puzzles, or adventures, this bundle has it all! https…
- HandyGames AI-Powered Showcase 2024 - 1 August 2024
HandyGames is thrilled to announce the first-ever AI-powered HandyGames Showcase 2024, which will be part of the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase 2024. The event will kick off on August 2nd, 2024, at 8:45 PM CEST. Gaming enthusiasts can tune in to watch the full showcase on the THQ Nordic Showcase Page, YouTube, and Twitch, or view the HandyGames Showcase separately on the official HandyGames YouTube channel. Prepare for a showcase crafted with the precision of an AI-driven algorithm versus the creativity of a caffeinated game dev. Join us as we reveal more about our exciting titles and celebrate the creativity and innovation in gaming. We have programmed our AI to ensure it's an unforgettable experience. So, sit back, relax, and let our artificial intelligence entertain you like never before. Stay tuned for more updates and be prepared to welcome our new AI Overlords!
- German Flood Relief Event - 28 July 2021
We are following the events in the flooded areas with sadness and deep sympathy and are shocked how many people have lost their lives, their livelihood, or their life's work. Our thoughts are with those affected and their families who are still - after the water slowly recedes - holding out in uncertainty and fighting for their belongings. We are full of pride and admiration for the service of volunteers, farmers, firefighters, soldiers, police officers, and disaster services who are working day and night in the flooded areas and who are sacrificially working under the most adverse circumstances for the people in need. We do our part! Together with our studios Massive Miniteam (Spitlings), Paintbucket Games (Through The Darkest Of Times) and Honig Studios (El Hijo - A Wild West Tale), we started a Steam event - German Flood Relief - where 20% of every purchase will be donated to Aktion…
- The most intense story that can be played is a real one. - 25 November 2020
Only Real History is More Than Story Rich Remembering it is vital to move on to a better future. That's why we decided take part in the Steam Award nominations in the "Outstanding Story-Richt Game" category! We're very happy that so many of you appreciated Through the Darkest of Times for its grim but ever more relevant retelling of events from Europe's past. Now we're asking you to help us by voting for this unique game. The most intense experiences come from real stories and real people. 1933, the unforgettable announcement: "Hitler is Chancellor!" has changed the lives of ordinary people, from Jews to Catholics and Communists to Patriots who simply couldn’t stand aside. As we all know, this message brought hardship and injustice for many. In Through the Darkest of Times, every choice impacts your next steps. Buying paper is dangerously suspicious and painting anti-nazi paroles on wal…
- It's time to get serious! - 13 May 2020
Giebelstadt/Berlin, April 28th, 2020: The dice have been cast, and the stars have aligned, Through the Darkest of Times is a winner, baby! Yesterday, we managed to beat 315 other games at the German Computer Games Awards 2020, which is one of the highest honors a videogame can achieve in Germany. A panel of 40 experts decided the winners through none other but a group video call, and we managed to snag a prize! We could not be more proud of our awesome partners Paintbucket Games and our team at HandyGames. “Congrats to our friends at Paintbucket Games and our team at HandyGames! It is an honor to win this important award, and I am proud to have such a historic must-have indie-title in our portfolio. Now it is, our mission to reach as many gamers around the globe as possible with Through the Darkest of Times and we are working full-steam on delivering this German piece of art to all mobi…
- The Flare Path: A2Z - 3 April 2020
A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path water closet and see what wargame and simulation news items stick to it. Below is this month’s bag – 25 stories involving virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. If you’ve visited a transport museum or heritage railway in the past twelve months, or can put these battles – Bunker Hill, Bataan, Borodino – in chronological order, you probably won’t regret clicking where it says… (more…)
- THREE nominations at the "German Games Award"! - 30 March 2020
The nominees for the German Computer Game Award 2020 have been determined after 40 experts from the main jury conferred via video call. The jury determined the winners and nominees from a pool of 315 submissions. And now it's official! We are represented in the final round of 3 categories: Best German Game Best Serious Game Best Family Game "We know that this award is one of the most important in the German games industry and we are really proud of our team and our developers for having achieved this tremendous success. A big thanks to the jury that we are represented in the final selection for this renowned award! We can hardly believe that we are nominated in 3 categories with "Through the Darkest of Times" from our developer Paintbucket Games! Of course, we are happy and honored that this fantastic and sociopolitically relevant title is getting the attention it deserves." (HandyGames)
- Patch 1.0.4 released - 18 March 2020
We released patch 1.04 with some small bug fixes and improvements ‘Political Dispute’: improved condition check, which now considers the political leanings of group members and the player Arrests: fixed a bug which occurred if a character was arrested for the third time in the last week of a chapter Tutorials: added Tutorial for Contacts, fixed minor visual issues Leader-Missions: 1-8 grand a Contact reward which is also visible on the planning screen Added member events for member dying on mission
- Patch 1.0.3 released - 3 March 2020
We released patch 1.03 with some bug fixes, balancing changes and better wide screen support! Support Widescreen resolutions (21:9) Prevent the game to start in unsupported resolutions. Graphical and layout improvements of many scenes Drag & Drop: the mouse cursor sometimes didn’t reappear after dropping elements Epilogue: the last part of the epilogue is now also shown after the outro Member Events: fixed bugs with several conditions and follow ups Newspapers: replaced the German chapter newspapers from 1936 on with underground or smuggled foreign newspapers or flyers dropped by the allied forces - it is now more understandable that the weekly news are not Nazi propaganda or displayed in Nazi-Germany Disruptions: enforcing now increases the chance of all outcomes except fail, instead of only increasing the chance to be seen Disruptions: fixed bug which generally doubled the chance to b…
- Patch 1.02 released - 17 February 2020
We released patch 1.02 with some more small bug fixes: Fixed an issue where choice option texts become invisible when changing the game resolution while they’re visible. Fixed an issue where you could open the mission lifetime tooltip through other UI elements Fixed an issue where missions are not locked properly when switching chapters Fixed an issue where a contact could be marked as "usable" even though the conditions are not met anymore after using a different contact Chapter 2 headquarter - fixed an issue that name tags are half covered in headquarter member events Now updating “settings.json” after using auto save to autosave the user settings. Fixed an issue where the player got wrong epilogue texts when he was imprisoned too often
- The Flare Path: Through the Darkest of Times - 7 February 2020
Developer: Paintbucket Games Publisher: HandyGames Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam , GOG Price: 13.50 Happily, Kalypso’s squeamish attitude to WW2 isn’t shared by everyone in the games industry. While some go out of their way to remove references to the despicable regime that started the 20th Century’s bloodiest killathon, others, Paintbucket Games for example, work hard to ensure Nazism appears on our screens unedited and unvarnished. Thought-provoking Through the Darkest of Times deposits you in a city far more disturbing and dystopian than City 17 or Metropolis. 1930s Berlin. A history-rich story-wreathed TBS in which small acts of resistance can feel like major victories, it has, I was pleased to discover, considerably more to offer than an irreproachable educational agenda. (more…)
- Patch 1.01 released - 7 February 2020
We released patch 1.01 with a load of small bug fixes: Polished bombing scene: fixed sorting issues and fixed & added animations (bike animation takes longer now, boy’s head wiggles now and he is blinking now), edited and replaced the airraid boy’s head, fixed Peter’s head in explosion scene Replaced the old cafe background with a new one and fixed overlap issue Fixed an Issue, where when deleting Save Games, going into the folder view of a Story Save Game and then closing it again lead into some Save Games not being displayed in the Load Save Game Menu until the player re enters it again German: flipped delete save confirm texts Fixed historical error in the prologue of Chapter 3, where the text said the UK declared war on Germany after France was occupied, when in fact UK declared war on Germany after Poland was attacked Fixed getting coal instead of losing it in FATHER without Food e…
- First small patch - 3 February 2020
• English: fixed sentence in personal event "Winterhilfswerk" • Japanese: fixed token in news of 19. April 1933 • Audio Settings are now Stored in the Settings.json, and will be synced with SteamCloud • Fix an issue where no Settings.json will be created when Cloud Settings are disabled • Simplified Chinese: rebuild font atlas to include missing symbols from historical event Neighbors • Fixed macros in free spouse of member action tooltips • fixed chinese neighbors scene being in Japanese • fixed typo in Credits Scene founded > funded
- E3 2019 Wrap Up - 17 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34276551%2F849742a35678c68f34bf3106c741484a23fa89d4.png What a week it was for „Through the Darkest of Times“ at the E3 2019 in Los Angeles. We are so grateful for the amount of positive feedback and coverage our game received. It was simply amazing. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34276551%2F4b444d0c270124a564fcdfb506be930d14220b17.png Click the thumbnail above and check out Gamespot's own Lucy James and Mike Mahardy as they spend a full segment covering how Through the Darkest of Times takes a Stance in an interview with our PR Manager. He talks about the motivation to create a game such as this and how it can be turned into a game that is not only educational but also emotionally gripping as well as entertaining. Also, representatives from, VentureBeat, Polygon, Hardcore Gamer, Shack New…
- E3 2019 games every game confirmed - 13 June 2019
They just keep coming don’t they? A lot of games were announced at E3 2019, things that we didn’t know about, as well as stuff that’s previously announced, or expansions to already released games. Now, to the casual outsider, what we’re doing might seem absolutely nuts, but we thought we’d put together an alphabetical list of all the PC games that have been confirmed to appear at this year’s E3 show. With well over a hundred of them now in the books, the next year or so looks packed. (more…)
- E3 2019 games every game confirmed - 12 June 2019
They just keep coming don’t they? A lot of games were announced at E3 2019, things that we didn’t know about, as well as stuff that’s previously announced, or expansions to already released games. Now, to the casual outsider, what we’re doing might seem absolutely nuts, but we thought we’d put together an alphabetical list of all the PC games that have been confirmed to appear at this year’s E3 show. With well over a hundred of them now in the books, the next year or so looks packed. (more…)
