# Through the Darkest of Times — user reviews > 67 indexed App Store user reviews of Through the Darkest of Times by THQ Nordic Mobile GmbH, rated 4.40/5 from 25 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/through-the-darkest-of-times/id1501153090/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/through-the-darkest-of-times/id1501153090.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (13 of 67) ### 4/5 — Großartiges Spiel *2025-12-15* Tolles Spiel das ich sehr genieße aber schon Schade das es keine Updates mehr kriegt (Das letzte war vor 5 Janeen ): ) ### 3/5 — tr dil desteği yok *2025-05-09, version 1.0.11* tr dil desteği yok ### 3/5 — Cancel buttons *2024-10-25, version 1.0.11* Cancel buttons in the missions are not working properly! Character icons are covering the button, it is impossible to press it and continue on. Please fix it ### 5/5 — Good game *2023-11-29, version 1.0.11* Learning history and improve my English vocabulary. Highly recommended 😎 ### 3/5 — Can get buggy *2023-11-17, version 1.0.11* Decent gameplay, but it can get buggy. After a while, it becomes nearly impossible to click on the “Cancel” and “Confirm” buttons. Please fix this issues, as it’s getting on my nerves and preventing me from enjoying the gameplay. ### 2/5 — 残念 *2023-11-14* ボタンの当たり判定がキャラクターなどと被っていて選択肢を確定することが非常に困難。それとストーリー中の選択分岐はスクロールしたと思ったら確定されてるし。ストラテジーでこれは無理。100円の時に買ってよかった ### 4/5 — Great Game!! *2023-10-05* Here’s the deal. This is genuinely a great game. I feel like they did a good job balancing out the difficulties with different events (risky + high reward vs low risk + average reward). It does give a sense of foreboading. The only problem i have with the game is that can sometimes be hard to move around the map. Sometimes I would try to click to drag/zoom out in the map and it cancels my actions so i have to start over again. Another thing I notice is that sometimes it prevents me from doing any action despite all requirement met. It’s not a requirement issue that I’m missing cause the whole screen freezes and i can’t even exit out of the event to refresh. So i have to close to whole app to start over. I also suggest adding a skip button for the transitions between each chapter. This is bc: again my screen freezes and sometimes i accidently press the menu button and it gets stuck therr DURING the transition sceens. And also sometimes i’m replaying the game and want to skipthe transitions. Honestly, this game iz wonderful. Lovely and charming artwork, a great idea for a game, andI enjoy living through historical events…but I think the controls need a bit of work bc sometimes it glitches and ends up frustrating me. ### 2/5 — Ready to give up *2023-05-04* I love the game but I cannot hit CONFIRM to start a mission. This is absurd!! Please fix and it’ll be 5 stars. **Developer response:** Hey there, and sorry for the trouble. We had an issue similar to this where the hitbox of the head of one of the crew members was "too big" and you always selected the member instead of the confirm button. But that issue should be fixed. Nevertheless, you could try to "fire" the on guy of you team that is located below the confirm button to see if that solves the problem and double check this theory? Maybe we missed a specific set of hat or haircut that still has this problem. Kind regards, HG-Support ### 3/5 — Great, I just ask a favor *2023-04-29* Love the game, I have been playing it constantly since I downloaded it. My only gripe is there needs to be a way to skip the opening scenes and credits. It gets old after your 20th play through. Also there is a bug that prevents you from completing a mission involving passports. No support in 2 years it appears ### 5/5 — Important. Worth playing! *2022-12-11* Interesting and very very difficult game. Very educational! ### 5/5 — This game is very fun and educational *2022-04-29* I love this game already two days ago I got this game it’s very cool I think this is the best World War II game on the App Store ### 4/5 — Great game a few glitches when it comes to saving *2022-01-27* Really thought provoking and challenging game lots of replay value to try different missions- save often ### 2/5 — Love the game; bad mechanics *2021-11-28* I love everything about the game! It truly is amazing. But when planning missions it take 15-20 tries to hit either “confirm” or “cancel” because the buttons are so close to the selectable players. It’s extremely frustrating and almost makes it unplayable on mobile. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t run on my iPhone *2025-08-28* Bought the game but it doesn’t run on my iPhone 14 Pro. Just a black screen. True “darkest times” ### 1/5 — BUG NOT FIXED *2025-04-04* The latest update claims to fix a bug where character portraits block the cancel button on missions, but this issue still persists for me. It’s made the game effectively unplayable. I recommend saving your money on a product that actually works. ### 1/5 — Horrendous controls ruin a great game *2024-10-19* The accuracy of the touch controls and the fact that you have to drag everything, and the map itself, make this fun game a total pain to play. What a waste. ### 1/5 — Ngôn ngữ *2023-11-26, version 1.0.11* Vietnammese pleas ### 1/5 — Small Tet *2023-09-28, version 1.0.11* На дисплеї iPhone 8 сильно малий шрифт. Весь текст сильно змазаний. Текст не видно. ### 1/5 — Impresentables *2022-03-10, version 1.0.11* No solo es un juego insulso y aburrido. Que parece más propaganda para para decirnos lo que ya sabíamos sobre lo malos que eran los Nazis con los Judios si no que incumplen la política de la AppStore sobre devolución en 48h. A los pocos minutos vi que era más un cuento interactivo que un juego de estrategia mi sorpresa fue cuando por dos veces me han dicho que el juego no es reembolsable. No es por los cochinos 7 euros que cuesta es por que si hay una política de devolución se debe cumplir ### 1/5 — Sadly disappointing *2021-11-26* Unfortunately the story element is quite clunky and it doesn’t seem to make any difference what actions you select the narrative doesn’t change in the slightest. The strategic element is also pointless as you can work through an entire round without achieving anything. Though this might be realistic to the time period it doesn’t really make for satisfying gameplay. Would not recommend at all, it gets boring very quickly. ### 1/5 — Portraits blockieren Schaltflächen *2021-06-02* Sorry Leute, aber bei 4 Mitgliedern in der Gruppe werden immer Schaltflächen blockiert, das Spiel ist so nicht spielbar. Bitte weiter entzerren das Ganze.. ### 1/5 — 日本語訳の誤字脱字が酷い *2020-09-05* 『彼女のの顔は晴れ上がり、傷だらけであった』 このレベルの文章が多く読むのも嫌になる。 安くない有料アプリなのでしっかりと修正してください。 ### 1/5 — Absturz *2020-05-22* Beim Start des Spiel habe ich einen Schwarzen Bildschirm, trotz neu Installation. iPhone 6s Plus. **Developer response:** Hi Flosandr326, sorry für die Umstände! Das ist ein sehr schwer nachvollziehbares Problem für uns, in der Vergangenheit gab es manchmal Probleme mit dem gamecenter. Wenn dies nicht installiert ist, oder eine aktuelle Version davon auf dem Gerät ist, kann es manchmal dazu kommen, dass Apps nicht richtig starten. Falls dies nicht hilft, kontaktiere bitte unseren Support: support@handy-games.com ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it *2025-09-30* I love it I plan on playing it with my mum (edit: so I did play it multiple times with my mum i actually succeeded and did play the game multiple times while my mother’s group disbanded so it’s very fun and I’ve never really dealt with big glitches and sometimes I deal with little tiny ones but this is a fun historical game and I recommend it on long flights or if your learning something :) fluffybreadcat out!) {another edit I agree with the one that says it should be part of a school’s WW2 games idk if I’m phrasing it exactly but it is good!} ### 5/5 — Sorprendente! *2025-08-17, version 1.0.11* Es un juego muy interesante y adictivo. Vale completamente la pena y recomiendo hacer más juegos parecidos a este ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2025-08-14, version 1.0.11* Me parece un muy buen juego muy bien hecho pero deberían de hacerlo con una temática diferente sin cambiar el juego. ### 5/5 — Love it *2025-05-11* I love it I plan on playing it with my mum ### 5/5 — . *2025-02-17, version 1.0.11* Muy buen juego, demasiado inversivo sobre lo que sucedía en Alemania durante la década de los 20s y 30s ### 5/5 — Bem legal até agora *2024-10-27* Jogo bem interessante e imersivo pra quem gosta de história e segunda guerra ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2024-10-24, version 1.0.11* 10/10 ### 5/5 — Love it *2024-10-16* Incredible, and a fun way to learn history. ### 5/5 — Unfassbar gut *2024-08-29* Dieses Spiel ist ein Juwel, das leider kaum jemand kennt. Der Preis lohnt sich, man kann es Stunden um Stunden spielen und seine Strategie immer weiter verbessern. Es ist ein Strategiespiel, das aber auch sehr bewegende Story-Einspieler hat, wo man jeweils auch Handlungsspielraum hat. Es ist selten so ein gut entwickeltes Indie-Spiel zu finden und es ist beeindruckend was das kleine Entwicklerteam hier geschaffen hat. ### 5/5 — Everyone should play this game *2024-07-01* I’ve played it previously on the computer and I’m so glad to see it come to mobile. Now that we’re seeing a return of f@scism and the populist right, this game is more poignant and necessary than ever. Thank you devs. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-12.*