Games Like Through the Darkest of Times (2026)

Shared: Moral Decision-Making, Resource Management, Dark Theme

Forget commanding armies. Here you manage three starving civilians in a bombed-out shelter, and every decision about who eats tonight will follow you long after you close the game.

Shared: Resource Management

A brutally honest survival sim where the Canadian wilderness is the only villain. No zombies, no jump scares, just cold math and bad decisions.

Shared: Resource Management

Permadeath, zero hand-holding, and a Tim Burton fever dream aesthetic: Don't Starve earns every hour it steals from you, but only if trial-and-error is your idea of a good time.

Shared: Single Playthrough

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Narrative-Driven

Six years of memes and broken promises evaporated the moment I dropped into Pharloom. Hornet is a razor-sharp upgrade in every direction, and Team Cherry somehow delivered on the hype.