Games like Through the Darkest of Times
Looking for games like Through the Darkest of Times? Here are top casual role playing recommendations with a drama and historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Suzerain, Beholder or The Pale Beyond.
1 86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization93% User Score 4,914 reviewsCritic Score 78%9 reviewsHow will you lead the nation of Sordland? The award-winning, political RPG game.
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2 75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability82% User Score 5,348 reviewsCritic Score 66%12 reviewsA totalitarian State controls every aspect of private and social life. Laws are oppressive. Surveillance is total. Privacy is dead. You are a State-installed manager of an apartment house. The State requires you to spy on your tenants, and report any illegal or subversive activity. However, you can also choose to keep the information to yourself, or use it to blackmail the residents, resulting in …
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3 85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding90% User Score 2,632 reviewsCritic Score 80%10 reviewsYou didn't ask to lead this expedition but here you are: stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilization and everyone looking for you to lead. Manage your meager resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls and head in the only direction you can - into The Pale Beyond.
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4 65%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability74% User Score 5,430 reviewsCritic Score 54%32 reviewsJack Boyd, beloved police chief of Freeburg, has 180 days before he's forced to retire. But Jack won't be going out quietly. Over the next six months, he'll be going all out to fulfill a dream: earn half a million dollars, any way he can. That might be play money for a corrupt cop, but up until now, Jack has been playing by the book. Even with overtime, in six months he wouldn't make fifty grand. …
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5 70%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability70% User Score 1,642 reviewsCritic Score 72%1 reviewsParis, the times of the French Revolution. The Player controls a Judge – an alcoholic and a gambler - of The Revolutionary Tribunal. His objective is to preside over court proceedings, judging people brought in front of him – revolutionaries and their enemies, criminals and ordinary citizens. Along the course of the story, the protagonist will be expanding his influence over XVIIIth-century Paris,…
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6 79%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability86% User Score 5,594 reviewsCritic Score 72%14 reviewsThese are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
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7 73%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability79% User Score 2,364 reviewsCritic Score 67%15 reviewsOut of money and out of luck you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord's taken the key back, you can't finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, …
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8 83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization90% User Score 4,546 reviewsCritic Score 75%9 reviewsA narrative-driven RPG set in a gritty world where a person's Lot is determined at birth, while the gods are real and preside over the fates of men. Set out on a lifelong journey and carve out your own destiny. Will you become a judge, an inquisitor, or conspire against the old order? You decide!
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9 84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization88% User Score 7,478 reviewsCritic Score 80%39 reviewsBanner Saga - Viking Strategy Tactics RPG - Best Indie Game of 2014
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10 63%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability63% User Score 1,908 reviewsCritic Score 57%13 reviewsPoint-and-click adventure with only one scenary! We tried to approach Minimalism trough gameplay. Isolated on a single stage, with a few a possible actions, you must endure trough a 40 days...
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