Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Fair · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 4 MB DirectX-compatible, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
November 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 101 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Panzer Corps 2 ($39.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Steel Division 2 ($39.99, scores 41).
81 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
66 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 07:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/73170/darkest-hour-a-hearts-of-iron-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Oct 1.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.