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.
Darkest Hour will introduce a new artificial intelligence that is now able to react to hundreds of different situations simultaneously. It implements a dynamic diplomatic system that will allow the player to have a real impact on the course of history.
Key Features:
Scenarios:
Grand campaign scenarios (where it is possible to choose any of the nations involved):
Battle scenarios which focus on specific battles or wars and where players can choose between a small number of nations:
Patch 1.05.1, which until now has been available only as beta, is now the latest official version of Darkest Hour. Savegames and mods for 1.04 are NOT compatible with 1.05.1. Savegames and mods for 1.05 are compatible with 1.05.1. The complete changelog of patch 1.05 can be found here: For more details, please refer to the Paradox forum:
IMPORTANT: For the moment Version 1.05.1 is available through the Beta tab (versions 1.02, 1.03 and 1.05 can be found there too) while 1.04 is still the default version (this will be changed later). Hello everyone, Thanks to your reports in the Paradox forum after the release of Patch 1.05 we were able to identify two issues introduced by the patch: Fixed air and naval units mission cancellation on auto-retreat from combat – 1.05 bug Fixed issues with wrong over command penalty applied in some s...
IMPORTANT: For the moment Version 1.05.1 is available through the Beta tab (versions 1.02, 1.03 and 1.05 can be found there too) while 1.04 is still the default version (this will be changed later). Hello everyone, Thanks to your reports in the Paradox forum after the release of Patch 1.05 we were able to identify two issues introduced by the patch: Fixed air and naval units mission cancellation on auto-retreat from combat – 1.05 bug Fixed issues with wrong over command penalty applied in some s...
IMPORTANT: For the moment Version 1.05 is available through the Beta tab (versions 1.02 and 1.03 can be found there too) while 1.04 is still the default version (this will be changed later). Savegames of patch 1.04 are not compatible with patch 1.05. As a general rule (with few exceptions) mods for patch 1.04 do NOT work with patch 1.05, but can be easily updated (instruction here:) Very short list of changes (compared to patch 1.04): we modified the CV Sprites which caused the CTD Issues with t...
IMPORTANT: For the moment Version 1.05 is available through the Beta tab (versions 1.02 and 1.03 can be found there too) while 1.04 is still the default version (this will be changed later). Savegames of patch 1.04 are not compatible with patch 1.05. As a general rule (with few exceptions) mods for patch 1.04 do NOT work with patch 1.05, but can be easily updated (instruction here:) Very short list of changes (compared to patch 1.04): we modified the CV Sprites which caused the CTD Issues with t...