Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

Martin Ivanov · April 8, 2011 · Strategy, Grand Strategy, World War II, Historical, World War I

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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game price by region

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game costs £1.65 in the United Kingdom, $1.94 in the United States, €1.94 in Europe (EUR), $1.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$2.61 in Canada, A$2.89 in Australia, NZ$3.19 in New Zealand, R$7.19 in Brazil and zł9.19 in Poland right now.

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RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £1.65 −81% £1.65 £2.71 11
United Statesyour region $1.94 −81% $1.94 $2.26 12
Europe (EUR) €1.94 −81% €1.94 €3.12 12
Georgia (USD) $1.99 −80% $1.99 $2.26 11
Canada CA$2.61 −81% CA$2.61 — 11
Australia A$2.89 −81% A$2.89 — 11
New Zealand NZ$3.19 −80% NZ$3.19 — 10
Brazil R$7.19 −80% R$7.19 R$20.32 12
Poland zł9.19 −80% zł9.19 zł14.47 12

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About Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

✦ AI summary

Lead any nation through the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century, from WWI through the Cold War, using dynamic diplomacy and strategic warfare to reshape history. Darkest Hour delivers enhanced AI, detailed maps, and both sweeping grand campaigns and focused battle scenarios that capture the era's most defining moments.

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game in the rankings

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game is a grand strategy mod for Hearts of Iron 2 that some players consider one of the greatest strategy games ever made, praising its depth and historical design, while others find it suffers from an outdated and unintuitive interface, tedious number-crunching, and shallow gameplay mechanics compared to alternatives. The game naturally follows historical paths unless heavily modified, which appeals to some but frustrates those seeking immediate sandbox freedom.

Recommended Sep 27, 2026
The hate that THIS one in particular is getting is so forced. Do your due diligence and read reviews made more then a month ago, no one was saying anything negative about this game other then the fact that it isn't a total sandbox and will naturally follow a more historical path unless you heavily deviate from it and you know enough about how the game works to know how. So it isn't literally just like an alt-history simulator out of the box where you can be like "Oh I'll just make Germany communist, America communist and the USSR right winged and see what happens". Like that was basically one of the only "complaints" I saw about this for YEARS. This is absolutely one of the greatest strategy games ever made. This one specifically, Darkest Hour, is a mod for HOI2. Idk why brainlets keep acting like this is HOI4 or something and review bombing it. I want the literate among us to notice that this HOI game, unlike others, has a different name as the developer then it does the publisher. Martin Ivanov is the developer of Darkest Hour and he did a phenomenal job at this mod and it is THE definitive way to play HOI2. I say this with an additional 100 hours on vanilla HOI2. This mod ad…
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 25, 2026
not good at all Rome Total war is better.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 25, 2026
game has a really bad interface and is not enjoyable at all. i know it's old but still, it's almost unplayable.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 29, 2026
Not worth for a map painting game. Too shallow and unoptimized
Recommended Sep 26, 2026
My introduction to Hearts of Iron, and not a bad start.
Not recommended Sep 26, 2026
Martin Ivanov got his version of HOI2 to work on modern PCs, but it's still the same boring slogfest that the others are. I can't even call it a map painting simulator because you'll be doing more gazing at spreadsheets and crunching numbers than anything else. A nicer looking map is all you'll get outta this one. Just avoid and find something else, straight simple.

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