The game raises multiple questions around resistance, namely, how do we do it and what do we tell ourselves to help us sleep at night?īut it also has another query, one it’s aiming not just at players but at the game industry and maybe even all creators: Perhaps the way we’ve been representing the Nazi regime in games - and even pop culture at large - has more often been irresponsible than honest. We’ll vote the Nazis out, they say, even as they wonder if the elections are being meddled with to the point that they’re rigged. Those who oppose are reasonable, albeit anxious, fearful and increasingly irritable. “Through the Darkest of Times” paints those who champion Hitler not as unrelatable monsters - the buffoon-like super-soldiers of this summer’s “Wolfenstein: Youngblood,” for instance - but as regular people, only with more hate. And this week the president said that Jews who vote for Democrats show “great disloyalty.” a top Trump administration official said that the inscription on New York’s Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants is about “people coming from Europe” a new federal rule was proposed allowing businesses with federal contracts to discriminate against workers based on race, sex, ethnicity, national origin or LGBTQ status in the name of religious freedom. Just this month, white supremacist demonstrators clashed with antifascist counterprotesters in Portland, Ore. Sample headlines: “Trade War With Czechoslovakia.” “National Census.” “Boycott of Jewish Shops.” “Unions Banned.” “Jews Banned.” “Labor Camps Opened.” Though set more than 80 years ago, a sense of urgency permeates “Through the Darkest of Times” sparked by our own current events. It isn’t long before immigration fears begin to dominate, and stories emerge of closed borders, protests and then deportation. Another day an attack on a research institute inspires debate over whether LGBTQ citizens should have equal rights. One day brings talk of trade tensions and higher tariffs on imported goods.
Part history lesson, and part warning that history may repeat itself, the upcoming strategy game “Through the Darkest of Times” is driven by news headlines.
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