Justin Moore

A post apocalyptic story written in 1922, before the atomic bomb, but in every way anticipating the post apocalyptic SF stories and films we're familiar with from the post WW2 period, religious renunciation of knowledge, savage survival etc. It shows that, to the sensitive, the advent of modern ideas occurred in the shock of industrial war in WW1. Some of its ideas about using mass displacement of people anticipates WW2, interesting but not very cheerful.

A very good refinement and perfection of Hearts of Iron 2, removing all its bugs and becoming the first HOI game one could confidently expect to play right through to a win. It takes the Europa game engine to its best use in the direction of gameplay and user modification instead of the direction HOI3 took of meaningless and tiresome multiplication of provinces and pieces to sell more videocards, that then led to the excessive automation of HOIIV and its movie-like boredom, Darkest Hour is where the heart of the original HOI1 stayed. It's near the end of the volunteer development of it now but if you want the best of the HOI experience then you should play it.