The Worst Game Made By A Government... 

you can legally download the persian release of this game from internet archive: archive.org/download/dark-years-modern

The GTA San Andreas bit actually broke me so hard. Was not expecting to see a direct clone of CJ's house, from 1992, in what is supposed to be London, that supposedly was a "fully recreated" 1953 version of the city, in a game made in 2015.

3 years of development. Bro I swear I can imagine the work atmosphere in the office, music busting out loud, everyone drinks tea, chit chat, watching sth on the phone and everyone is happy to get paid while doing nothing 😂

4:20 1.5 calibre would be 3.8cm, thus meaning the detective found an autocannon shell.

This game released alongside: -Bloodborne -Batman: Arkham Knight -MGSV -The Witcher 3 -Dying Light -Mortal Kombat X -SOMA And so many other games that make this release look like it came out next to Alone in the Dark

as an iranian, here is some insight on what happens in the gaming industry here: to put it simply, if an entertainment media has no propaganda in it, then it gets no funding by the government, so most companies or teams either work on small projects on mobile or get their funding from people who want to support these projects. The gaming scene was big in iran during late 2000s, with many games being dubbed in Persian by professional voice actors, it got so big that companies who do these dubs and distribute the games decided to make games themselves, and almost all of the games that are created are absolutely horrendous, it's always the bare minimum with little to no creativity, as if the devs don't know what makes games "Fun" to begin with, just mindless point and click shooting or walking for the most part, some however did well compared to rest of the well...junk, that was put out, but in the end once the age of digital downloading came it all went downhill for these companies, to the point that games were no longer being dubbed. For more context, since copyright laws don't apply in iran, people can just download any foreign game they want for FREE without any consequences, if anything piracy is actually encouraged here, because CD releases were no longer making profit all companies that were in the gaming scene slowly vanished, right now the biggest "Localization" comes in form of Persian subs for games, basically adding a persian option for all the texts in games, and i'm saying this because since games don't have an official persian localization team small companies or teams inside iran make these localizations instead. As of now most companies that are in the gaming scene only make mobile games, some of which are actually pretty good, even if they are just clones of other popular mobile games. (i hope i didn't make too many mistakes while writing this as i'm tired as hell, if you need more info or have questions about the entertainment or gaming industry in iran then i'm more than happy to answer.)

Perhaps this is the same approach Saudi Arabia took after lighting a decades-long ban on cinemas, with one of the first movies permitted in the country being the Emoji Movie. Try to convince your citizenry that movies/games simply are that appalling, and hope they'll stop nagging you for proper movies/games...

9:44 Love the fact this game is set in London in 1953, yet the London Eye (the big wheel) is there which wasn't opened until the year 2000 🤣

Game set in 1953. Fly from London to Iran on an aircraft that looks like it might be a Boeing 707, which made its first flight in 1957.

this makes Pyongyang Racer be the best goverment game ever

This definitelly should've been a point-and-click game as you've said. Heck, even a visual novel would've been much better, especially since the drawn cutscenes are actually decent.

>the detective thinking hes distracting the doctor and being sneaky >the doctor appreciating the detective helping while also doing his own job

The lockpicking isn't the only thing they stole from Bethesda, the wild dog outside the detective's apartment was just deadass a wolf who came all the way from Skyrim to hang out outside a Tehrani apartment, the detective didn't have anything to fear, he could've just walked outside and punched the dog once, free wolf meat too.

I'm an Iranian citizen. Sadly, the only game developers who get permission to publish their games are the ones that make games supporting the government's bullshit propaganda. And these government supporters aren't that smart. So... the result would be this mess of a game that as an Iranian, I didn't even know existed. We are under so much pressure from the rest of the world that we can't even legally purchase any game from steam, or any other platform for that matter. I know this pressure and all the sanctions regarding Iran are justified since the government is basically filled with corrupt people and terrorists, but it's not the citizens' fault since the majority of us are against the regime. A lot of Iranians love gaming, but we have no choice but to pirate the games that we love to play. I don't even know what the point of me saying all these things is, but I just wanted to vent, so don't mind me :)

I love learning about video games outside the common American, Japanese and European circles, whether they're good or bad. Like Vietnam made a COD clone named 7554 based on the Franco-Vietnamese War, and there's a Saudi Arabian-developed Uncharted clone that made some rounds some years ago like Unearthed. They're not particularly good but I love how they can be unintentionally hilarious, and kind of endearing in how they try to punch above their weight. Knowing a bit of history of this game, being funded by the government and in context of the blatant asset flips and direct copying makes it even funnier than just your typical Steam shovelware.

I know it's awful, but the vibes are immaculate. Lynch is quaking in his boots.

7:44 I'd place a small bet that the room is the least optimised because _each one of those books is a separate brush_ and they all get rendered at all times.

as an 80 year old english man i can confirm we used 70s american police cars in the 50s

5:36 - This sign says, "Støysone, bruk hørselvern". That's a Norwegian sign. In London. In 1953. The sign wasn't made until at the earliest 2000, but I'd say that's a 2010-or-later design.

6:35 i love how the mother continued walking and didnt even glance at her child nearly getting run over by a speeding car

3:14 the crash message indicates this game is made using Unity 3D Cities Skylines, My Summer Car has same error message

Those types of videos really remind me of the Homeschooling times during the covid lockdowns where me and my friends used to gift each other terribly looking games from the xbox store all the time lmao, good times

I found it particularly funny that they copied the lockpicking bit from Bethesda games, looks like they really just wanted to include as many minigames as possible. Also I really appreciate how you integrated captions into your video, so many people don't bother with captions at all but you did a great job including them in a way that enhances the content.

Watching the detective stand over the doctor swaying back and forth was so funny considering the content of that conversation and hovering over a dead body lol, I love these videos. How these got green lit is beyond me

I know point and click games tend to have a few bizarre puzzles that really make no sense, but you'd think a studio so familiar with creating puzzles would at least be competent at it. None of the puzzles in this game made a lick of sense. Not a single one.

2:56 That right there is the Skyrim Wolf model I'm like 90% percent sure.

As an Iranian,i apologize for this game our government has created

Finally a weapon to surpass "but can it run crysis" 😂

Holy shit, this game needs to be in a Just Bad Games episode! Because It's Just Bad.

The crazy puzzles must have been designed by Umbrella Corp 's Persian division...

not only is a 1986 car obviously out of place, but Caprices weren't even sold in the UK, nor does it look like a british police car

9:15 You picked the wrong house fool !!!!

I'm Italian and I find these kind of games so fascinating despite how poorly they are made. This reminds me of Gioventù Ribelle, a commemorative game about the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy that was boasted to be made by the best Italian video game developers, endorsed by the Italian government and many other important labels... only to land as an unfinished demo made with UDK which kept almost all the original assets/sounds of Unreal Tournament 3, had glaring issues and you could actually shoot a T-posed Pope at the end of the demo. It was so glorious (sarcasm) that it was pulled out from the site in no time and they had to rectify it as a "school project made by some students". The head of this project, Raoul Carbone, also personally attacked any form of criticism, even going with these words: "If you can do better, you are welcome to try".

1:23 “oh my god “ lol I want to see a postal game with the postal dude & this guy.

0:18 this voice acting sounds more like "step brother im stuck... oh step brother what are u doing?? :O "

I like to imagine the devs just scammed the Iranian governament

How in the hell do you even find these gems. Also, a probably weird compliment I guess, I find your voice to be very soothing.

9:29 are those the footstep sounds from Half-Life?

My favorite explanation is that the people who made this game actually wanted to sabotage the gouverment and just burn money.

Someone needs to remade this but with a ACTUAL budget. It has alot of potential

I hope there is more content like this coming, its really interesting hearing about niche games from countries outside NA or Europe or Japan

Fun fact, Iran is now making an "Iranian Call of Duty" So they will be continuing the tradition of awful Iranian made video games xD

3:31 Holy hell Yakuza maps are bigger than that and that game you do nothing but walk.

The problem with these foreign games is that they always tried to imitate bigger games like gta they probably would’ve made a decent indie game if they had a simple but effective idea rather than having multiple ideas that don’t work on a small budget

3:42 this scene killed me lmfao

To give them credit where credit is due, they put a lot of effort into it even though it's bad

There is no way this game came out the same year as Batman Arkham Knight..

5:41 The sign on the door that says "Støysone, bruk hørselsvern" is in Norwegian, and translates to "[Noise zone], use hearing protection"

Going through a rough patch right now and I haven't laughed like this in a while. Thank you

So, this looks like Mafia, crossed over with the Peaky Blinders TV show, crossed over with GTA San Andreas, crossed over with Broken Sword, crossed over again with some weird facsimile of 1950s London. Okay. The UK also never had police cars like that at any point in history, our police cars also only have blue lights. And to be fair, I've tried developing small games before. Third-person camera is a pain in the ass that will make you flip your desk, so my games were either top-down or first person. I never ever got third person working properly no matter what tutorials I followed and it wasn't worth the grief.

6:55 Bro is an awful detective, he missed a clear case of insurance fraud

I love this series of yours about Iranian games! Keep going!

really enjoyed the vid. i like where this channel is going

I don’t wanna be mean, but the voice acting for most of the characters almost sounds like someone put sentences through an ai program

Your on-screen text is not only funny and adds personality, but it also makes it possible to understand you for people who can't decipher your accent. Great idea!

"Mum, can we get The Saboteur." "We have the Saboteur at home."

5:29 this shi had me on the floor for longer than this video

Keep making video about you explaining worst games Cause your content is hilarious. Thx for making my day😂

its facinating seeing what gaming look like in other parts of the world please keep up

2:04 you slide the newspaper under the door, and then you push the spoon in the keyhole, and the key on the other side of the door will fall on the newspaper, and you can pull it out. I think I saw that on Hercule Poirot or smth. EDIT: okay let me take that back, literally nothing makes sense in this game.

I lost it at "that caliber doesn't exist," lol. Very nice video!

I just found your channel Whatched your last two videos only ( dont really like car games so didn't watch more) but your last two are really good and im happy I came across them Keep up the good work

Interesting direction the channel is going but i am all for it

6:32 love how the dead guy is just an A-posing model lying flat on the table, lmao

Hey thanks for the video. I really enjoy all the background info about the people involved with the games you cover, its very interesting.

1.5 calibur? As in 1.5mm? 1.5 inches? 1.5 grains? That's either ridiculously tiny or comically huge XD The dude was either shot with the firearms equivalent of a grain of rice, or some kind of anti-aircraft shell.

1:46 + US cars in london 😊

Haven’t found any other RU-vidrs that have covered these incredibly obscure, weird shitty Iranian games. Thank you ❤

1:12 I mean who hasn’t done this we used to break into my friends house all the time with clean his house and then clean all the resin out of his bong smoke all the resin and then he come home and be mad that we smoked the resin, but he be surprised that his house is clean

Bro the level of patience you've gone through is amazing 🤣

4:14 1.5 caliber would be equal to around 38.1mm, if my math doesn't fail me. That's a canon.

2:42 Is that an internet Text to Speech voice modulated in post on the word "phone" to make it sound human?

I'm an Iranian and I didn't even know this game existed! God! what a mess!!!

the one nice thing i can say about this is the comic book-style cutscenes look pretty dope. tbh as one who likes playing terrible games out of curiosity i might have to give this one a shot at some point lmao.

bro i fukin love your videos you seem to put more effort into the videos than those people put into their games

Loved your video . This pretty sums up the gaming industary in iran .

There’s a tiny part of me that wants this to be adapted into a film that is doggedly faithful to the original script, just to see the detective unlock a drawer by bouncing a metal ball off of the top of the desk.

4:13 Caliber is a measurement of a gun's bore diameter measured in inches. That doctor just said the case belongs to a pistol whose bullets are one and a half inches WIDE.

This video made me crack up countless times! Thanks man!

Very appropriate that the forger lives in a forgery of Carl's house

8:04 - Ahhh nice and warm

As an Iranian I will apologize to any poor soul who played this game it’s just propaganda made by the government to get support for their regime within the country

@ 8:32, they really cranked up the bloom on that doctor. I'm surprised the main character can even look at him directly without shielding his eyes.

I thought this was an early 2000s original Xbox title or something until 50 seconds in... It released the same year as need for speed 2015! How?! (that's 2015 if you didn't know)

Cracked up at 9:22 🤣

5:18 WHY DOES A BAR IN THE 1940's HAVE AN ARCADE CABINET IN IT!?

Very interesting content! Looking forward for more

One one the developer guys is here. Actually, they kept us in a basement, no food, no water.. I'm an ex navy seal. We had to do it.. I heard the voiceover guys had a better treatment, something like a proper toilet and food..

Hello again , i thought it was going to be that game you gonna review ( well it was ) , i knew it will suck i didnt knew this much . maybe one day i start making videos about these games , not now of course . ( and make fun of it and cringe at the same time ) and thank you for that archive website , now i have access to those old Persian games for free .

Thank you for doing this to yourself for the sake of our entertainment.

Dude your videos are so awesome!

3:54 oh, I’be played with one of these! Though if you’re goal is to get the ball, the quickest way to do that is to lose since the ball will roll down to the dispenser after you fail.

Can’t believe there isn’t a feature to backhand your wife. So much for being historically accurate.

yakuza series also have a tiny map, but you will never notice because the story and interactions are so rich

I randomly found this channel and dove in into the Iranian game development industry. Now I think it's safe to say that this channel is like a man who's an evening daily.

a huge respect for you to actually play the game like this for uploading a content ..i will share ..i will like ...and i will subscribe you channel for this painful sacrifice

"1.5 caliber" bro got hit with a whole ass cannon

2:26 The game gives you two options and they both result in the same outcome… why does that sound familiar.

But the important part is someone got their kickback for the game after providing their best buddy government funds for the development. Thanks for playing this wreck and taking it for the team!

This reminds me of the assignment that requires more than 3 weeks to complete and the fact that I just done it within an hour...