- 60% Warcraft 3, 35% Banished, 5% Banner Saga I was surprised just how much I loved this game. It can feel too hard at first, but that just means you have to get used to the ebb and flow of its particular strategy. Stick with it and you'll feel that same pleasure you got from Warcraft campaigns back in the day. Add on that randomized single player maps, a slew of achievements, and a small, but present, online community and you'll find yourself coming back for more. My only wish was that the campaign was longer!

Quite original for an RTS game. It reminds me a bit of something Stronghold because of the way population and combat works. However, base building is completely different since there are no supply lines and such.
People call this a 4X game too which is kind of true. Obviously it can't afflict you with a case of "one more turn" when it's played in real time, but the upside is that you can complete a game within a single hour, and that's a decent trade-off.
I would say the way that the Viking theme is characterized is one of its weakest aspects, but the main campaign is fun nonetheless. I found the writing to be a bit dull, but it's elevated by some good voice acting.
As for presentation, I don't particularly like the aesthetics of the game because they look a tad generic. I could say the same about the music and sound effects, which is kind of bad for an RTS which tend to have very memorable voice lines and such. For as good as the voice acting is in the campaign, units during skirmishes communicate exclusively through grunts.
Apart from multiplayer there are skirmishes against the AI and conquest mode which is generally harder and adds some random elements to keep things fresh. I think that's great for singleplayer content.
Overall, I'm left with positive feelings about Northgard. To me, it's not the most memorable game, but it's fairly original and quite fun nonetheless.

It's alright.

It feels like a very introductory city-builder/real-time-strategy. Basically, you manage 3 renewable resources and interchangeable workers/soldiers, not unlike a 90's RTS. The city building is limited to about 9 non-military buildings, some of which you may never even build in a game. Then to make the game a little bit more complex, there's 2 advanced resources for other projects and 3 different types of perk trees with their own paths, each dependent on the clan you choose.

It's a pretty game with decent music that doesn't feel repetitive. It has a very simple and accessible user interface. The difficulty scales by numbers, which means the harder the difficulty, there'll be +1 wolf or +1 bear per region.

For a veteran RTS/4X/City-building fan, I find it pretty boring. However, this is something I could share with family as an easy, fun strategy game to step into other games of the genre, or just put hours and hours into.

I still recommend it because it does what it's supposed to very well and the free play can generate a lot of fun, quick games.

I thoroughly enjoyed learning how to play this one. There's much I haven't tried: online pvp, certain clans that were DLC, or complete the story. My 9 hours is nothing to how much content there is to explore in Northgard. It's a RTS game which isn't something I play a lot. I do like it felt more quicker pace than other strategy games.

You could get attacked at any time and other "events" would spice up each game. One game I was hit with a blizzard during the entire winter months; I quickly ran out of food since I wasn't prepared. Another game I kept getting attacked by undead. I think each map has unique objectives and neutral races that can hurt or help you. I like you can trade with these neutral races and they can become friendly towards you. Or you can decide to straight up attack them.

I had fun in this game and I'm not fully "finished."