Northgard
Lead a Viking clan by building a settlement, assigning workers and expanding its territory. Winter survival competes for your attention with routes to victory through conquest, fame, lore or trade.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.9 / 10
About this game
Northgard puts you in charge of a Viking settlement on a newly discovered continent. Build your community and assign its people to occupations such as farming, fighting, sailing and studying lore. Resource management is part of survival: the settlement must endure harsh winters as well as the dangers beyond its borders. Expansion opens new strategic opportunities, while victory can come through conquest, fame, lore or trading. The recurring decisions concern how to distribute your workers, sustain the settlement and develop a route toward your chosen objective. Wolves, undead warriors and giants place that struggle within a world drawn from Norse mythology. Computer opponents offer different difficulty levels and personalities.
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AI review
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A promising fit for players who want settlement survival to shape their strategy.
Worker assignments and winter survival suggest a strategy game where supporting the settlement matters alongside expansion. Alternative victory conditions may reward players who prefer developing an economic or knowledge-based plan to pursuing conquest alone.
Strengths
- Occupations and several victory conditions may make workforce planning meaningful beyond building an army.
- Winter resource demands can give settlement management a concrete purpose.
Weaknesses
- Players seeking uninterrupted expansion may find the need to prepare for winter a demanding constraint.
Who it is for: Players interested in balancing a settlement's needs with territorial and strategic ambitions.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Winter survival can make preparation and consolidation matter between periods of expansion. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Assigning workers while choosing a victory route may appeal to players who enjoy connecting economic decisions with broader strategy. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Giants and undead warriors may give the settlement's survival struggle a mythological character for players drawn to Norse settings. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Different AI difficulty levels offer a way to adjust the opposition when learning settlement and resource management. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Shiro Games
- Publisher
- Shiro Unlimited
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Real-Time Strategy · Primary genre
- Tags
- SurvivalTop-downPlayer versus PlayerBase ManagementSolo-friendlyFantasyResource ManagementReplayableOnline Co-opConstructionExplorationReal-time Strategy
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single playerMultiplayerCo-op
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2018
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2019
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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