The next thing I knew was that a message informed me that the leader of the neighbouring clan was not happy about my hostile action. Maybe I’d just had tomatoes on my eyes? I told my two new warriors to join their buddy – by right-clicking on him. After recruiting two new warriors, I was a bit surprised to see one of my warriors still alive. Tell your warriors where to go, right-click the enemy. I started a second game to see if I had more luck there (spoiler: I did! I found fish, but no fertile land).įighting is very straight-forward. The game did not tell me what counts as fertile land. I also had no fertile land despite claiming three areas out of which one was very green all over. Where I got placed, there were no fish, though. Something I did not understand at first: In order to survive winter, you should probably have a fishing hut. The user interface is pretty clean, intuitive and easy to navigate. Houses will allow more villagers to come to your village. Of course, you also have things like a training camp for warriors or a defense tower. Then you do what you usually do in this kind of game: You place a woodcutter lodge, a hunter’s lodge if your area has deer, maybe you can place a fishing hut if you have fish nearby. So you need to expand and claim more areas for yourself (and you can only build 4 buildings in each of them). Your territory is very small and you are only allowed up to build 4 buildings in there. The first thing you will probably build is a Scout camp.
In Cultures, women tended to the house, brought home food (= carriers ^^) in Cultures 2, they also took care of bringing home dishes and stuff and they gave birth to the Viking children. Yes, I know there is always a huge debate whether there were women fighting for the Vikings, but that’s not what I mean! It’s a village. There are only men around which I am not a fan of. So, let’s look at Northgard: You start with a tiny little piece of land and a few villagers. You need to gather resources and food and defend against various enemies as well as attack others to gain more regions for your tribe! It’s a real-time strategy/simulation game where you build and grow a village of Vikings. Northgard still very much reminds me of Settlers and Cultures. I never played these games, but I know the name. Shiro Games are the developers of Evoland and Evoland 2, by the way.
#Northgard reviews series#
Shiro Games are different developers and apparently they (or one of them, at least) did not even know the Cultures series existed. However, it is probably better to keep that nostalgic feeling at the back of my mind and look at Northgard with fresh eyes. I merely mentioned them, because when I saw Northgard, I immediately had to think about Cultures and after Valhalla Hills being rather disappointing, my hope was that Northgard would be a worthy successor. But even when all features are in the game, I need to remind myself that this isn’t Cultures! Comparing it directly will only disappoint me. Several features like multiplayer are not yet implemented. A new game just freshly released into Early Access. My main problem is: There is Cultures and it got so many things right in my opinion. I liked it a lot more than Settlers, because you could name every single of your Vikings and you assigned each of them their job and determined which one got married and so on. It has single player campaigns and multiplayer coop and PvP maps. Cultures was – is, rather – a game about Vikings. Now, for the most important part: What exactly is Northgard? – To answer this, let me first ask you: Did you play Settlers? Did you play Cultures (shown below)? If you did play Cultures, come here, sit down, take a cookie, say hello and be my best friend! Cultures is the game that got me into gaming in the “modern age” (after my C64-days). :p I will – depending on the outcome of this first glance – report about significant changes and added features and write a more in-depth first impressions piece later on! The game released tonight, exactly two hours ago and since it is an early access game, you will not get my usual first impressions review, but a very quick first impressions review. I’ve promised to write down my impressions of Northgard on Twitter.
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