Each land you explore and colonize offers certain resources such as stone, iron, or food that you must exploit to the fullest to evolve your clan, but it is not as simple as building as much as you can. Measure each step you take, because growing too fast can leave you without your food and wood reserves, which means you’ll be totally defenseless in the cold winter. With a few Vikings under your command, you will have to expand your dominions conquering the lands that surround you but you will have to do it carefully. Each clan has their own way of grasping victory. And it’s worth mentioning because that the limitations that it imposes so that actions do not become too complex are a strategic resource that allows it to that lets you face its challenges with some freedom. Whether you’re a newcomer to the genre or have been enjoying real-time strategy for a lifetime, in this Shiro Games title you will find more than enough excuses to lose yourself in its colorful mythological universe. Something Northgard does right is that it sails between very different waters - and despite this, it floats admirably. It is also very conservative in the way that the goals of the chapters of the single-player mode are developed, being experiences that we have already lived hundreds of times in other RTS like Age of Empires II or Warcraft III. Outside its Nordic packaging, the plot remains a story of revenge and very basic power struggles. Each offering, reference, social stratum, motive, or decision of its characters are based on the Eddas, making it breathe a well-worn narrative solidity.
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Thus, we have a game that knows how to use the Nordic mythological and historical context as its god’s command. Just as Santa Monica did a good job informing themselves for their God of War, Shiro Games did the same with the Eddas. The Eddas are oral poems where all the myths, chronologies, and biographies of the northern gods are collected.
It is true that many remain in somewhat regular titles because they borrow mythology as a cover for their aesthetics, but this leaves the most attractive thing outside: the Eddas. We are living a streak of titles that are compounded in the Viking experiences that are leaving the poor Nordic pantheon without wanting more popularity. Expand your domains, search for food and other resources … and survive the cold winter! Story As the head of a Viking clan, you will go on adventures in this real-time strategy game that, has the virtue of entertaining both new players and veterans alike.