This brings up the games most compelling system, economic resource management. Your scouts first need to explore a tile before you can then colonize it which will cost food, a precious commodity in Northgard. You’ll constantly need to expand if you want to develop more buildings.īut any expansion will be expensive. Tiles act like small regions where you can only build a certain amount of buildings. Having tiles in a real-time game like this seems odd at first but their implementation is well done. What immediately is different about Northgard from other real-time strategy games is its tile system. Each of which has their own bonuses and abilities. You begin with a few villagers, a collection of buildings, and resource nodes.įirst, though, you’ll have to choose one of the many Viking clans to play as. Gameplay in NorthgardĪ Northgard game starts out simply, like almost any other RTS. It does this through intuitive but intricate resource management systems, that use scarcity to produce tension and forces you to make impactful decisions. But the simplicity of its appearance obscures the strategic depth and the brutal survival elements at play here.
At first glance, Northgard takes a board game-like approach to its design. The game first and foremost is about survival. Northgard takes place in a fantasy Viking world, where you’ll be trading with Kobolds, fighting off Draugrs, and trying to piece together bits of ancient lore to research new technology. And your enemies, who seem so strong from the outside, are just as fragile as you are. Your fierce warriors are one bad move away from death, losing out on all those resources you spent on them. Little about Northgard is as it seems, the cute Viking settlement you build is actually a complex economic engine, one that is always on the brink of collapse.
Northgard is a real-time strategy game released in 2017 by Shiro Games. You lead a Viking tribe settling on a new island fighting for survival against nature, the elements, and rival Viking clans all in an attempt to try and claim victory.
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