FATED: The Silent Oath
I really wanted to like this game and, maybe after a few updates I will but, for now, I can’t recommend it to anyone. The experience is short. Very short. You’ll be done in a little over an hour. The previews have made the game look like a lot more polished experience than it is. Below are the issues which I have encountered.
1. The Game Doesn’t Launch in VR Mode - I was unable to run the game on muy HTC VIVE until I set the executable (“jottun.exe”) into Windows 7 compatibility mode, which was extremely frustrating to troubleshoot.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
A beautiful hour-long narrative experience which in my opinion has held up magnificently, even 5 years later.
Unfortunately the ending is abrupt, unearned, and does not follow through on or explain a worryingly large amount of narrative promises. It turns what was until that point a gorgeous and impactful VR game into a confusing and disappointing experience, and really makes it seem like the devs had intended this to be one game in a series of instalments. Once I had that realisation, I began searching for news of a sequel and found that a second episode had been planned years ago and even made significant progress, but never materialised for unknown reasons.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Playing History: Vikings
Old school gameplay type with point and click action.
The game sells for cheap, but that doesn’t mean it’s one of those trashy games, sure this game has some rough edges and a bit of QOL could of made it more pretty and even smoother, but it’s totally playable and enjoyable, it has replay value which is great too. The game main function is to educate people about the Viking culture and you do this with Erik as he go about doing quests, meeting people, be they friends, enemies or merchants. You learn pretty much everything based on the viking culture from raiding enemies to living life as an actual viking. Some in game object s can be interacted with to offer up more information regarding specific topics.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
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Tags: Casual - Youth
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TLDR: Too stressful to worry about anachronism, poor historical representation while trying to enjoy what should be a laidback game.
Due to this being marketed as somewhat educational and since the work has not been put it to make it worthwhile in that manner, it makes it a dubious product for children. Best to play something that is fiction and inspired by historical events or play a proper historical game. This kind of akward in between with minigames with a primitive engine and childish tone just accomplishes nothing by trying to touch too many bases.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
The Frostrune
The Frostrune is an elegant point-and-click adventure, with strong, authentic Norse culture.
The story is set in and around an abandonned, coastal hamlet. The environment feels great. I used to live in Norway, and could see the familiar lighting and landscape features in the portrayal in the game). The hand-drawn art style is consistent and rich - a quick look at the trailer on the Steam Store page will give you a feel for it. The animations are simple, but very effective. Overall, I like it very much.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
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The Frostrune is a point-and-click adventure game. It’s set in ancient times on a Nordic island, and its story is drenched in Norse mythology.
As soon as you launch the game, it’s clear The Frostrune is a basic production. You’ll find an option to change the game’s resolution and language, and that’s it. The latter option is crucial, though. Since the entire game’s narrative is in Old Norse speech, you’ll rely on subtitles to understand what’s actually being said. Subtitles are available in English, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Arabic, Norwegian, Russian, French and German.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Kyn
Remember Dungeon Siege? That cool looking RPG by Gas Powered Games (currently known as Wargaming Seattle)? It was pretty slow game, but there was certain something in it that makes people remember it even today. Even more so because the third installment in Dungeon Siege series was completely different from previous two and was more like consoles-oriented action game than what everybody used to enjoy. Why am I telling you all that? Well, the thing is, Kyn is a lot like the very first Dungeon Siege. Actually, you can even tell that it’s a Dungeon Siege III everybody wanted. In a way.
– Real player with 107.4 hrs in game
Review updated after 80%+ completion.
TL;DR? Scroll down to pluses and negatives.
Visually Kyn resembles Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (though less polished), which I’m going to admit I find very pleasing. The music sounds at times like it could have come straight out of Torchlight 2, generally it has a fitting Celtic vibe. The atmosphere of the game is, therefore, highly satisfying.
Gameplay-wise, this puts me in mind of an MMO more than a typical hack&slash. You hit space to slow the game to a crawl, issue commands to your fighters, then hit space again to see the commands executed in real time. You don’t need to keep clicking to attack. You cannot pause for long, which gives the game a more intense feel than others with a Real-Time pausable combat system.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
Trial by Viking
This is one of my favorite indie platformers. It starts off relatively easy and then becomes gruesomely difficult over the course of 130 hand-crafted levels. You run around collecting Sunstones which can be used to purchase better stuff - magic axes, a grappling hook, double jump, etc - which you’ll need to take down tougher challenges. Levels can be repeated to collect Sunstones or bonuses you may have missed, or just to get a better time (the game is speedrun-friendly). There’s a lot of level variety: bosses/minibosses every 5 levels, mobility challenges, puzzles, lots of new mechanics being introduced throughout the game, hidden areas, etc. Impressively, the whole thing was put together by pretty much one guy.
– Real player with 69.8 hrs in game
After 25+ hours of playing this on normal, I’d say this is a very good, almost great game. My attention span for games seems to be around 15-20 hours but this kept me interested the whole time, up through about level 103 out of 130. And I’d still be playing it if it weren’t for the dark holes.
They are not fun. At all. They are like gravity holes that suck you in and spin you around them. They are highly annoying and hard to escape without falling to your death. It was a ton of fun for the first 100 levels but I lost interest after fighting dark holes for 30 minutes.
– Real player with 25.8 hrs in game
Viking Saga: New World
Fun, interesting game with new ideas. Once you learn the start build formula it’s much easier, but you’ll still be challenged accomplishing goals. Each new land/map adds elements so it stays fresh enough throughout the game.
The hardest part for me was dealing with the fires. Wow, thought there was no way until I tried putting out 1-2 fires on nearby islands before building anything. That was the secret for 3 stars!! Had to play plenty of levels over for 3 stars so I appreciated the challenge.
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
When I purchased this game, I had no idea what I was in for considering that the trailer, screenshots and blurb gave absolutely no useful information about the gameplay mechanics, genre or overall target audience.
However… I’m happy with my purchase. It’s not a smash hit, but I think it’s very well done.
The best way I can describe this game would be as a Settlers clone. For anyone who is a fan of Time-Management and/or Strategy Games, Viking Saga: New World will be an instant classic for you.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
Viking Saga: The Cursed Ring
Wonderful game to fill those few mintues or an evening. You get caught up in the excitement and don’t want to quite.
– Real player with 160.6 hrs in game
A good time management game.
Even if I prefer the 12 Labours Of Hercules serie, this one do the job too.
If you can get it in a bundle, you will not regret it.
Durability : around 15/17 hours on hard difficulty.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
Viking Squad
Do you enjoy classic “beat em' up” games such as Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and so on??? Are you a fan of cartoony styled art like those found in games such as Castle Crashers and Gang Beasts??? Well you’re in luck, because the devs at Slick Entertainment got you covered with their latest entry into the world of indie gaming with Viking Squad. A co-op brawler that is as much fun to play solo as it is to tackle with a band of your buddies. The plot is pretty simplistic within it’s self: Choose a viking (from four playable options) and see how much treasure you can plunder from the enemy’s clutches. Stylistically, the game is extremely colorful and vibrant. Lead Artist Jesse “The Drawbarian” Turner gives you amazing aesthetics similar to the “cutesy-chibi” art style of The Behemoth’s Dan Paladin, but with more of a comic book feel. As an artist myself, I have to rave about the art direction in this game: Jesse’s work is just too awesome for mere words to convey. This title is worth the price of admission on visuals alone…
– Real player with 54.7 hrs in game
This game is good. DAMN GOOD.
Just a refreshing take on the beat em up genre with new ideas, but solid arcade gameplay.
Every character has a different play style in this game and the combat depth is decently deep. You’ll need more than mashing buttons if you’re going to make it to the late game.
The gameplay goes as follows.
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Go through a level bashing as many enemies as possible
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Survive and bring back treasure/loot to upgrade your character stats, and buy gear
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Use money to buy potions and keys for treasure chests (any unspent loot is disgarded)
– Real player with 28.4 hrs in game
Zombie Vikings
Only 6.1% of players have completed this game, and there are reasons for that. While this review is ultimately negative, it definitely qualifies as one of those mid-line negatives. (Thanks, Steam. -_-) My wife and I enjoyed the game overall (she more than I), but there are so many problems with it that I couldn’t recommend it in good conscience. The following are some of the more prominent problems that we encountered throughout the game:
- A game-breaking bug in the Tomb of Bork. We were unable to exit giant mode because the sign wasn’t there–twice. We were only able to complete the stage on our second attempt because the game glitched again, causing us to fall in a pit and consequently exit giant mode.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Status: Completed (played in 2-player co-op)
A truly fantastic game, which deserves much more attention than it got.
Presentation
Top-notch, gorgeous to look at hand-drawn graphics. You can practically make some screenshots during cutscenes and choose any of them as your wallpaper, they’re THAT good. Never wanted to skip a single cutscene (skipped only if needed to replay the level again). It’s like watching a cartoon, a really good one.
The levels are extremely detailed and unique, never felt like going through the same thing all over again.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Rune Classic
First thing I want to say is I have played this game A LOT before I got it on Steam so keep that in mind.
Now, there were a handful of games that me and my brothers played together a lot in my childhood, and every single one of these games brought many hilarious and awesome memories that I still remember.
Rune was one of these games.
My and my brothers played over LAN quite a bit, so I recommend playing this game with friends over private servers or LAN.
Its a blast to play this game with others, especially if you know the people your playing it with well. The fact that this game is so old makes it even more fun for me to play even now. It’s hilarious when you chop your enemy’s weapon arm off, because now thay have no arm, so all they can do is run! In a multiplayer match you can start to feel super awesome as you find things on the map with high damage and other items that increase your health, and so on and so forth.
– Real player with 107.2 hrs in game
This review contains events of the very beginning of the game and names a few enemy types. Other than that it is spoiler-free.
Rune Classic is a re-release of the original hack&slash game called Rune. You play as the young Viking Ragnar who just gets into the status of a warrior as the story begins. Ragnar’s village is one of the villages that are built around special rune stones. Those stones were created by the god Odin to keep his son Loki in his prison and thus preventing the great cataclysm that would follow if Loki was to be released. The warriors of Ragnar’s village belong to an order called the Odinsblade. It is their duty to protect the rune stones from all harm. When Ragnar is just accepted into the Odinsblade the people of Ragnar’s village learn that an allied village guarding on of the rune stones is being attacked and immediately set out to intervene. On their way they run into the viking Conrack who was responsible for the attack. Conrack is in league with Loki and is hellbent on destroying every single rune stone to release him into the world. Due to the powers that were granted to Conrack by Loki the people of Ragnar’s village are no match for him and he sinks their ship. Ragnar gets rescued by Odin and makes it to an undersea cave. With nobody else having survived the battle it’s on Ragnar to keep Conrack from destroying the stones. But to do that he has to make his way back to the surface.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game