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In my 30 hours of play, i just couldnt continue due to 2 reasons. 1. colony management feels very restrictive. It feels that i still have to do most of the work even though i have 20 villagers. 2. The combat feels clunky. Even though these points have made me quit, i do think that this game has quite a lot of potential. I dont recommend the game right now but maybe in the future with a couple of updates.

I do like this game. But after a few restart it get tiresome to start from scratch. A few mods exists that makes life easier. Apperently Devs do not like it. Me, I'm getting tired on the grind marathon, that the mods eased up and let me enjoy the game. So Devs says play like we say the boring way or buzz off. Me I'am more if you do not wanna make the game enjoyable to play over and over, then you buzz off.

At first I thought, ok just Valheim with modern graphics, but no, this is a colony simulation game where you also spawn and handle villagers and arrange tasks and micromanage tasks and set up logistics, outposts, defences and so on. I was pleasantly surprised and I am looking forward to where this game will go in the future.

Very fun game. Is like Valheim but with settlement sim mechanics. Very fun for coop with my partner. Can be very dificult tho if get rough map seed. Villager AI can be kind of dum and lazy and they not the best about make sacrifices for greater good of village. Do not understand why they complaining about 18 hour works days and being homeless whe my Viking Mommygoddess is chopping trees on 0 sleep and she have no actuall bark and stick shelter of her own and subsisting from borderline rotte mussels and random berry that could be toxic. Weak. They do not make Vikings like they use to. 10/10 should buy and play

Significant Inefficiency – Great potential, but flawed NPC AI and clunky mechanics ruin the experience TL;DR: The level of inefficiency in this game is highly frustrating. Due to the current state of the NPC AI, you are often forced to micro-manage and do everything yourself, as the villagers create more work than they actually alleviate. Despite numerous updates and patches, the core gameplay loop has barely improved. Here are the major areas that currently hinder the experience: 1. Villager AI & Logistics - Poor Pathfinding and Tasking: The NPC AI is highly inefficient. When preparing food in the kitchen (or working in other production buildings), workers do not gather ingredients in bulk. Instead, they repeatedly walk back and forth to the raw food storage for every single individual meal or recipe. - Lack of Tool Integration: NPCs completely ignore available transport tools like sledges or carts. They prefer walking the same distance ten times when a single trip with a cart would suffice. - Limited Militia Range: It is currently impossible to rally the militia to an invasion portal using the Smolkr horn if the portal spawns slightly outside the base perimeter. 2. Maritime Mechanics & Exploration - Since launch, many updates have focused primarily on ships and islands, yet the sailing mechanics remain tedious. The wind direction feels unfavorable a vast majority of the time. - The automatic sail option frequently fails to adjust to wind shifts or steering inputs. When the automation fails, the only solution is to constantly leave the rudder to manually readjust the sail. - Idle Crew: Even with an 8-man crew on board, the ship becomes completely stationary when the wind is unfavorable, as there is currently no option for the crew to row. 3. Unclear Event Timers - Portal countdowns are highly unreliable, often displaying vague messages like "in X days" or "today is the day." Because "today" actually refers to a broad 24-hour window, players are left waiting indefinitely while their warrior NPCs starve. The UI desperately needs an exact countdown or clearer indicators for the winter invasion; otherwise, disabling them entirely is the only viable option. 4. Building, Crafting & Visuals - Missing Blueprint Presets: Newly constructed houses are completely bare. Every single piece of interior decoration must be crafted and placed individually, with no option to save layout presets for future buildings. - Frustrating Collision/Hitboxes: Interior decorations are poorly optimized. Certain items, like the sturdy armor rack, cannot be placed flush against walls, wasting valuable indoor space due to oversized placement boxes. - Terrain Flattening: The moment you level the ground, the grass texture is permanently removed, leaving the settlement looking barren and unappealing. - Obscure Progression: The crafting progression is entirely non-transparent. It is unclear whether leveling up depends on the volume of items crafted, the frequency, or the quality, leaving the player with no clear guidance. Conclusion: In its current state, the game is difficult to recommend. If you are looking for a satisfying Viking settlement management game, you will currently spend more time micromanaging flawed AI behaviors than actually leading your village.

For the love of god when you give this game proper mod support. Use the steam workshop.

It's definitely a great game, a nice village manager. Doesn't exactly hold your hand and guide you step by step, but it doesn't make things so complicated as you try and figure them out on your own. Still a few things to work on, especially as your village starts to get really big. Especially with sorting items, and the fact that clothing and tools don't decay when sitting on the ground so you can't exactly get rid of them in any logical sense. Having a furnace of some sort you can use as a clean up tool and get base components back would be nice or something. You can use a ho to "level" the ground and if there's items on there it will delete them so you can use that work around to remove tools or clothes nobody uses anymore. So that helps at least. Something that's definitely needed as it can really bog down the performance when you have thousands of items laying around on the ground. Anyway... needs a few touch ups, but even now in early release it's still really really good. Highly recommend.

if valheim and bannerlord had a child it would be this game i guess? no clue how to really describe the experience but its so cool im hooked, definitely try this out if you like an rpg that is also a colony sim

The fact that the shared progression setting for a persistent world is not on by default and all progress is wiped is a disincentive for me to keep playing this game considering how much time and effort it takes into building already compared to other survival crafter games. This game's attempt at approximating realism through tedium does not add to any fun. Not to mention but the UI is absolutely terrible. There are so many survival crafting games out there with an intuitive UI that this game lacks (example: item deconstruction/ingredient processing being separate than where you go for building anything such as tools/materials, in this game thatch->fiber) makes for a cluttered experience on top of an already slow game when crafting/processing materials could be achieved in a streamlined/unified building menu or a specific processing node. The game's commands also don't map out great to controller.

This game is incredibly buggy. Villagers don't perform assigned tasks, storage doesn't work properly, Played 100+ hours and lost all of my progress due to a corrupted save. This game is trash until it is fixed.