
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.14/day in the week to Aug 26 → 6.14/day in the week after.
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Position and relocate your troops to fend off the Vikings, who each have their own counters to the threats you pose. Pick your battles and plan your evacuations carefully! Lose a commander and they’re gone forever; lose everything, and it’s game over!
You command the broad strokes of your defenses and monitor positioning — your soldiers do the rest, navigating and engaging intuitively in response to the situation at hand.
Each island is both stylistically charming and unique in its layout. Plan your strategies around every nook and cranny, for you only get one chance to save them from the enemy invasion.
A stronger, smarter defense leads to greater rewards. Use these to develop your subjects from a ragtag militia into seasoned warriors.
Your home is under attack. The king is dead at the hands of Viking invaders. Hope is a distant glimmer in the fog, fading fast with every passing moment. As you rise to take your father’s place as ruler, it will fall to you to stage your defenses. But make no mistake – this is no fight for victory, but a desperate grasp for survival.
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island. Everything is at stake: fail, and watch the blood of your subjects stain the ground red.
With beautiful procedurally-generated islands and adorable soldiers juxtaposed against the blood-stained realities of war. You control the broad strokes of the battle, giving high level commands to your soldiers who try their best to carry them out in the heat of the moment. It’s accessibly deep, with simple player inputs masking a dynamic combat simulation that make it inviting to new players while challenging veterans.
Sums Steam only; Xbox, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
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ミニマムなRTS おもしろいよ デカい弓兵が嫌いすぎる
good fun. very cute design
A simple but fun defense game.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Turkish
| $3.15−79% |
| 165ratings |
| 80% |
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Hours played at review time, across 993 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Bad North is a lovingly designed RTS that I enjoy despite being very picky about the genre. You are vastly outnumbered and have to use tactics and the terrain to your advantage. Time slows when you select your commander and issue orders, and it's a good thing, because if there's one weakness of this game it's the tile selection. The islands are beautiful, procedurally-generated 3D terrains with some forced isometry, which are intuitive to understand and plan on, but it can sometimes be hard to select a specific tile that's, for example, surrounded by tall cliffs. My only other nit with the game is that the difficulty ramps considerably as you play. Despite enjoying 'Very Hard' difficulty for the first half of the game and finding the other difficulties sort of boring after a couple playthroughs, I've never managed to make it far into the second half of 'Very Hard'. The final battle feels like another level of difficulty higher.
不错的小体量游戏,塔防与即时战略结合挺有创意,游戏内兵种分工明确但兵种与道具太少
Fun minimalist strategy game. It's harder than it looks!
很有新意的游戏,但这家的老毛病就是明明能有很多东西能做,结果就是不愿意搞,产能也低得可怜。本家游戏说是不打算再更新了,手游被国内工作室带去开发,想整点官方新内容的可以去taptap
Polished game with satisfying strategic combat.
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