
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.
About

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.
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Reviews
A roguelike real time tactical defense game. I liked the soldier progression with unique traits, class upgrades and their unique items. The main idea using the landscape to make genuine tactical decisions on an island makes each island unique. The downside is active skills, they feel underpowered compared to passive perks. The final grinding achievement (15 000 kills) is a little bit boring, in practice you can beat hard mode and get evey other achievements without killing a 10 000 vikings. Haven't really tried Very Hard, so maybe there's more depth there. I also don't recommend to buy DLC, unless you want to support developers. I recommend it for fans of minimalism and short-session games.
Good game
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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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i have about a dozen more hours on ps4, this game is really solid. the ability to juggle multiple units really makes you feel like a general leading an army, the sound design and artsyle only help to further this fact. overall if you like games where you need to manage multiple things and learn to fight unique enemy types this game is 10/10
Jogo incrível bom até demais😁, se tivesse uma atualização com mais classes mais ilhas progressos e inimigos, ou só um segundo jogo com tudo isso eu jogaria
A surprisingly fun little game. I'd suggest catching it on sale but it plays well and it's a good time. The app version is identical to this so if you want to play it as a mobile game that's an option. It's a simple game, but it requires both strategy and timing to pull off.
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Perfect Dad game. Its fun and easy to pick up. Reminds a bit of FTL.
good
Very unique and interesting gameplay, it gets a little repetitive if you play much, but is not a very long game. Is still worth, is hard to not enjoy the way the game is made
for every viking you kill the devs kill a swede in real life highly recommend
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