Mind the Vikings

Cannot recommend a purchase at this time. Devs are on vavcation til the new year. the idea for this game was ambitious but realistic, however the developers made comments after every single update that they were exhausted, shattered, drained, etc...yes game dev is hard work, but if such a low stakes product is destroying your soul, maybe it's not the right career for you.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, apparently the dev's "needed a break" and are now MIA.

An interesting little game with good potential. Rough around the edges with not a lot of meat on the bones - but good bones to build a game on. This game needs a lot more time in the oven, but could turn into something pretty fun, The camera motion, especially the rotation isn't to my taste. Would like to be able to rotate with the mouse. Also rotating around a point ahead of the camera would feel better (to me) then spinning on the camera's vertical axis. The rotation gave me a headache in the same way FPS games can. The art style is nice, but the mix of low poly and textured is a bit odd. The UI style is also mix and matched. Some hand painted some not. Pick coherent styles and the game will look and feel better. Dragging and dropping the people onto their jobs is a clever and a new (to me) mechanic. However it was hard to know when the people were hovering over the object. A little more visual and or audio feedback would help with that. Also the person getting pulled around stayed at the same height as they were picked up at (I think) rather than following the terrain which also made it hard to know where exactly they would be dropped. I really like the visual of the roads once placed. Placing the roads feels a bit like using a tool in a game engine, which is fine, but could use some polish. I didn't notice the vikings using the roads, but they are a nice visual addition if nothing else. The game started at 60-62 fps with a GTX 760 powering a 4k display. With ~15 vikings that frame rate started to drop to 50 fps. So there's plenty of room for optimization. This isn't a game that needs a high frame rate, but still interesting to see such a drop (as a percentage) with such few vikings. Keep this in EA for a good long while! Add features and polish the game. I look forward to following the game and seeing where it goes.

BUYER BEWARE. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. The developer just now returned, after almost two years of silence. Not a single word from anyone at Miso Games about if and when they would come back. Nothing. Not a single apology given by the developer upon the return, just a bunch of whining about people being negative about a game that was for all intents and purposes abandoned immediately after the initial launch. Were you really expecting us to cheer for your return after this abysmal treatment of your customers? The game itself is a big fat bunch of "MEH". With a poor interface, bad optimisation, missing options, and the list goes on. Some annoyances after just 5 minutes in the game include: No volume control. Completely randomly functioning music volume control. Interface elements overlapping each other, rendering the escape\quit option impossible A general clunky feel of the entire thing. This is NOT a product you want in your collection. I'd say "At this time", but I fully believe this developer will take the money and run after the 50% sale is done, and the COVID-19 crisis is over. This has the distinct feel of "Well, society is closed so we may as well try to cash in a bit more on that game we gave up on a few years ago".

Tons of promise, but currently abandonware. They've not updated in nearly a year, saying they needed a long vacation. Hopefully they come back soon and finish the gamem

ITS DEAD!

I really like it so far, for an early access game. It has wonderful graphics that I love. I can't wait to see more added, such as rivers/streams, bigger maps, animals, possibly other enemy viking clans. It is rather short and lacking, but it's very very early access.

update jan 2021:this game was quite interessting and had good armosphere, but was abandoned. 1 of the devs returned to this project "with a vengeance". only to destroy all cool aspects of the old game. not shure if he knows what he is doing. anyways, its probably abandoned again. no update since his comeback. he blames corona. this game should go for free , since its just an experimental mess right now.

another early access fail dev team. FU

Really promising and intresting game! love the city building genre and having viking in it aswell? very good combination! But sadly the Devs has gone silent for like 7 months now. they said they wanted a vacation. but really? 7 months of silence? gotta give this a thumbs down. It sad, had high hopes for this game. but now it seems like another Early Access Fraud.