Valknut

Viking ships and fishing ships are sailing on land. Game crashes. After tutorial the game menus came unresponsive. Refund requested.

The most incomplete, stupidest, unplanned game I have ever played. DO NOT BUY IT!!

This looks like it could be a fun game in the vein of the Anno series, but in its current state it's almost unplayable. The mechanics may be working but with no instructions or informational tooltips you're going to be absolutely lost trying to figure out. The tutorial tells you to build a harbor, then stops once that's done. Okay... so what resources do I need to start hauling in? I'll build a fisherman's hut, a house, and two farms for berries and peas. For ten habitants that should be fine. Guess I don't need roads, everyone seems to be getting around fine. Hey, I see my house has fish, peas, and berries so I should be good for now. WAIT, SIX PEOPLE DIED OF HUNGER? HOW? How many people are in that house? How many can it hold? How do I know what's getting fed? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? Until a better tutorial or actual informative tooltips are added wait to buy this game. The possibility is there but until it gives even a hint of how things work I can't reccomend it in its current state.

The game features a ten-mission campaign, randomly generated skirmish modes, and a three-scenario tutorial (although you can’t access the third mission). The interface is entirely too small at high resolutions, there a limited keyboard hotkeys for performing actions, you have to manually rotate buildings (it won’t figure out the correct orientation on its own), and informative tool-tips about population and resources are not present (I have no idea what half of the icons mean, nor how many people work in a building or live in a house). Raw resources (wood, iron, stone, clay) are collected at certain buildings and processed at others (pottery, jewelry, rope, tools); only certain resources can be produced on each island (typically limited to specific crops), which may have had interesting strategic repercussions if the rest of the game was better. People randomly die due to hypothermia or starvation before you have a chance to build the appropriate buildings and even if sufficient supplies are available. Also, resource stocks can fail to grow (especially wood) with no indication as to why (is the wood being used? do you not have enough population to collect wood? is there an extra processing step?). Valknut is an unfinished game that doesn’t provide enough information on how your town is running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp6OQ6wJLvw

Hi, This game should be still in early access and not fully released, it does have potential but just feels like someone got a city building kit then edit it some and released it. Maybe one day after few patches it will get to a point where you will enjoy it. For me that's not now i mean when the fisherman goes in land too get fish and with the few times when it comes out on the sea its just an boat and no human or such on it, there is still some work too be done before you should release it. In the end do have potential but need more work, i would recommend waiting with this game but keep an eye on it.

Should have been an early acces game, not a full release. Requested a refund.

It shows potential but lacks alot in terms of user guideance, for exampel tool tips. Without knowledge of citybuilder games you would be stranded completly helpless. I found the lack of "help" quite challenging and it woke my curiostity of finding out how the game mechanic works. It should have been a early acess release in my opinion. The pathfinding of boats and fishingboats need to be adressed since the cut straight through islands. So a chellanging citybuilder game in terms of you have to figure out how it works on your self! If you are uncertain, wait for more reviews to figure out if it is something for you!

Impossible to play without tooltips or useful tutorial.