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After years of tireless explorations, brave Vikings have discovered a new land filled with mystery, danger and riches: Northgard.

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feillyne says

Early access review Agree (1) Disagree

Very hard to play, way too easy to fail or screw up. Outdated or irrelevant building categories. Buildings which are magically set on fire because of bankruptcy. Stored food eaten by rats you can't really protect yourself against. The game speed is too fast and there are no specific building/unit hotkeys which is utterly retarded, you need controls to micro quickly and properly, especially when you need to build fast something you need. No multi tasking actions either (issuing multiple orders, for example make the villager become a warrior and then go to the specified region using Shift key). Villagers do not automatically asign themselves to the building they built. Villagers who join the fight when they should stay out of it (yeah, there are 5 military units there in the region and the freakin' villagers join the combat and die, instead of running). Villagers cannot be recruited and their growth is a deciding factor in how fast you can develop or expand your clan in the late game, and making scout/warrior failures and losses more painful in the beginning.

Northgard graphics are beautiful, music is okay, the mood is splendid, but the game is completely unenjoyable because developers did not think someone needs to actually micro the game, and do it fast at that. The game supposedly holds great promise still, because of frequent updates made by developers, and it's cheap, but the execution of micromanagement is intricately flawed, at least at the moment.

Cons and issues:
Bad building categories. For example Mine is in the Advanced section. (Categories are Standard, Military, Advanced instead of Civic/Resource/Military/Advanced.) No building filters. Not to mention some building icons are similar (Lighthouse and Tower) which makes it harder to recognise which is which at first or when stressed.
No specific, particular building/unit hotkeys.
People are starving when they are not starving (happiness penalty for no reason), seems to be a glitch.
No quickbar icon or button to recruit or re-recruit your warchief/berserker/shieldmaiden.
Neutral clans that randomly attack your territory just because, no beforehand diplomacy whatsoever is involved.