Sons of Valhalla
Sons of Valhalla is a combat and base-building game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses and lay siege to enemy strongholds, gather warriors and board longboats, and engage in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.
Sons of Valhalla is a strategy, rts and war game
developed by Pixel Chest
and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on April 05th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.
It has received 756 reviews of which 512 were positive and 244 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 9.99ā¬ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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Windows
- OS: WindowsĀ® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: IntelĀ® Coreā¢ i5-4670 (quad-core) / AMDĀ® Ryzenā¢ 3 2200G (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIAĀ® GeForceĀ® GTX 550 Ti (1 GB) / AMDĀ® Radeonā¢ HD 6850 (1 GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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This is one of those "I wish I could give it a neutral rating" games. I'm grudgingly giving it a thumbs up since I feel like I did get my money's worth out of it (I bought it on sale.) The graphics are really nice if you like pixel art. It's not even pretending not to steal Kingdom's presentation style, which is fine by me! The gameplay is different than Kingdom's in various ways, but also less interesting in various ways. Combat is the main activity, and upgrading buildings and training troops is secondary. Basically you go out, kill enemies, collect resources, upgrade your buildings and grow a small army, then attack and claim the next enemy position. It's not a terrible game loop and definitely works on paper, but it gets pretty grindy and repetitive. It's also missing the sense of exploration that Kingdom has, and the pacing is fairly flat - there are waves of enemies, but they're less distinct than in Kingdom and come in a relatively steady stream. They also aren't foreshadowed nearly as effectively in Sons of Valhalla - the setting sun doesn't mean much of anything, for example - in Kingdom you're constantly racing against the sun, trying to figure out how much you can get done before night because that's when you're going to get swarmed by enemies. There are a lot of collectible upgrades for the buildings and for your character, but most of them are just buffs to stats (for you or your troops) with the occasional new combat mechanic. Nothing terribly interesting, but it's somewhat fun trying to choose which upgrades to keep and which to discard. It also has boss fights with story beats as you move between regions on the map. The boss fights literally feel a little flat as well - I was wishing for some jumping gameplay during these. I did get hooked for a couple days, though. It's a linear game, and I got about halfway through before getting bored. I might finish it at some point, but I'm not in a big rush. If you're looking for something with a different take on the Kingdom formula and don't mind grinding, it's worth checking out, at least on sale.
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Finished it in 10 hours (with the new game + content), this game is a clone of Kingdom: Two Crowns with one major change in the gameplay: you can fight and you have to assault bases. What it does well: - Pixel Art is great - Boss fights are interesting, although a bit too easy - Shooting arrows and headshooting enemies is satisfying - The runes are a nice mechanic What it does not do well: - Be a clone of Kingdom See, the Kingdom concept is unique and its interest lies in the fact that you are always preparing to defend. Only towards the end game, you must start counter-attacking. In Sons of Valhalla, being the offender is more important than defending. In fact, you can probably play the whole game without being attacked once if you play aggressively. The other thing that I found wasnt done better than Kingdom was the building aspect; in Kingdom the fact that you can't build where you want is a fun part of the game, and forces you to expand sometimes in places faraway from your townhall, which often leads to some issues. In SoV, you always get the same layout for a base, which makes it a bit boring. I recommend it because I think it's a fun experience, but as you may have noticed, I find Kingdom much better. if you can afford it, buy both, and play SoV first.
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Is it kingdom two crowns? No. It is similar in the amount of attention it takes to play the game and in that the pixel art is very pretty and also you are constantly fighting to expand your territory. I enjoy upgrading myself and my soldiers and unlocking new weapons and abilities through new buildings and runes found after defeating enemies. The boss fights are simple but fun and actually that's a good way to describe the whole game. On the down side however the story so far has been meh and I probably wouldn't miss it if they got rid of it completely. Upgrading anything takes time for some reason, even once you have more than enough to pay the costs for the upgrades the upgrades themselves sometimes take a good 2 to 3 minutes to go through and wont apply retroactively to any of your units. Also because you are limited to a certain amount of manpower that all units count towards if your units aren't cutting it in their current state you will need to send them off to die and then wait for replacements which will probably leave you vulnerable to the never ending stream of enemies. Still its roughly what I wanted when I bought it but not quite worth what I paid for it, wait for a good sale.
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I was really unsure whether to give this a yes or no. The game starts pretty fun and there's definitely a ton of potential there. However...my experience (on hard mode) was not really good later on. And by later on, i mean just on the second stage. Basically, your character is pretty damn weak, and you can kinda cheese enemies with your power attacks to kill them, but that gets tedious. Since your troops are nearly entirely useless, you have to do all the work yourself, which means, 80% of your time is spent cheesing enemies with power attacks. The other 20% is you running back home recruiting more troops, and you usually can't because they cost too much resources and you just don't make enough. So the balance is off entirely, and it makes the gameplay worse. The whole point of this game is to recruit soldiers and send them to war, but your soldiers are useless so that defeats this point entirely. I'll give this a Yes, the dev put a lot of effort in this game and it has potential. I'll revisit it in a few months and if it didn't improve substantially it'll change to a No.
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As someone who has been hoping for people to start iterating on the Kingdom core concept for years, Sons of Valhalla is really delivering. The combat is much expanded upon here and there is an actual campaign with a story to play through. I'm really loving it so far. Will post more when I get further in!
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Online players
17
Developer
Pixel Chest
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Release
05 Apr 2024
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