Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn is a first person horror game heavily inspired by Swedish folklore and the Nordic mythology to create the nightmares that's been haunting Swedish children for many generations.

Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn is a horror, indie and adventure game developed and published by Angry Demon Studio.
Released on November 27th 2017 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Thai and Japanese.

It has received 1,487 reviews of which 1,244 were positive and 243 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.08€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn into these genres:

Horror Indie Adventure Action Gore Mythology First-Person Violent Atmospheric Singleplayer Survival Horror Exploration Multiplayer Female Protagonist Stealth Puzzle Realistic Great Soundtrack Foreign

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 32/64-bit
Processor: Intel core i3 or equivalent AMD
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX460m
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 4 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

I tend to love anything spooky folklore related so I was already sold on the premise of a Swedish folklore horror game and I got exactly what I expected in that sense. Unforgiving is a good title for this, at times it was a bit brutal, I had to take off my headphones at one point because it was a bit too much but they were going for unnerving and they succeeded.

Feb. 2025

I'm not gonna lie. I loved this horror game. Although perhaps not as challenging and a little more like a horror walking sim, anything that dives into mythology is going to be an instant fav of mine. Some puzzles were a little tough, but that is mostly cause I wasn't always paying attention -- however, I loved the dark themes, the survival, and although the ending wasn't the best, it beats majority of standard horror game endings. All in all, I loved it, and I would recommend it for anyone wanting a good mythological driven horror game!

Dec. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Dec. 2024

In Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn, I couldn’t help but question the initial setup as it didn’t really make sense story-wise, but moving past that I was drawn into the protagonist’s trek through the woods. There were Swedish folklore-inspired monsters to either run from or sneak around; very much the typical indie horror stuff, including a limited light source and simple puzzles that required finding and using objects. It was linear by all accounts, yet it was possible to explore some areas. The thing that stood out the most was the harp, which was used to play notes that opened the way forward. I might not sound too enthusiastic overall, but while it didn't push boundaries or anything, it was a decent enough indie.

April 2024

'Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn' is a 2017 horror game and the debut game from the small little Swedish indie developers Angry Demon Studio. What we have here is a horror game rooted in Nordic Mythology, especially the Swedish kind. And it's pretty well done for being "kiddies first game". Needless to say it's a bit rough around the edges and you can clearly see that it's a studios first game. That said the core idea behind the game it is solid although not groundbreaking in any way. Since the game is set in Sweden and the characters are Swedish naturally the voice actors are in Swedish by default. As a Swede and a long time gamer I'm not used to that so when I first booted up the game and started to play and the voices started I was like "What language is that?" it took me two solid second before I was like "Oh.. it's my language!" Hahahaha 😆 The Swedish voice actors goes from excellent to pretty damn all right. Not bad at all for most likely being amateurs. They also have English voice actors but I didn't play the game with those so I can't comment on that. The music is pretty damn all right. It has the cosy/scary horror thing going on but with a Nordic flair to it, especially Swedish folk music is an inspiration at some places. I really like it. It's made by a guy named William Sahl, he's only credit for composing for this and other Angry Demon Studio's games so he might be a in-house composer, which is rare these days. 🙂 The game is very short be all means. I took it slow to soak up the atmosphere and I clocked out in 3 hours. And I don't think their are alternative endings to it (which is fairly common in horror games) but who knows maybe the internet hasn't discovered any yet. So except to get all the achievement the game doesn't really have much replayability. But I would advice getting it on sale anyway. If not just to support the fledgling developers. And the game as charm and some quality to it. And a sound premiss. Nordic Mythology and horror is a good mix and a Swedish forest in the dark at night with little to no light can be dangerous and freighting experience. And the game nail that atmosphere. Buh!! 👻

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