Sons of Valhalla on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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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 war, strategy and city builder 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 807 reviews of which 550 were positive and 257 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.75€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 Ti (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 6850 (1 GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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This nice indie game is a fun one, and I definitely had some fun. The plot is fairly simple. The main character has to get his wife back, and pursues things, even after he died. The voice actors are great and did a good job bringing people to life. Combat is fun and easy, to master, and the system building bases, hiring mercenaries and kill the enemies. Side scrolling is quite nice and not necessarily bad. Just that it is short enough that it still is quite fun. The pixel art is cute, and gets the point across with the character and enemies. It is cool to see a ship go across and while you fight. It is also nice to see you can swipe and destroy a building. I also, enjoyed the music while in the game, and think it is a plus. The developers drastically changed the game in September 2024, after reading some terrible negative reviews, which made things very different, and much better if you ask me. Before, it was rough and repetitive, and lack diversity that made it lack interest, and borderline monotonous. After the patch, I love it now. The levels are shorter, and bit more varied, so I think ti is good. Only bad thing is that, I paid $30 USD for it, and yet, the price lowered to $19.99 afterwards. I didn’t like it as much. Overall, Score 5/10 BEFORE the September 2024 update. Score 8/10 AFTER September 2024 update. Recommendation: yes. Achievements: 2.5 hours Replay value: no
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"accidentally clicked "restart level" on the menu and it immediately undid my entire progress on a level. not sure why there's not a "are you sure?" for quitting the game or restarting the level. crazy oversight that just made me waste two hours of my life, of a time I was actually quite proud of grinding out. all just gone, poof. cause I misclicked" - original review and it still stands. but having beat the game and played a bit of the Horde mode, the gameplay loop is addictive. can be repetitive, if you try to stick to one play-style, but there's a varied amount of units and ranged weapons to experiment with that make for a fun time (example: cover the ground in tar, then let your fire archers set ablaze all enemy battalion charges) very satisfying to learn and prevail, very fun. hope they make a sequel, or DLC. glad to turn my review around. the quality of life improvements they could make would save some headaches, but worth the price, especially if you like supporting indie devs!
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Almost a perfect game. I loved the pixel art animation and the fact that the entire game is voice acted was not a detail I overlooked. Wow! A real masterpiece. Cant wait for the DLC or sequel. I want to see more units and building types in the future to further diversify gameplay. A jump mechanic would be nice as well.
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I hate to base my opinion of one game on my experience with another, but the only reason I got this game is that it looks like it takes a lot of inspiration from the Kingdom series. The short way to describe this game to me would be - Kingdom, but a MOBA instead of a Tower Defence game. A one-dimentional MOBA is what Sons Of Valhalla feels like for the most part. You walk back and forth around in your camp, gather supplies, prepare your army and then attack and conquer the enemy bases one by one. The game also features a combat system that's inspired by the Dark Souls series with invincible rolls and a stamina bar that you have to keep an eye on. I was personally more interested in the tactical aspect of the game so the boss fights felt more like chore to me for the most part. Also, having the ability to fight through enemy hordes on my own with no warriors by my side weakened the joy of the game's tactical aspect. That's the game's main campaign mode. You travel between 5 different stages and go through a simple but effective "save the princess" story with beautifully drawn pixel art cutscenes and pretty good voice acting. The game has two other play modes: 1. A stealth game called "Raya's Escape" where you play as the princess trying to escape her prison, which I personally found to be very clunky to play as it doesn't feel great to use the game's default controls for accurate character movement. Also, the game froze every time I got captured and I had to restart at the tutorial so I lost my patience very fast. 2. A horde mode where you have one base and get waves of enemies coming at set intervals. The fact that you can't interact with your base at all while getting attacked makes this mode frustrating. And it leans heavily on the game's combat mechanics rather than it's tactical aspects. To sum up, Sons of Valhalla is a fun, short game that mixes tactics with action in a rather simple yet enjoyable package. It leaves a few things to be desired; Maybe multiplayer co-op or PvP; Maybe a better survival mode where you're getting attacked from both directions except for just the right side of the screen; but it's definitely a worthwhile experience.
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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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Sons of Valhalla is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Sons of Valhalla is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Sons of Valhalla received 550 positive votes out of a total of 807 achieving a rating of 6.57.
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Sons of Valhalla was developed by Pixel Chest and published by Hooded Horse.
Sons of Valhalla is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Sons of Valhalla is not playable on MacOS.
Sons of Valhalla is not playable on Linux.
Sons of Valhalla is a single-player game.
Sons of Valhalla does not currently offer any DLC.
Sons of Valhalla does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Sons of Valhalla does not support Steam Remote Play.
Sons of Valhalla is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Pixel Chest
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Release
05 Apr 2024
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