Recent reviews by ArdathBey

Thoroughly enjoyed the story, the universe and the combat. The length is about right, it doesn't overstay it's welcome. This is not a "fighting" game though - the combat is well done, but limited to a base set of moves that doesn't expand. The game presents a good mix of environmental puzzles and combat, in a unique and often horrifying setting.

My experience was marred by a couple of bugs, one forced me to lose about 50 min of gameplay, others were just annoying glitches.

First and foremost the game has some great looking locations. It is a slow paced game with a few elegant puzzles that rely on you picking up the cues, no explanation needed. The folklore is well applied, and the graphics are beautiful.

It is not a fast paced game, the action is sparse and not the centerpiece, instead it takes you on a limbo-esque folklore journey. The folklore aspect reminded me a bit of never alone, though it is a very different game, but if you liked that particular aspect maybe this is for you too.

Educational game, lacks polish.

This game has something going for it, but also lacks polish.

First and foremost I recommend this as an educational game, it is almost like playing through a short documentary. It has a lot of clickable stuff where you can read about different stuff in the viking world. I knew most of the facts, but for someone not from Scandinavia there might be some new things to learn.

From a game perspective there is a lot of hunting for little coins, hammers (that let you choose specific viking deities when ever you collect 3 of them), talking to people, doing small quiz-like dialogues, spot errors in the form of items not belonging to the time etc.

Where it lacks is instructions on how to play. For example it took me some time before I found out how to spin the camera (hold right mouse button down), the voice acting is in Danish, but text is in English, which might be a problem for kids, also voice acting clearly isn't super professional.

In the end I will recommend this game to promote educational games, I think games like these are really cool and I don't mind it being short, the price point might be a tad too high though. If you expect a Telltale quality adventure game this is not it.