Northgard is a very much needed breath of fresh air into the RTS world. It feels, plays and it is indeed different, for the better.

Instead of clashing mindless hordes produced in minutes through click and click here you have to carefully manage a limited manpower pool. Soldiers are men absent from the settlement economy and that comes at a cost. Buildings and units have upkeep and every casualt can impact your campaign.

Did I mentioned varied victory conditions?

There are clear trade-offs between focusing on tech, expansion or domestic economy. The game will challenge you at everyturn.

It is, simply put, a masterpiece of the genre, oh whose developers we can only hope they keep building upon.

The only minus I am aware of is the still limited lore and stories to explore ingame, that can easily be fixed though.

Northgard is a very much needed breath of fresh air into the RTS world. It feels, plays and it is indeed different, for the better. Instead of clashing mindless hordes produced in minutes through click and click here you have to carefully manage a limited manpower pool. Soldiers are men absent from the settlement economy and that comes at a cost. Buildings and units have upkeep and every casualt can impact your campaign. Did I mentioned varied victory conditions? There are clear trade-offs between focusing on tech, expansion or domestic economy. The game will challenge you at everyturn. It is, simply put, a masterpiece of the genre, oh whose developers we can only hope they keep building upon. The only minus I am aware of is the still limited lore and stories to explore ingame, that can easily be fixed though.