Adventure · March 7, 2018

Northgard: Definitive Edition (2018)

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Northgard Definitive Edtion: December 4th! FREE MAJOR UPDATES SINCE LAUNCH ⬇ 9. Bifröst - 2024 New game mode. Rally your friends, gear up, and join the race across realms to stop the Vanir’s assault! This mode welcomes up to 4 players, each with customizable skills, buildings, and perks. 8. Trials of Odin - 2023 In what is surely one of the most biggest and most impactful free updates we've released to date, you'll be greeted with new conquests, new warchiefs, massive clan overhauls/reworks, tons of balancing and more... 7. Sword & Solace - 2022 Sword & Solace brings significant improvements to the game's UI, aiming to unify options and information across different game modes. It also introduces a revamped Multiplayer GP system, enhanced Military aspects with more strategic choices and unique unit abilities. 6. Kröwns & Daggers - 2021 The Kröwns and Daggers update brings a host of new features, gameplay additions and even a new neutral faction to Northgard, with an increased focus on diplomacy, and a complete overhaul of how you develop and maintain relations with your fellow factions! 5. Expeditions - 2021 This patch introduces a new way to enjoy Northgard content and free cosmetics you can craft with in-game rewards! (And only ever via in game rewards, you will never have to pay money for these cosmetics). 4. Map Editor - 2020 The Map Editor update stands as one of our biggest updates yet and whole new level of customization to Northgard, allowing you to create and modify battlefields almost limitlessly, populating your maps with buildings, resources, decorations and AI factions of your choosing alongside full control over the visual design and layout of the map. 3. Conquest - 2019 Northgard Conquest is a standalone game-mode that can be played solo or co-op, with a succession of various challenges offering a gaming expansion of +100 hours. The difficulty of the co-op mode will be based on strong collaboration between players. Forget the lore, choose your clan and let's fight! 2. Relics - 2019 For some of them it happened as dream, for others as vision. For all it was a gift. And since that day, guided by the Gods, the sledgehammers resonate day and night through Northgard… The creation of Relics has been rediscovered! 1. Ragnarok - 2018 The map you’ll be playing on when choosing Ragnarok is completely devastated. Your path towards your opponents may be guarded by dangerous creatures! The center of the map is occupied by a new special tile: the Volcano. We also added a new music for this map! About the Game After years of tireless exploration, brave Vikings have discovered a new land filled with mystery, danger and riches: Northgard. The boldest Northmen have set sail to explore and conquer these new shores, bring fame to their Clan and write history through conquest, trading, or devotion to the Gods. Build your settlement on the newly discovered continent of Northgard! Assign your Vikings to various jobs and manage your resources carefully to survive harsh winters and ferocious foes. Expand your clan strategically by chasing conquest, fame, lore or trade victory. Survive and conquer the unforgiving wilderness of Northgard by mastering the unique attributes of the many different clans that inhabit the continent! Each clan has its own unique specificities, bonuses and features, introducing new ways of playing and methods to achieve victory. Conquest mode. Choose your clan and fight through a number of unique scenarios and situations! Northgard Conquest is a standalone game mode that can be played solo or co-op, with a succession of various challenges offering a gaming expansion of +100 hours. Multiplayer mode. Play in multiplayer with or against your friends in various game modes! Pick the lobby you want and face off against other players to experience a unique level of challenges. If you’re a veteran at the game, test your might in ranked lobbies to prove you’re the real king of Northgard! Story mode. The Viking High King is murdered and his Regal Horn is stolen by a man named Hagen. This event kickstarts a saga that will take Rig, his son and heir accompanied by his right-hand man Brand through the new continent of Northgard to discover the reasons behind his father’s assassination. Part II. Cross of Vidar Separated and left with no choice after Ragnarök but to abandon their land, Rig, Liv and Svarn arrive in Neustria, land of the Southern Kingdoms, where they meet new leaders and become embroiled in a series of conflicts and alliances.

Adventure releases from 2018

73 Adventure titles launched in 2018 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume64.7k Steam reviewsTop 3% in Adventure
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 70%
Metacritic81/100Genre average 77 — top 37% of Adventure titles
Concurrent peak1.2k playersTop 4% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours36 h averageTop 9% for session depth among Adventure

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 1.9k
  • City Builder · 1.9k
  • Simulation · 1.8k
  • RTS · 1.8k
  • Base-Building · 1.0k
  • Colony Sim · 977
  • Multiplayer · 975
  • Building · 969
  • Economy · 955
  • Tactical · 952
  • War · 944
  • 4X · 944
  • Management · 936
  • PvP · 926
  • Co-op · 923

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Polish
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Turkish
  • Italian
  • Korean volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Korean

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Other

  • Single-player
  • Includes level editor

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 64.7k reviews

55.6k positive · 9.1k negative

Metacritic

81/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

53.2k

Peak concurrent players

1.2k

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Engagement Profile

All-time avg

36h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

7h

Current engagement

Achievements

289

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 7, 2018
DeveloperShiro Games
Base price$13.99 -60%
DLC / Add-ons12 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Northgard: Definitive Edition