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A beautifully hand-crafted real-time micro strategy with Vikings.
Your home is under attack. The king is dead at the hands of Viking invaders. Hope is a distant glimmer in the fog, fading fast with every passing moment. As you rise to take your father’s place as ruler, it will fall to you to stage your defences. But make no mistake – this is no fight for victory, but a desperate grasp for survival. Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island. Everything is at stake: fail, and watch the blood of your subjects stain the ground red. It’s charmingly brutal, with beautiful procedurally-generated islands and adorable soldiers juxtaposed against the blood-stained realities of war. You control the broad strokes of the battle, giving high level commands to your soldiers who try their best to carry them out in the heat of the moment. It’s accessibly deep, with simple player inputs masking a dynamic combat simulation that make it inviting to new players while challenging veterans. Keep fighting, warriors. Not for power or riches or glory, but for hope of peace to come once again in the harsh lands of the Bad North. Key Features REAL-TIME TACTICS ROGUELITE: Position and relocate your troops to fend off the Vikings, who each have their own counters to the threats you pose. Pick your battles and plan your evacuations carefully! Lose a commander and they’re gone forever; lose everything, and it’s game over! INTELLIGENT UNIT CONTROLS: You command the broad strokes of your defences and monitor positioning — your soldiers do the rest, navigating and engaging intuitively in response to the situation at hand. PROCEDURALLY-GENERATED ISLANDS: Each island is both stylistically charming and unique in its layout. Plan your strategies around every nook and cranny, for you only get one chance to save them from the enemy invasion. UNLOCKABLE UPGRADES: A stronger, smarter defence leads to greater rewards. Use these to develop your subjects from a ragtag militia into seasoned warriors.
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UPDATE DLC REQUIRED: Please collaborate with the Chinese studio and provide global players with their updates. - New content would be great and well received. thanks.
- Aatif Awan · v2.00.22
Probably put a good 20 hours into this one. Fun game overall with interesting tactics lots of content to grind through (normal, hard, and very hard mode + achievements).
- Ben Bollig
It's a ok action strategy game. Not my type of genre but it's good.
- Vu Gu · v2.00.22
Game is bugged, Start button is not working
- Pranav Mamidwar · v2.00.22
Relatively simple Rock-Paper-Scissor-esque concept but well fleshed out. Good map design with lots of variation. Special commanders allow for extended strategic and tactical management as well as min-max optimization for each wave. Great atmosphere and I love the unit design.
- Florin · v2.00.22
iam going to pull it through with commentaries.
- Felix Tantsch (DroidaytimerWahr) · v2.00.22
waste of time
- Ivan Parsons
wish there was a sandbox mode you would pick any commander you unlocked with full customisation and you can pick unlocked enemies to spawn from a certain direction with any number you would like. that would be a great update.
- Mr abd · v2.00.22
played all difficulty, but killing 1000 and 1500 viking achievements are bugged. I have tier 3 archers w 2000 kills that dont unlock the achievement
- Jesus Carreon
so fun
- JINXSPR0 · v2.00.22
I love this game, it's so much fun and the sound design is very funny.
- Julian Delgado · v2.00.22
Up there with the very best strategy games available on mobile.
- Thomas Moes · v2.00.22
great strategy game, w real consequences and pretty realistic feeling terrain
- christopher ousley
Don't understand why a premium "offline" game wan't permission for full network access and my advertising id. Excellent game though.
- Zachary Bowen · v2.00.22
Viking Kababs
- Leo Forst · v2.00.22
Great I just want a bit more content
- Paul Nave · v2.00.22
Great strategy games. I wish it was longer or they add more levels. I beat the game in a day but am still having fun using different types of weapon/skill combos to see what is the best. take pride in your swordsman and archers, they are your best men.
- Brandon Wood · v2.00.22
love the game, simple yet fun
- Yosia Manurun · v2.00.22
Amazing game it is! Will be there any updates for the multiplayer coop edition, in which we can control more than total 4 troops for each island? That would be wonderful!
- Công Anh Luân Nguyễn · v2.00.22
fix your bugs. I can't have starting traits and items because it disappears even though I complete an campaign with successfully defended those traits and items
- James Josh Macas · v2.00.22
amazing game little buggy but i was happy to play it.
- Seiya · v2.00.22
I think the premise of the game is pretty good, but the execution is lacking. The skill trees are pretty boring and I find the abilities often just don't even work. The ability can do ok sometimes but the volley of arrows has a tiny area of effect and it's really hard to time. The mine goes off before enemies even reach it. Then there is very little telegraphing of how strong the enemies are, and from one level to the next they suddenly get way stronger and your commanders have permadeath.
- David Rzepa · v2.00.22
it was fun when the Start button worked, now it won't run tried reinstalling it but it still doesn't work
- Thomas R · v2.00.22
what a perfect little game. challenge and fun balanced in a great way while presented in a beautiful art style. the procedurally generated islands trigger something in my brain. I could stare at them for hours imagining the wider world which is implied. the only gripe i have is that there isnt more of it. this seems like such an obvious base for more expanded content, but I suspect this wont ever happen because the game is already a completed project. its perfect as it is.
- Marcello · v2.00.20
Overall very good game but it does a terrible job at explaining you how it works. Considering that the game is pretty unforgiving it's quite infuriating having to learn the hard way certain mechanics. 🙄 Just make a decent tutorial already. 🤷♂️
- Arthur Tainturier · v2.00.22
stupid game
- Nick Klynsmith
RTS that you diffenitly will enjoy
- Zyad Qutub · v2.00.22
2026, still holds up.
- William Barry · v2.00.22
I love how this game puts you to the test, where you can't just brute force a stage/island to win. Proper team comp, positioning, and timing is a must. You'll be forced to challenge islands especially some islands that are complex. And has simple mechanics to understand. But I found a glitch, when my archers attack the enemies, sometimes they miraculously disappear and spawn somewhere on the island. Suddenly I'm ambushed from behind. Please fix it. Overall, the Game is Challenging and Great. 👍
- Dylan Grant Areniego · v2.00.22
one of the best games I've played!
- Shashank K · v2.00.22
cool game
- Audrey Dalton
good game but my 10 hours in save got wiped. Play this game if you are ok with your progress getting randomly erased for no reason
- Timofy · v2.00.22
Meh
- Dustin Hoke · v2.00.22
great games
- Peter Ortega · v2.00.22
I would normally say this is 5 stars as I genuinely enjoy the game a lot, but in the last year or so I've been unable to play because of a bug. Every time an enemy is knocked out of a boat they teleport randomly, often landing on the island and ruining my strategy. This has persisted through two separate phones, and despite me resetting my game data from Google play. Despite this, I haven't found anybody else talking about this issue. If there's a solution I'd be happy to hear it.
- caw · v2.00.22
Not in the least but entertaining.
- Myles Drysdale · v2.00.22
This game will test your strategy.
- Joseph Ian Manalansan (Ianpaulman) · v2.00.22
My money that i spend was worth it. For the first time again i felt like i didn't waste a single penny. Please, add more level and mode to the game, it's so short and it makes me sad about it. Update it please.
- Gianne · v2.00.22
very fun
- Sam Rees-Whippey · v2.00.22
Great game, but no updates make it boring... It would be nice to add cavalry squads... It would be terrific to see a full scale version, perhaps one with Multiplayer and land battles. Still, in my opinion it's the best micro strategy game out there. Graphics and Music 10/10
- Runner Blockade · v2.00.22
it's super fun
- janice sanchez · v2.00.22
Having tons of fun so far!
- Karson Turpie · v2.00.22
fun for a little then blah
- Joseph Hager · v2.00.22
Best mobile game by far! Minimal interface yet acheiving great gameplay. Hing replayability as well.
- Deyvid Dimitrov · v2.00.22
played this game a lot so I think I can judge it fairly. Overall, a very entertaining, simple to understand premise that still allows for strategizing. One problem with this game is that it's a little buggy. Archers can shoot Vikings off the boat, and instead of dying in the water, they'll teleport on the island and mess up my defences. another problem would be variety in the game. adding a new defence, mode or enemy would be a breath of fresh air. 4/5
- Ravin Prasad · v2.00.22
one of my favorite games in YEARS. Simple but challenging... fun And ever changing... it is pretty freaking fun.
- Danny Groshong · v2.00.22
I got this free with the Google play pass thingy. it's a chill game and I like the design. I enjoy this type of game so I found it pretty engaging and playable, hopefully other people do too.
- Fiona Wilson · v2.00.22
I couldn’t even click on the start button! I have no clue what the game is like, and I can't even get a refund for this.
- Tim Kunz
This is fun. My only complaint is I wish the font was a little bigger. All these games need to start adding a setting to make the font bigger it's not just you guys. 4 outta 5. Got it on play pass but it's easily worth the money on replay value alone.
- Daniel Wheeler · v2.00.22
(sarcasm) It's awesome to get to Level 3 and have no troops to defend with... Some learning curve. Uninstalled.
- Brooks Syrcle
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