Northgard vs The Settlers Online
Northgard
Northgard is a rather unique city-builder/strategy game that allows you to lead a group of Northmen to unknown new shores in hopes of making a life there. Like most city-building games, you'll need to help them set up a home, assign your Vikings to perform various roles, ensure there is enough food to feed the entire village, and amass a small army to help defend your territories from other hostile clans. The strategic aspects of the game may not be obvious at first but you'll quickly realize that new territories that you discover (you don't exactly need to conquer it for this to work) will present new strategic opportunities for your clan to expand or grow, be it new sources for food or a nice place to set up a new trading post. There are many victory conditions as well, so it's not always "kill or be killed" in this game.Northgard offers players a single player experience by playing with AIs with various personalities or with their friends online. However, many players have reported that the game does have a somewhat flawed AI-player relationship. Even if you're best buddies with an AI's clan through healthy trading relationships, their clan members will still attack your people, which frankly feels a lot like a betrayal. It'd be nice to have a tutorial as well.
That said though, Northgard is an impressive game especially if you enjoy a bit of city-builder/strategy game like Valhalla Hills.
The Settlers Online
The Settlers Online is a unique and timeless MMO strategy game developed and published by Ubisoft. Instead of focusing on player-vs-player combat like most strategy games do, the game places a lot of emphasis on resource and land management, along with crafting and trading. You can build armies, naturally, but you'll use them to fight hordes of bandits rather than other players to acquire great rewards and new land. You can also capture colonies or participate in PvP expeditions too. Join a guild and work with your new friends to rank up your guild on the leaderboard.Although The Settlers Online has been around for more than half a decade, the game is still updated constantly with events and new features, keeping the game engaging for its loyal player base and attractive to the newcomers. Find out why The Settlers Online lasted as long as it did by playing the game today!