2020: My Country vs Northgard
2020: My Country
2020: My Country is the follow-up to the smash hit, My Country, which had more than 15 million players around the world during its peak. In this amazing free-to-play city-building game, you will need to develop and manage a futuristic metropolitan in addition to dealing with the day-to-day problems and occasional disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, in your city. Decorate your city with a variety of leafy greens that will help brighten up the grayish concrete jungle of office buildings and high rises. You can even manually customize your parks in this game!Managing a city isn't a job that just anyone could do, and being the mayor, you are given the crucial task of keeping your people happy and ensuring that their needs and wants are met. Will you be able to develop your dream city?
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.