Elvenar vs Northgard
Elvenar
Elvenar , developed by Innogames, is a free-to-play, browser-based, city-building game set in a beautiful magical world filled with mysteries. In this game, you'll need to build your city from the ground up and develop it via various building upgrades to bring about a golden era of economic boom and prosperity. With your wealth and armies to back you up, you can even set off to explore the vast World Map to acquire the knowledge of your wise ancestors and discover new technologies. Depending on your inclination, you may even opt for conquering your neighboring provinces by force, or by bribery. Which type of ruler are you? Play Elvenar now and find out!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.