Grepolis vs Northgard
Grepolis
Grepolis is an Ancient Greek-themed MMO strategy game by Plarium where you will be establishing your own empire. Build your beautiful Greek city and develop it to bolster your wealth so you can mobilize a mighty army to help you defend your treasury and also to attack your enemies. You can even recruit legendary Greek heroes like Heracles to helm your battalions or to govern your cities. Interestingly, you will even need to choose to worship certain Greek gods or goddesses (you can't worship them all) to earn their favor and gain access to wield their divine powers. After all, every little advantage you can get can go a long way in this game. So, rise up now and show the world your brilliant leadership in Grepolis!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.