Island Experiment vs Northgard
Island Experiment
Island Experiment is a fun and addictive simulation game whereby you’ll get to join your fellow young adventurers on a treasure hunt to a remote and mysterious island. In this game, you’ll need to ensure the survival of your people on the island, as well as having sufficient resources, food, and tools to explore and map out the island. Experience various strange events and try to solve problems that arise in your adventures including how to cross a ravine. You can go spelunking in a deep cave for rare resources like iron and other valuable artifacts that you can then sell for cold hard cash too! If you’ve enjoyed games like Coral Isle, you’ll surely enjoy Island Experiment.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.