Kaneva vs Northgard
Kaneva
Kaneva allows you to discover a world where the only limit is your imagination and the time you are willing to spend in it. Here you can make friends, create your perfect home and even have a shop that you can run to have a regular income.The shop allows you to sell items you make, from clothes to cars and everything in between. When you are not working there is a lot of playing to look forward to as well, from pool parties with friends to hitting the clubs and meeting new people there is so much to do in this huge world. If you are really into making things you can even enter a suite where you can create your own parts of the world, as real estate to sell or to make that perfect beach for you and everyone else to lounge on. Whatever you want to do there is an option in this amazing virtual world
Please note that the Kaneva servers are no longer live and there are new projects in development via their website.
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.