Knights and Brides vs Northgard
Knights and Brides
Knights and Brides is a magical adventure where you can become either a chivalrous Knight or a Talented Princess. Here you will create your own castle and fiefdom that will grow and grow. Discover amazing places, build your perfect palace and develop your lands into a thriving and profitable estate. You can also use your special items and status to take part in romances and alliances that can help you along your amazing journey.You begin with a small holding and from there you use your management skills, money and a bit of luck to create your perfect castle. There are lots of different ways to play with your friends and you can share items and help each other out. There is also a full romance system where if you are in a relationship with another character you can help each other with unique bonuses. There are also lots of themed events and special actions that make this game really a lot of fun to play.
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.