Northgard vs Valhalla Hills
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.
Valhalla Hills
Valhalla Hills is an impressive and very well-developed early access game that feels a lot like a completed game. In this game, you’ll need to gain enough honor in Odin’s name so you could return to Asgard with the help of your obedient Vikings. Help the adorable Vikings survive the procedurally generated environments and in return, you can get their help to clear the portal of any frost giants and other monsters. Hop your way across various maps and portals, and possibly – just possibly – you might be able to reach the Bifrost bridge and re-earn your place as the God of Builders in Valhalla!All in all, Valhalla Hills is definitely a game that will appeal to players who enjoy a very simplistic version of games like Craft the World. If you happen to be one of those players, don’t wait - Play Valhalla Hills today!