Northgard vs Virtual Villagers: A New Home
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.
Virtual Villagers: A New Home
Virtual Villagers: A New Home continues the storyline after Virtual Villagers: The Secret City where your poor villagers managed to escape a huge volcano eruption on boats. However, the waves from the resulting tremors were too strong and these little people end up being washed to shore of another new island. As their leader, you'll need to help them get back on their feet and survive on this foreign island. Set up farms, build homes and research new technologies to help your tribe grow and thrive.In addition to the usual features that had helped the game franchise gain a pretty large following, this game also offers fun puzzles for you to solve. So, continue the exciting adventures of these virtual villagers in Virtual Villagers: A New Home!