Northgard vs Virtual Villagers: New Believers
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: New Believers
Virtual Villagers: New Believers is the latest sequel to the Virtual Villagers game franchise. Unlike many of its predecessor, this game allows you to finally come out from the shadows and reveal yourself to your virtual people as their god. However, to get them to start worshipping you like the god you are, you'll first need to make them believe in you!Using the many awesome godly powers, you'll need to impress your new believers by helping them out - and performing miracles - during their time of need and simply turn their tribe into a prosperous one. Of course, this game also provides players with all the features you all knew and loved, including exciting random events and brain-teasing puzzles.
Show your little virtual villagers your benevolence and might as their new god in Virtual Villagers: New Believers today!