Northgard vs Virtual Villagers: The Tree of Life
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: The Tree of Life
Virtual Villagers: The Tree of Life is the fourth installment of the Virtual Villagers game series where the mysterious island of Isola is showing signs of trouble. The chief of the villagers have decided to send an exploration team to venture to the eastern shores of the island in hopes of finding the cause of the problems and maybe solve them. This game contains all the features of the previous games - this means you'll need to set up a village and help populate the eastern part of the island as you send out people to explore the deeper parts of the island.With tons of new puzzles to offer, Virtual Villagers: The Tree of Life is a great sequel in the game series. It will definitely appeal to fans and newcomers alike!