Expeditions: Viking Reviews

Very fun

Very buggy. not much of historical Accuracy here to be found. however my favorite quest so far was stabbing to death an adulterer.

Loved the game! =) of course i love when the story is way more deep but i just love the concept and the game had its payoffs ^-^

Great round based strategy and role playing game. Like it predecessor it combines a nice story, managing your group and strategic round based fights. The story is wonderful, and you can make many choices for different endings. I'm looking forward to the next installment. Playtime: ~ 40 hours Overall: 8 out of 10

This is a very good RPG with a solid turn-based combat system and a lot of historically credible exploration. Everything on the creative side is superlative. The setting, plot, quests, characters, dialogue, everything is written brilliantly, and everything is also coherent and believable both logically and atmospherically. The graphics of the locations are crafted in the same vein, they are gorgeous and quite perfect to the last minute detail, and help in creating impeccable immersion. Even the loading screens are brilliant and heighten the experience. There is a lot of content, and a lot of replay value due to a branching story and smaller mutually exclusive decisions. The gameplay side is not as perfect, but it is still good. There are many minor annoyances (like traps which are very dangerous, but basically invisible on screen even after they are "found", and to top it off disarming them is not possible until completing the entire trap skill tree). Despite this being an old game, I still came across some bugs (again mainly inconveniences, nothing game-breaking, but the most obvious ones should definitely have been found and fixed). The game also does not do a great job at giving the player all the needed information. Basically one either needs to first play one or several training takes to figure out what actually should be done (there is a time limit so just wandering around will not work, and experimenting with character builds is also challenging as skill points can't be redistributed), or resort to online tips (perhaps advisable due to the length of the game). All in all, the strong writing was enough to carry the game over the occasional rough waters. Most of the time I enjoyed the game a lot; if you like RPGs, turn-based combat, and/or vikings, I can definitely recommend this.