Dead In Vinland Reviews

Great comfy game on custom difficulty, not so much on the official difficulties lol. Can't imagine being masochistic enough to play on anything harder than the easiest official setting, but I'm also not great at pushing through and recovering from set backs. I'm the kinda player that wants a x2 surplus of all resources and bench characters if they have above 1/4 depression or exhaustion and that's just straight up not how you're supposed to play, but the game lets you change the settings enough that you can at the expense of achievements. Not for anyone that's hated by RNG, that's for sure! But the actual mechanics and gameplay are fun, and the characters are great. It's the sorta point and click game you can play easily while curled up listening to something else but also has enough depth and management to keep you thinking. Good for bad brain and sick days, imo. (Also, if you have a cat that likes to play with you but doesn't like it when you move your arms too much.) There are some puzzles I don't have the patience for on repeat playthroughs, but there's nothing I couldn't figure out through trial and error on my first playthrough. The characters are really good, there's only one character I didn't enjoy overall, and that's mostly because I liked another character so much and they butt heads. The combat ui is a bit annoying, but the combat itself is good and rewards you for being clever about placement and comp. And, it's turn-based, which is a big bonus in my books. My one major complaint overall is that the relationship gains are brutal, it takes so long and compromising efficiency to raise people's relationships if they aren't naturally bffs, and several weeks of work can be wiped out by a single scripted event where you don't even get a say. Doing so is also rarely rewarded with special scenes, and don't effect the endings you will get at all. In most cases, except a few RNG questions, you really can't effect the character's trajectories. That story line will play out no matter what you do if they're both present, and a single bad RNG roll on the few imputes you do get will permanently cut off certain endings you were going for. I don't mind the RNG for survival gameplay, but the relationship sims side of things should be more controllable, because it just doesn't feel good and there's no way to recover. Overall, a lot of minor flaws and it would make certain types of players ragequit pretty quick, but if you like unfairly difficult games OR you are fine abusing the hell out of the difficulty customisation it's a fun, replayable game.