Vikings: Wolves of Midgard

Vikings – Wolves of Midgard is at it’s best when it engages you in mindless bloody carnage.That’s not to say the game is easy or simple. When I hit “start” on this third-person action rpg from developer Games Farm, I was expecting a Diablo-adjace experience full of hacking and slashing, maybe a spattering of samey classes and perhaps a serviceable upgradeable skill tree. It’s been a long time sinc...

Shortcomings aside, hack and slash fiends who are looking for their next fix should definitely check out Vikings: Wolves of Midgard, a genre effort which more than earns its passage into Valhalla.

Vikings: Wolves of Midgard is a recommendable dungeon crawler, with fun and interesting enemies, a wide but not overwhelming array of player abilities, and an engaging combat system that demands that players remain on their toes and think carefully about what abilities to use and when. However, a few technical issues, and a repetitive structure prevent the game from being something for players to ...

Before someone points it out, yes, mundane enemies and boxes / destructible items drop stuff too, sometimes even weapons or armor but not in the quantity we’ve come to expect from today’s ARPGs. What we’re left with in Vikings is the endless grind for materials to build the town to get better loot. Sounds good but the implementation falls flat.

A game that has plenty of polish but is average underneath.

As unmemorable as it was disappointing, Vikings—Wolves of Midgard misses the mark. With a flat story, uninteresting combat made worse by the game’s annoying exposure system, and a boring environment to boot, this title doesn’t compare to its many well-liked peers within the ARPG genre.

Turning on Vikings: Wolves of Midgard for the first time, I’ll be transparent in saying I was expecting basically a re-badged Diablo. While in some ways this is a fair comparison, what developer Games Farm has tried to focus on in particular is a crisp combat experience that draws heavily on Nordic mythological themes. To this end, I was not disappointed. The game itself is not without its issues ...