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Northgard, the strategy game from Shiro Games where you control a clan of vikings is coming to Linux tomorrow!

I've been excited about it for quite some time, especially as the developer confirmed it was coming way back in early 2017. Now that the game has been officially released, the developer has announced that tomorrow March 8th, the Linux (and Mac) versions will be released!

Check out the official release trailer:

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Features:

  • Build your settlement on the newly discovered continent of Northgard
  • Assign your vikings to various jobs (Farmer, Warrior, Sailor, Loremaster...)
  • Manage your resources carefully and survive harsh winters and vicious foes
  • Expand and discover new territory with unique strategic opportunities
  • Achieve different victory conditions (Conquest, Fame, Lore, Trading...)
  • Play against your friends or against an AI with different difficulty levels and personalities
  • Enjoy dedicated servers and grind the ranks to reach the final Norse God rank!

I already own a copy as their press team sent me a key last year so that I would be ready for the eventual release. Thanks to that, I will be able to have some thoughts up on it once I've been able to play it. It already downloads right now, but the download seems a bit mixed up and doesn't work (might be due to the key I have), hopefully this won't cause me any issues with the actual release.

I'm extremely pleased that Shiro Games are firmly keeping to their word!

Thanks for the tip, TapocoL!

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Nibelheim Mar 8, 2018
If not working with this workaround :
https://i.imgur.com/x4h4Bog.jpg

You need wayland and wayland-egl packages. Try again ;).


Last edited by Nibelheim on 8 March 2018 at 6:57 pm UTC
pete Mar 8, 2018
A direct link to Steam in the text, would have bee nice :) or did I miss it?
STiAT Mar 8, 2018
Yeah, quite not there

->here you go<-

Sad it does not work in steam directly yet, maybe the developer can do something about it. Meanwhile I play campaign and after that I'll try to fix it up with lsi if the developer didn't act.
Whitewolfe80 Mar 8, 2018
Yeah is true about the price i bought ballistic overkill when it was in early access for 2.99 when it came out of early access it went up to 8.99 still a cheap game but maybe not worth the incease imo.
STiAT Mar 8, 2018
Till now I find the game (only campaign, didn't get it running multiplayer/steam yet) very entertaining. I'd say depending on your budget, it's certainly worth a buy.

I remember when we celebrated every game release on Linux. We've got a a bit critical about it.

For early access: The early access discount in my eyes is for people to test the game early on and give feedback about gameplay, balancing, dynamics, besides being beta-testers on a variety of hardware, saving or potentially saving quite some QA. They're risk investors, so they get a discount and can help shape the product. For me, that's a fair deal. I don't want it, so I pay a few bucks more. That's fine too I think.


Last edited by STiAT on 8 March 2018 at 11:00 pm UTC
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