Viking: Battle for Asgard
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 51% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8600 GS, Radeon 3400 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
A fierce struggle is taking place within Asgard, the realm of the Norse Gods.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2018. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 51 in the 14 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Brutal Legend ($14.99, scores 76) and Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ ($49.99, scores 59) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 265 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 298 reviews written there were positive, against 51 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
39% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Good hack and slash Viking game... Not Quite Rune but the port is to PC is well done IMHO
Love this game it was my childhood but would rather have spartan total warrior back to play battles where bigger if not mot exciting
Run the game - "settings file not found. Please run configuration tool first." Run config file - "The Steam client is not running. Please run the Steam client and try again." REALLY??!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Viking: Battle for Asgard scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211160/viking-battle-for-asgardThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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