Viking: Battle for Asgard
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews▼
- 51% of 2,415
- Genre rank
- Top 97% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13.3h
- To 100%
- 19.7h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2018
- Sale every
- 59d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 2% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
39% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 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.
More about Viking: Battle for Asgard
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 272 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 298 reviews written there were positive, against 51 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 24 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Good story and decent graphics for its age. Would recommend anyone with any love for Vikings in anyway give this game a try
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A neat little Gem, the gameplay loop can be a lil repetitive but its all worth it for the large Scale battles at the end of chapters.
this shouldnt even be in steam.. no where near 'PC ready'.. you cant even see what (some of) the controls are in-game! let alone remap them! which is what you really NEED to do (R+F to drink a potion!?!?)! the graphics are very basic and so far, game play is pretty basic.. I am biased against console games, because of the 'mindset' of console devs (lack of player controlled saves, only thinking of 'controller...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A fierce struggle is taking place within Asgard, the realm of the Norse Gods.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8600 GS, Radeon 3400 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Viking: Battle for Asgard scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/211160/viking-battle-for-asgardReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.