Cultures - Northland
Fair · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.79. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.1h 32.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 697 positive
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It is 84% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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About the game
The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3D graphics card, 379 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 111 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 61 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Northgard: Definitive Edition ($34.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold 3 Gold ($29.99, scores 2).
More about Cultures - Northland
Of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.1 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 2.2 times as long.
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 06:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
What could have been a fun Viking strategy game turns into a miserable chore thanks to utterly broken pathfinding. Your villagers constantly drop what they are doing, get stuck on random terrain, and starve to death right next to a full warehouse. The economy system makes zero sense half the time, leaving you staring at the screen wondering why nobody is working. Do yourself a favor and skip this frustrating mess.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TL;DR: fun for nostalgia if you played this as a kid, but does not hold up otherwise The good It's a casual light-hearted city builder game. Campaign missions typically don't have any time pressure and most hostile factions don't attack you unless you make contact with them first so you can take however long you want building out your settlement and raising an army. Exploration is heavily rewarded, but not...
Brilliant, underrated game. This was my first game ever played. I perfectly remember how amazing the simulation and the city building was. Not even Settlers had the intricacies that Cultures has. This is presumably the 2'nd game in the Cultures series although not shown explicitly anywhere. I did not find the original around, unless taking the GOG version. This is the ultimate society simulation and city building...
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Cite this score
Cultures - Northland scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351860/cultures-northlandReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.