Expeditions: Viking
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 29.8h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 69 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Expeditions: Rome ($44.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Expeditions: Conquistador ($19.99, scores 56).
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 29.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 559 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
29.8 hours to finish it, 60 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 09:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Excellent turn-based tactics. I played Expeditions: Rome first and enjoyed it a lot. I have to say that I enjoyed Viking even more, as I found it very focused on what it does best, the set-piece battles. I'd say it fits the AA category very well in production value. I found the plot cohesive, the narrative effective and the characters simple but effective. I haven't experienced any crash, nor technical issues. The...
a fun turn based adventure. I haven't even left home yet and so much adventure awaits. I'm not far enough along to day more than that. but so far, a solid game with a solid combat system and what seems to be a lot more on the horizon
I do not like games that play RNG favourites against the player just to appear to make the game 'hard' because the devs couldnt devise beter tactics! even the RNG 'map events' are geared toward negative outcomes.. I have yet to encounter a positive one..some neutral.. but in combat, EVERY time I accidentally (I didnt know what it was, and NO tool tip!!) walked over 'black ice' I slipped! EVERY time the enemy walked...
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Cite this score
Expeditions: Viking scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/445190/expeditions-vikingReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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