Northgard: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Length
- 14.7h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2024. It has been discounted 88 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdoms Reborn ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dune: Spice Wars ($13.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 14.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 2,308 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.7 hours. Doing everything runs 88, 6.0 times as long.
It came out 8 years ago and 1.2K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
69% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1,164 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
This game is actually awesome. I read that it was a cross between Civ and RTS games and I went.... huh? what does that even mean? Then I bought the game for like $5. I have around 140 hours in it (a couple of days I was in offline mode) and have found that the solo player stuff alone is definitely worth it. I dont play online games so I have no idea about that department but if you are looking for a good RTS game I...
Overall I tried to like this game, but after several hours despite best efforts to like it, I really CANNOT recommend this game at all. It was dissapointly painful, mundane and annoying to play. *PROS - currently sold at a reduced bargain price - cool viking setting, music, and artstyle - great voice acting, decent story - unique mix of RTS and 4X hybrid style - unique cartoony graphics *CONS - no easy mode...
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.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/466560/northgard-definitive-editionThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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