Tribes of Midgard

I went into Tribes of Midgard because I like Viking culture, and the idea of combining a Viking setting with a top-down survival game genuinely interested me. After finishing it, however, I ended up with the feeling that this is a game that took several ideas from Valheim, changed the perspective and combat, and then never managed to build an identity strong enough to stand on its own. That starts with the visual design. I have no problem with a stylised or cartoon-like Viking game, and Valheim proves that you don't need realistic graphics to create a strong identity. My problem is that Tribes of Midgard's character design feels completely disconnected from the Viking setting it is trying to represent. The character models and some of the cutscenes follow a very modern, exaggerated aesthetic that does not fit the cultural setting for me, and the character customisation is far too limited to give the player any real control over that. If the developers wanted to create a fantasy interpretation of Vikings, that is their choice, but I don't think the result respects the identity of the setting nearly as well as it should. Valheim, despite having a completely different art style, manages to create a much more coherent Viking world. That lack of identity becomes more obvious once you start playing, because the game constantly reminds me of Valheim. I am not talking about two survival games simply sharing the same genre. Tribes of Midgard has several concrete ideas that immediately feel familiar: travelling between different islands and regions, bosses associated with specific areas, NPCs spread around the world with different functions, sailing between locations and progressing through those regions to reach stronger content. The difference is that Tribes of Midgard turns those ideas into a faster, top-down action game with a Diablo-like combat system. That could have been a great combination, but instead it often feels like a cheaper version of a formula that Valheim already executes much better. The biggest example is the sailing. For a game built around Vikings, travelling by sea should be one of the most enjoyable parts of the experience, but here it becomes one of the most frustrating. The camera is locked, the field of view is too limited and the player cannot properly see what is in front of the boat. The game even turns camera zoom into a skill instead of simply giving the player proper camera control. As the boats become larger, the problem becomes worse because the camera does not adapt to the size of the ship, and even the larger legendary ship becomes unnecessarily difficult to navigate. The sea is filled with obstacles placed so close together that I spent more time avoiding rocks than actually enjoying the journey, while the minimap does a poor job of communicating distances accurately enough to compensate for the restricted camera. Valheim has its own problems with sailing, but at least travelling through its world actually feels like sailing. Here, it feels like steering a vehicle through an obstacle course while looking through a keyhole. The same problem exists on land. The map is enormous, but the amount of content does not justify its size. Procedurally generating a different map every time sounds interesting, but if the world is much larger than the activities available inside it, procedural generation only creates more space to travel through. I eventually unlocked a movement skill simply to make travelling less tedious, which says a lot about how the game's scale works against itself. The world is large because the game can make it large, not because it has enough meaningful content to fill it. Some individual ideas are genuinely good. Combat is enjoyable, resource gathering is fast and doesn't waste my time, and the shared storage system connected to crafting stations is one of the best quality-of-life decisions in the game. I never had to worry about carrying every resource around with me or dealing with an unnecessary weight system. Unfortunately, those good decisions are surrounded by much weaker systems. Building is extremely shallow, structures are locked to a rigid grid and destroying pieces one by one becomes tedious very quickly. It feels like a survival game that needed a building system rather than a game that actually knew what it wanted that system to accomplish. The progression and combat also fail to provide enough depth for the size of the world. Depending on the build, especially with ranged weapons such as the bow, large parts of the game become extremely easy, and the bosses never managed to give me the feeling that I was reaching increasingly meaningful encounters. The final boss was particularly disappointing, feeling weaker and more predictable than some bosses encountered much earlier. It had the health of a final boss, but not the mechanics or encounter design to make it feel like one. The story is not strong enough to compensate for these problems either. It is extremely linear and never gives the world enough depth to make me care about what is happening beyond progressing towards the next objective. There are ideas here that could have supported a much better Viking adventure, but they are never developed into a narrative with much weight or personality. The technical problems are another reason I cannot recommend it as a co-op game. During our sessions we repeatedly encountered desync issues where chests, objects and parts of structures could disappear from the shared world. Restarting the game could fix it, but having to restart a co-op session because the world has stopped synchronising properly is not something I should have to accept as a normal part of playing the game. For a game whose main appeal is playing together, this is a serious problem. What makes all of this even more frustrating is the direction the game took after release. The major mechanical development eventually slowed down considerably, while cosmetics, skins, Platinum Coins and seasonal content became increasingly visible. I don't have a problem with cosmetic purchases existing by themselves, but when the core game still has problems with navigation, building, balance and multiplayer stability, it is difficult not to question those priorities. The community was asking for mechanical improvements while the game increasingly had reasons for players to spend money on cosmetics instead. After finishing the game, I simply have no reason to return. I don't want to generate another world, repeat the same progression, explore another map or chase additional challenges. The combat and co-op can be fun, and there are genuinely good ideas here, but they are buried underneath a game that constantly feels like it is trying to be something bigger than the systems can support. That is ultimately why the comparison with Valheim matters so much to me. Valheim is not perfect, and its graphics are certainly not for everyone, but it understands what it wants to be. Its exploration, sailing, progression, world design and atmosphere all work towards creating a coherent Viking survival experience. Tribes of Midgard takes several of those ideas, changes the gameplay structure and adds its own systems, but after twenty hours I was left asking the same question: why would I play this when Valheim does it better? I paid less than one euro for Tribes of Midgard, and honestly, I am glad I did not pay the full price. I got enough out of it to understand what the game was trying to do, but I have no interest in returning to it. There are better survival games, better Viking games and better examples of how to combine exploration, combat and cooperative progression. For me, Tribes of Midgard is a collection of interesting ideas that never becomes a coherent game, and that is why I cannot recommend it. [b]Score: 3/10[/b] (1) Trash(2) Horrible(3) Very Bad(4) Bad(5) Average (6) Fine(7) Good(8) Very Good(9) Great(10) Masterpiece

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Mobile game. Basic attack. Ridiculous dodgeroll. Just grind to hit harder, no strategy. Cant climb on rocks, dive in water, die, cant pick equipment back. Map's layout full of hills everywhere, you cant climb on them, you have to build retarded structure to walk on, that are a mess to connect. You have to walk around hills. Are you serious designing such bad layout. Refund.

this game has so much bad game designs i can make a full list of it for you. 1. Weather system : You would think " oh nice this game has a weather system it is cold so ill go and build the lava armor" WRONG fire armor does not counter react ice apparently clearly devs did not pass 3rd grade science. thats the first cardinal sin i have noticed but ok no big deal ill make the ice armor then. devs say "nope ♥♥♥♥ you the mats for that armor is locked behind the snow biome" , the area in which you cant survive without said ice armor. not only do they have make everything backwards they have poor level design 2. EXTREME lack of content: 3 mini bosses and 4 big bosses yup thats all you get after you farm for 3-4 hours in story mode and kill the first 2 mini bosses you can melt the rest of the bosses in the game. 3. The manipulation to keep you playing their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game: if youre an achievement hunter youd likely try to get max season level playing saga mode , its psuedo endless so youd think you can push to survive as many days as you can and do 3-4 saga quests for as much XP possible right ? WRONG AGAIN. just like a minimum wage job not only are you NOT rewarded for extra work you are limit CAPPED ... to 90k xp which you can achieve by just doing 2 saga quest and survive to day 15 , dont even bother going beyond that cuz its useless. we survived up to day 28 and did 4 saga quests with no extra xp to show for it waste of extra 4 hours. 4. buggy AF: -the game likes to boot you back to the main menu in the worse times possible -UI freezing in rune menu -getting stuck in valhalla space when you respawn -constantly getting stuck in between mobs , any nooks and cranny in the map , underneath bosses feet and you get nuked by a jihadist to add salt to wounds 5.Poor boss design : -Jotunn specifically the fire one in saga mode we got him to level 10 and he seems to have an aura damage that no longer shows visually that just kills you out of nowhere. it also does not help the fact that you make boss visual attacks way too similar to player attacks if it was lava pools from the boss that damage us. 6. Controls: why the ♥♥♥♥ is summon mount HOLD z while teleport is tap T once?? the amount of times i accidentally teleported without wanting to is insane. id like to understand the thought process in that decision. 7. Weapon skills: Can i get an explanation of what any of them do? like cool the icons somewhat show what they do but a full description when i hover over it would be great. this isnt a nursery game for 3 yr olds we know how to read. #3 is the main reason why i cant keep playing or even support this game despite its many flaws , game is fun but forcing me to play it longer than i should in deceptive ways like XP limit caps is cardinal sin especially for an indie dev.

Honestly, had all the things needed to be a good game, it just isnt. After a few hours you see what trash game this actually is. Sad but true. Made by a phone game developer, explains most of it.

玩了很久，玩法内容不更新也就算了，服务器优化烂的一坨，动不动就进不去了，玩了很久的存档，说进不去就进不去，想玩一会，能不能登陆上全看运气

This game is way better than I thought it would be. I got it on sale, and I was expecting so little for such a low price. Thankfully, it surprised me! It’s actually a fun and well-made game. The graphics are smooth, the enemies are challenging (for a while until you level up), and the controls are tight. Some reviewers complain that the controls and gameplay are too simple, but I guess I was just in the mood for something simple and fun. I played it in co-op, and we had fun exploring, sailing around, fighting bosses, and base building. Is it the most exciting game? No. But it’s fun for what it is, and I can easily recommend it.