Bad North: Jotunn Edition 12+
Vikings are coming
Raw Fury
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- £3.99
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Description
Bad North DOES NOT support: iPhone 5S, 6, 6 Plus, iPad Air/Mini 2, 3/iPod Touch 6th gen and lower
Your home is under attack. The king is dead at the hands of Viking invaders. Hope is a distant glimmer in the fog, fading fast with every passing moment. As you rise to take your father’s place as ruler, it will fall to you to stage your defenses. But make no mistake – this is no fight for victory, but a desperate grasp for survival.
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island. Everything is at stake: fail, and watch the blood of your subjects stain the ground red.
It’s charmingly brutal, with beautiful procedurally-generated islands and adorable soldiers juxtaposed against the blood-stained realities of war. You control the broad strokes of the battle, giving high level commands to your soldiers who try their best to carry them out in the heat of the moment. It’s accessibly deep, with simple player inputs masking a dynamic combat simulation that make it inviting to new players while challenging veterans.
Keep fighting, warriors. Not for power or riches or glory, but for hope of peace to come once again in the harsh lands of the Bad North.
Key Features
REAL-TIME TACTICS ROGUELITE: Position and relocate your troops to fend off the Vikings, who each have their own counters to the threats you pose. Pick your battles and plan your evacuations carefully! Lose a commander and they’re gone forever; lose everything, and it’s game over!
INTELLIGENT UNIT CONTROLS: You command the broad strokes of your defenses and monitor positioning — your soldiers do the rest, navigating and engaging intuitively in response to the situation at hand.
PROCEDURALLY-GENERATED ISLANDS: Each island is both stylistically charming and unique in its layout. Plan your strategies around every nook and cranny, for you only get one chance to save them from the enemy invasion.
UNLOCKABLE UPGRADES: A stronger, smarter defense leads to greater rewards. Use these to develop your subjects from a ragtag militia into seasoned warriors.
What’s New
Version 2.00.18
Optimization to memory usage
Ratings and Reviews
Fun but eventually repetitive
The game is initially very enjoyable. You control four squads of fighters and defend your island against incoming invaders. The problem is that you very quickly discover everything the game has to offer because there simply isn’t very much to it.
There are only three different types of fighters you can use (archers, pikemen and swordsmen) who each only have a single ability. You then defend against the same types of enemies, over and over again, on slightly changing maps. Although you can use different strategies in theory, this isn’t particularly necessary.
Additionally, the game is bugged and requires you to continually close all other apps for it to load. Not a huge deal but another sign that this game is slightly rushed and has ultimately been forgotten about by its developers.
I mean, it might be good?
Warning to everyone- check in the description of the game for whether your device is supported... the App Store seem to have made a mistake in their descriptions.......
So I open the game, and right as it says ‘start’, an error message says the game is non-compatible with my device, and kicks me into my home screen before I can say ‘vikings’. It has the exact same message and response on my other device. Just to be safe, I checked the compatibility on the app download screen in App Store, and it says it should work on both devices... both of which are fully updated, to beyond the iOS minimum.
Developer Response ,
Hi,
I'm sorry to hear you've encountered this issue!
Could you please reach out to us on our Help Desk and specify this issue a bit more, it would help us a lot.
https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1
Best regards,
Raw Fury
Looks and plays great.
Really like this game. I was recommended it based on the visual design which I loved. The game play is really good too. It has a reasonable learning curve with levels later taking sometimes many attempts and different tactics to complete. It’s great to just pick up and play whenever, whether for 15 minutes or an hour or so.
I played it on iPad which seems like the best way to play it. While you can play on iPhone I’d recommend iPad as I would imagine the iPhone should be a little too small for this. So if you have an iPad, stick to that.
Recommended.
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Information
- Provider
- Raw Fury AB
- Size
- 356.1 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- ©2019 Raw Fury
- Price
- £3.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.