Northgard +9

The game is lovely to play, I only wish it had a Feedback button to submit bugs to the developer(s). Because first day launch, I have music problems of it getting loud then quiet, which is fine I expect bugs. It’d be nice if you could mess with the graphic settings so it doesn’t eat your battery( very quickly).
I’m still learning the controls and all, but I’m already having fun. I’m pretty sure- when you start off, the map looks small and you question “what did I really buy?”, well the map soon becomes surprisingly big when you get scouts exploring around. The graphics are nice, runs smooth, sparks childhood memories, worth the little money.
Not saying it’s a fan game based technically on “age of empires”. It’s different-especially how there’s so many ways to have victory instead of just slaughtering everyone in other clans. Worth the money really. Hope they let us in more on the road of development or at least be hinting stuff in updates they release, it’d be nice if they actually listen to ideas/suggestions we make for them- like saying something is vastly overpowered.
Will be playing it more. Keep the motivation to add more, can’t make any ideas? You have the entire Apple users,,, make a button in the game that lets us report bugs or ideas, something. Very fun game :)

I’ve read other reviews that say this game is like age of empires. That’s not true. This game is akin to the Settlers franchise by Ubisoft. You have different win conditions that you can pursue and you expand yourself by taking over neighboring territories that you discover.

That said, this game handles really well on iPad Pro (2020). It’s pretty. I haven’t run into any bugs. The gameplay loop is satisfying because each map is different and you don’t really know what resources and things you are going after until you start exploring. I like that the game revolves around making villagers into different roles and that the villagers auto create themselves. It puts everyone on the same level so long as you keep your faction’s happiness level and housing level up. It gives the user a sense of progression because you can focus on the expansion of your territory and the buildings for those territories instead of having to constantly go back to the main building and worry about maintenance or unit creation there.

My only wish for this game is for differing levels of ai. The current ai just wrecks me lol. If you can make an easy ai or a “weeny hut jr” ai that would be great.

The game definitely deserves maximum stars. It is gorgeous well done. My only complaint is it clearly was a port of some sort from windows. When you click certain icons it shows you a little mouse that you have to hit the right button on which I have no idea how to do on an iPad. It would’ve been nice if they made the game a little more iPad friendly also. The buttons on the left are really out-of-the-way on my large iPad when I need to constantly switch back-and-forth. A little bit of redesign in the I would’ve been huge for me my only complaint is it clearly was a port of some sort from windows. When you click certain icons it shows you a little mouse that you have to hit the right button on which I have no idea how to do on an iPad. It would’ve been nice if they made the game a little more iPad friendly also. The buttons on the left are really out-of-the-way on my large iPad when I need to constantly switch back-and-forth. A little bit of redesign in the UI would’ve been huge for me but aside from that it is just too good Not to give it five stars.