Expeditions: Viking (2017)
Expeditions: Viking is a 2017 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Logic Artists and THQ Nordic.
You inherit a struggling clan of farmers and fighters, a longship, and a hard choice about how to make your name. Expeditions: Viking is a historically grounded turn-based RPG set in the Norse world, sending your raiders west toward the wealth of Britain. Trade shrewdly or burn your way to Valhalla; the game tracks how you treat friends, thralls and rivals, and the consequences follow you home. Combat is deliberate and lethal, camp management matters, and the setting stays closer to saga and mud than horned-helmet myth. A lean, choice-driven road to fame, or an early grave.
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What is Expeditions: Viking about?
You inherit a struggling clan of farmers and fighters, a longship, and a hard choice about how to make your name. Expeditions: Viking is a historically grounded turn-based RPG set in the Norse world, sending your raiders west toward the wealth of Britain. Trade shrewdly or burn your way to Valhalla; the game tracks how you treat friends, thralls and rivals, and the consequences follow you home. Combat is deliberate and lethal, camp management matters, and the setting stays closer to saga and mud than horned-helmet myth. A lean, choice-driven road to fame, or an early grave.
When was Expeditions: Viking released?
Expeditions: Viking was released on 27 April 2017.
Who made Expeditions: Viking?
Expeditions: Viking was made by Logic Artists and THQ Nordic.
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A few thoughts on Expeditions: Viking
The companions are on television. Vikings dramatizes the raids, feuds and hunger for glory this game runs on, and The Last Kingdom tells the other side, Saxon England buckling under Danish longships. For the sound of it, Amon Amarth turn Norse myth into pure momentum, while Robert Eggers' The Northman completes the set with brutal, fog-soaked authenticity.
Norse sagas of raiders chasing fame or revenge
Expeditions: Viking sends a struggling clan west to raid Britain, weighing plunder against the blood it costs. Vikings and The Last Kingdom dramatize that same Norse expansion across the English coast, The Northman turns a single revenge saga into myth, Amon Amarth's Twilight of the Thunder God sets the same raids to Viking metal, and God of War drags Norse myth into a quieter, more grieving story.
Historical action RPGs about picking a side and living with it
Expeditions: Viking has you decide whether to trade fairly with the English or burn their halls for glory, and the game remembers which. Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood send Ezio through Renaissance Italy's fractured city-states, Black Flag turns Edward Kenway from privateer to reluctant conspirator, and Assassin's Creed III drops its hero into a colonial war with no clean side. Every one of them makes conquest personal.
Sagas and survivor stories where death is always close
Expeditions: Viking measures fame in blood price: raid too hard and thralls or trade partners turn to enemies. The Song of Achilles carries that same fatalism into the Trojan War, Gorin no sho is a real swordmaster's cold philosophy of combat, Into Thin Air recounts real choices on Everest that cost lives either way, and Debt traces how raiding, trade and obligation have always been tangled together.