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Bad North: Jotunn Edition

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Bad North: Jotunn Edition
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Bad North: Jotunn Edition Demo is available here 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. B...
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46 %
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( 71 Reviews )

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2018, Plausible Concept, ...
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Windows 7 / 8 / 10, AMD Athlon X4 5350, Intel Core i3-2100T or equivalent, 4 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 480...
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Bad North: Jotunn Edition - Deluxe Content
Time to beat
6 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
21.5 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
Description


Bad North: Jotunn Edition Demo is available here

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.

© Copyright 2018 Plausible Concept. Developed by Plausible Concept. Published by Raw Fury AB. All Rights Reserved.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
6 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
21.5 h Completionist
8.5 h All Styles
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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
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Size:
271 MB

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Posted on: April 8, 2025

Altair124365

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Games: 78 Reviews: 1

Enjoyable game

Simple, yet entertaining. Bad North is a seemingly basic, yet surprisingly complex, game of strategy and simple resource management. You start with two commanders that you can customize the starting item, trait (Items and traits unlock for selection at start by completing certain objectives in-game) and portrait of. Your goal is to then fend off enemies invading a series of islands, trying to save as many people/posessions as possible from the incoming raids in the process. Your reward for succeeding is gold, which you use to upgrade your units. Assigning/progressing in one of three classes, strengthening item effects/usages and levelling a unique abiity that each class has access to. You repeat this process, gaining access to an ever-increasing variety and number of enemies as the raids progress along the chain of islands, until the final battle which is do or die for your squad. The game will likely surprise you with the enemy variety and their interactions with the different unit classes you command, so it's easy to find yourself playing multiple runs to gain permanent unlocks, to fine-tune your general strategy, or even as a game you simply come back to over time for an enjoyable time.


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Posted on: June 26, 2025

bezelight

Games: 7 Reviews: 2

Why you should play it

Simple conception and basic idea, which really swallows you in the game and ideally increase level of challenge thoughout the game. Minimalistic, but still interesting design, cool and authentic ambient, tense atmosphere of some real danger which will make you feel a pressure of limited time and unstoppable threat (but only at hard level of game which I recommend to play and mostly in the second part of the gameplay). Overall — 10/10


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Posted on: December 30, 2018

1stKarkan

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Games: 44 Reviews: 1

Awesome game

It's an amazing and simple game. Totally worth the price


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Posted on: September 28, 2019

Kanzer.157

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Games: 44 Reviews: 10

Fun

Its Fun


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Posted on: January 4, 2020

sjgm_

Games: 81 Reviews: 6

Well...

It has a nice artstyle and a simple gamplay, but lacks depth and is stupidly short. There are only 2 checkpoints which make it kinda Dark Souls.


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