Dead in Vinland is a solid game with great visuals, characters, story and runs smoothly without bugs. However, the sheer amount of dice rolls and other stupid design choices is simply cringe-worthy and rage inducing. You cannot plan ahead of time and decide which character will fill which role as their stats are randomized and the list of traits you can choose for them at every level up is random as well, so you better hope the people you wanted to do the fighting do not end up filled with gathering traits. Such system essentially forces you to save-scum, because it is way faster to do it (and much less frustrating) than having to restart over and over again because you could not turn one person into a decent a fighter. Combat is a tedious, unavoidable task that requires no strategy whatsoever. Once you figure a good combo, just keep spamming it at every encounter, prioritizing targets as necessary. You'll only have to do some thinking when you're boss fighting, and that's when you'll be pissed for not having been given better trait choices for your fighters. Or you can just save-scum until you get a huge critical hit. That works as well. A lot of foreknowledge is necessary for this game. Way too much. You can literally lose ALL the unique items you gave to a character simply because he/she decided to do "X" and if you don't ban him/her (and banning means death) from your camp, he/she will keep doing "X" and screw everything up no matter what you do. For these reasons, I cannot recommend this game, at least not at full price. Grab it when it is at least 50% off.
