It's basically a puzzler with RTS/Citybuilding elements. And an AI so incredibly stupid, you can place a quarry directly next to stone resources and the worker will fail to find it.
Interface is clunky. For some reason they chose to present everything in such a way that everything is always occluded by other stuff. Camera control is obnoxious. Goals are consistently unclear. Almost nothing is explained, very little is intuitive. I spent much of my first hours on my phone looking shit up instead of playing. And I kept coming across forums telling me the solution to my problem was a building that the game doesn't let you have in the beginning, making the early game fundamentally broken as you struggle to figure out what magic thing they expect you to do to fix something, even though you can't do it yet.
The lack of documentation on production amounts and the needs of your vikings almost made me give up and quit too soon. A stubborn part of me held on a while longer, trying more strategy, and I got through it. I still haven't worked out just how much food to produce, but stoped starving all the time. I actually am enjoying this though.
A few technologies unlock after the first couple islands which make it smoother. I don't know why you don't get the kitchen at the start of the game, too high tech, I guess.
It seems well worth the $1.49 sale price I payed for it after two play sessions.
I find this game pretty laughable as a city builder because it seems to think that every building has the same criterias, so a fishing hut in the middle of a land area is more effective than one near the coast?
I assume this anyways, because the game told me that you should put buildings in a green area to make it the best, and all buildings share the same placement areas, meaning that yes, your wood cutter and your fishing hut has to fight over the same spots.
I am not sure who this game was meant to attract, but it's certainly not a good game.
In Valhalla Hills, you control some vikings and land on different islands where you will need to complete certain objectives in order to go through the island portal to the next area. You harvest resources, build lumber mills, houses, barracks and all that good stuff. However the game feels very shallow, and doesn't seem like there is much depth to the gameplay and yet there appears to be virtually no tutorial to explain how to do certain tasks, for example you build houses for your Vikings to sleep in and yet they never go in them and sleep outside. Personally I found the game boring which I am surprised about as this game is made by the same people who made the Settler's games which were for the most part...great. I would only buy this if it was on a heavy discount.