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Land of the Vikings

Viking settlement builder focused on villagers and surviving winter

Laps Games · Published by Iceberg Interactive · Released Oct 9, 2023

Strategy

Reviews
Mostly Positive
72% of 2,051
Recent reviews
Mixed
56% of 16 in 30 days
Players
11
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
1 year ago
Mar 21, 2025
Minimum PC
GTX 960
6 GB RAM · 12 GB disk
Full requirements

Metacritic: 76/100 (critic reviews)

What is Land of the Vikings?

In this Viking settlement-building strategy game, you expand a village by assigning jobs to villagers, collecting resources, and storing food and firewood for winter. You place buildings freely, trade with neighbors by ship, and send villagers on raids while managing seasons and natural disasters.

For you if...

  • +you enjoy assigning villagers jobs based on their skills
  • +you like building settlements at a relaxed pace
  • +you want to plan food and firewood for winter

Not for you if...

  • −you want rapid progress without waiting through seasons
  • −you expect varied events and deep late-game systems
  • −you prefer direct combat over managing a settlement

What players say

72% of 2,051 reviews are positive · 56% of 16 in the last 30 days

Players praise the relaxed village building and the attention to villagers' skills and needs. Others find the pace slow and the late game repetitive, and report bugs and interface problems. Many negative reviewers say the game feels unfinished and worry that updates have stopped.

Players over time

▼ -26% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 22 players on Sep 23, 2026.

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Screenshots and trailer

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Land of the Vikings system requirements

Minimum: GTX 960, 6 GB RAM, 12 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 10
Processor
2.4 GHz Quad Core Processor
Graphics
GTX 960 Series or Equivalent
Memory
6 GB RAM
Storage
12 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Recommended

OS
Windows 10
Processor
3.2 GHz Quad Core Processor
Graphics
GTX 2060 Series or Equivalent
Memory
8 GB RAM
Storage
12 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Does Land of the Vikings have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Land of the Vikings run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Default controller config not fully functional
  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • Default configuration is not performant

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
42
Steam features
Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish.

Does Land of the Vikings use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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Recent updates

2 DLC available.

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