Northern Tale
Viking time management game about lifting a witch's curse
Qumaron · Released Feb 9, 2016
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 90% of 62
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- Unknown
- no patch notes on Steam
What is Northern Tale?
Northern Tale is a single-player time management game set in a cursed Viking kingdom. Across three season-themed episodes, you help King Ragnar and his companions confront beasts and undead and restore color to the land as he searches for his kidnapped daughters.
For you if...
- +you enjoy time management games with a fantasy setting
- +you like adventures divided into season-themed episodes
Not for you if...
- −you prefer games without timed objectives
- −you want open-ended play rather than structured episodes
What players say
90% of 62 reviews are positive
Players say the story is thin and mainly serves to set up the gameplay.
Screenshots and trailer
Northern Tale system requirements
Minimum: with 32MB RAM, 0.2 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Northern Tale?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
- Processor
- Pentium III 800MHz
- Graphics
- Graphics card with 32MB Video RAM
- Storage
- 180 MB available space
- Notes
- Game can function not properly on Windows 10
Does Northern Tale have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Northern Tale run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- 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
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish.
Does Northern Tale 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
