Northern Tale
Viking time management game about lifting a witch's curse
Qumaron · Released Feb 9, 2016
AdventureCasualSimulationStrategy
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 90% of 62
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 2
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
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
As published by the developer.
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
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- 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
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish.