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A fierce struggle is taking place within Asgard, the realm of the Norse Gods.

Release DateOct 17, 2012
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)56.7% (mixed) Bottom 15% / 48.8%  Bottom 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)55.8% Bottom 25% / 49%  Bottom 15%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)868  Top 15% / 2.2K  Top 10%
Curators42 reviews  Top 15%
Median Play Time5.3 hours  Top 30%
Play Time per Dollar21 minutes
Followers4.2K  Top 15%
Owners± 1.2M  Top 3%
Copies Sold± 66K  Top 15%
Gross Revenue ($)± 392.2K  Top 15%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Viking: Battle for Asgard steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Viking: Battle for Asgard's Steam rating and reviews from October 2012 to December 2023. Steam's rating varies between 93.7% (December 2012) and 44.9% (July 2017).

Viking: Battle for Asgard is an AAA level success, with 2.2K reviews Top 10%. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Viking: Battle for Asgard and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Viking: Battle for Asgard's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (49%), followed by Russian (13%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 28 languages represented. The game is available in 7 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying Viking: Battle for Asgard percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Viking: Battle for Asgard depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is not bad at all, with 18 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 13 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. A low negative review time (median : 65 minutes) can mean that the game crashes on some systems or that the type of gameplay was not completely clear to the players (Is the game unmistakably explained on the Steam Store ?). It is also possible that players were otherwise displeased by Viking: Battle for Asgard and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • great hack-n-slash combat
  • impressive large scale battles
  • lite RPG elements
  • cool gore effects
  • QTE finishers are enjoyable
  • nice large scale battles
  • good pacing of new areas and moves
  • fulfilling feeling of changing environment
  • chilling fight song
  • control a massive army of vikings
  • horrible port
  • locked at 30FPS
  • frame rate drops
  • lack of enemy variety
  • boring boss battles
  • tedious running between camps
  • confusing controls
  • poor instruction
  • plot holes
  • unsatisfactory ending

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's 56.7% rating  Bottom 15% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Viking: Battle for Asgard's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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