Valhalla Hills

An engaging and enjoyable game, Valhalla Hills offers hours of fun and gameplay for fans of building and management genre, especially those with fond memories of The Settlers series.

While Valhalla Hills doesn't have the presentation and energy of some of the more popular RTS games, it does manage to offer up an addictive experience that is a lot of fun. Listening to the intriguing sound effects of the Vikings mustering up their strength to work remains delightful and humorous throughout the entire game.

If you like management games, Valhalla Hills is a great choice that is fun and engaging. It is not the most complex one, but definitely worth your time.

A refreshing old-school building strategy game for patient players, which only displays its charm and potential after a few hours of playing. It's love at second sight.

Valhalla Hills is a well built title easily capable of fulfilling a short term RTS fix.

The game fails to deliver too much in the way of story, and the graphics are a little limited, but the core building and optimization mechanics are captivating and give gamers plenty of interesting ways to tweak the layout of buildings and the paths that characters use.

A really enjoyable, relaxing game reminiscent of old Settlers. [02/2016, p.57]

Valhalla Hills is a pretty good god game, accessible for novices of the genre and fun for veterans too. Some problems with the AI and a boring initial phase keep it from being truly great, though.

Valhalla Hills is all in all, a strong little RTS, with enough going on under the surface to satisfy most fans of the genre.

Although the main story in Valhalla Hills is quite lacking, managing a Viking settlement at the foot of a mountain is an interesting challenge.

It's not quite up there with Funatics' other RTS titles, due to a rather weak aesthetic and lack of player agency, but Valhalla Hills still has a lot of randomly-generated fun in store for fans of the genre.

What’s there is fun, and DLC is on the horizon, but the package is on the light side.

It shows off some interesting features which could have made Valhalla Hills truly unique, but when it comes to variety, depth and diversity, it fails to impress.

A classical build up strategy game in tradition of The Settlers- and Cultures-Series from Funatics. You’ll have to conquer procedural-made islands, leading you Vikings to a portal, that leads to Valhalla. The tiny look of the toon-like characters and their animations are charming, as well as watching your folk building houses, farms and stuff. Unfortunately the transport of goods is unnecessary complicated and the AI is just acting automatically. There is no way to give precise orders, same as for the military-part of the game.

Alas, Valhalla Hills is too repetitive and simple, and its randomly generated maps are not a replacement for a normal single-player campaign.

How does Valhalla Hills look in comparison with famous Settlers franchise? The developers have failed in some areas, and succeeded in others. Fortunately, completing new maps and goals is very pleasant - every fan of colorful strategy games based on economy should consider this game. If not now maybe after some discounts?

Compared to the early access, this final release is sadly disappointing. What we got is a still interesting god game, but the price can't make up for what it's in the box, and much fixing by the devs is still needed.

Valhalla Hills is well designed and quite charming. If you are into strategy and building type games you will get addicted to Valhalla Hills easily.

While I adored its striking visuals, and its core resource and city management was engrossing, the repetitive nature of the start and end game deprives Valhalla Hills of much variety, leaving it as a straight-forward, slightly casual, management sim to pass the time for a few days, but never does enough to be memorable.

While aesthetically charming and quite entertaining to play, there’s not enough content to declare Valhalla Hills a success. This, paired with a questionable price point, makes it an experience to embrace just if you’re a big Settlers fan. Otherwise wait for the unavoidable price drop.

Valhalla Hills is good, but too shallow successor to Settlers. Caring for the Viking nation will entertain you for a moment (at least visually), but otherwise the game lacks content to utilize all the game mechanics properly.

Valhalla Hills is charming, but it lacks compelling problem-solving scenarios, is too repetitive, and has players relying too much trial and error to progress.

It’s a charming, lighthearted game of resource gathering and production. Unfortunately, it’s only really fun when things work smoothly and easily. Figuring out mistakes and solving problems - which should be the core of a good strategy game - are built around solving pathfinding issues, and Valhalla Hills doesn’t do much to make those problems more palatable.

A game for nostalgic Settlers fans. Very, very nostalgic Settlers fans. [Issue#204, p.80]