![]() “But the hype for Vikings started years earlier when Skyrimand the first Thor movies appeared,” said Konrad Sumało of Paranoid Interactive. The point is that in the last few years, Vikings have truly invaded video games.īut why is this happening, exactly? The fine folks at Paranoid Interactive, the devs behind city-builder Frozenheim, explained that the very idea for Frozenheim came about around three years ago. I wouldn’t be shocked if this number would be much higher if we went down the rabbit hole of mobile releases or the full extent of Steam releases within the same timeframe. And that’s just counting bigger, well-known games. If you toss in the rerelease of Blizzard’s The Lost Vikings earlier this year that adds up to 16 games since 2018. Toss in 2018 and that number gets even bigger, with six Viking titles released that year alone. Since the start of 2019, there have been at least nine different (but major) Viking-themed games released. Of course, that number was completely wrong, but the actual number of Viking games released in the past three years is higher than you might expect. ![]() For whatever reason, that game seemed like the 200th Viking game I had heard about recently. A very classic depiction of these Norse warriors, and one that fits nicely within video games’ obsession with the survival genre. The Vikings in this game were depicted as savvy survivors and capable warriors who are able to work together to build a new civilisation. I first noticed this growing trend of Viking-themed games last month, after I played the co-op roguelike survival game, Tribes of Midgard. ![]() But in the last two to three years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of games featuring or starring these ruffians. Vikings - the tough Norse warriors who wore horned helmets while raiding villages - hark all the way back to the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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