Viking Rise: Train Your Dragon

From Rise of Kingdoms to Clash of Clans, Civ, and Age of Empires, I’ve put significant time into nearly every variation of the current mobile RTS structured template. What may differ here and there is generally overshadowed by copy/paste controls and gatcha stylized events. And in terms of controls and navigation itself, VrV is no exception. However, this feels more like an intentional strategy put in place by IGG in order to help mitigate the players initial learning curve, then it does a cut corner. For starters, VrV genuinely has a FtP option that doesn’t exploit years of your time with very little progress. What can be purchased here is on average about an hour of FtP effort. And one can argue that achievement earned is half the appeal of the RTS gaming experience to begin with. VrV is more focused on immersing you within its intricately woven, and flawlessly designed world. For example, rather than a small isolated area of land, VrV gives you control of an extensively designed kingdom, over time. You’ll begin to occupy enemy villages across a vast, open and accessible land, whose citizens will in turn become loyal to you. Not to mention that virtually all of it is customizable to your liking. Its UI alone deserves countless award nods. From the wild life behavior, atmosphere, and even reactivity to light, EVERYTHING feels as if it were decades in development.

Hello there dev team for starters I hope your having a good day, (Gameplay) Overall the game runs clean easy and smooth, learning is easy and if your willing to give a little bit of time then the game really rewards you for that, furthermore if you like (AoE) this game adds that effect to that, (combat) is simple, I have yet to try player vs player, however I don’t fancy it in games like this. I gave this review for a few reasons, 1. Rewards the games seems to give constant rewards as you play 2. The development team and the people who put time into doing the voice overs, 3. Style 4. Combat and 5. Its well polished and given love. I really hope you developers keep giving it your all and do things YOU want, make changes for good not for worse keep the balancing up and allow everyone to get everything at a reasonable rate I.E free to play and pay to win, allow elevation to either side and make it compete-able but never forget to do it in your own way, as for the rest of you players who enjoy or want to enjoy the game please give proper feedback and allow games like this to grow in good ways recommend this to your friends family and strangers dive into it and become a worthy champion!! Thanks for your time and the patience to read my review!

I have been playing this game for a long time now, and while this is definitely a great game, if you want to make it into the elite group of players (R4s for the top tribe)on your kingdom (which I have gone in and out of), you need to either spend a few hundred dollars to get an enormous amount of might (strength) or be online for 8+ hours a day. Also worth mentioning is many tribes in top positions require their players to join the tribe’s group on social media like discord and telegram, which turns away a lot of younger aged players. Another problem with the top tribes is by the third week in a kingdom, only the top 2-3 tribes will actually have active players, as a resulting of the top tribes destroying the smaller one for their own power. For these reasons, I agree with many of the more senior players that this game is passing its prime, even with the new collab events and hero skins. I hope the devs will make more incentives for the bigger tribes to allow the smaller ones to grow, and not make ghost kingdoms like I have started seeing. Otherwise, this is a great game, and I look forward to what comes next. To Valhalla!