Bad North: Jotunn Edition

A Google user

4 years ago

Does not actually seem to function. Says it's connecting to Google Play, then spins its wheels for minutes. It's a *great* game on other platforms, so I look forward to it working on Android. In the meantime, refunded. UPDATE: It seems to work now! It's weirdly super-slow loading up, even before trying to generate a world, but once it gets going, it's brilliant. Perhaps the best controls for Bad North yet!

Doug Webster

4 years ago

This is one of the best strategy games I've found. The gameplay is enjoyable, the art is fantastic, if you screw up, your game is basically over... Like you have to restart... decisions are critical, you pay dearly for screw ups, though it's not so bad that by other good decisions you can't recover. There is a ton of variety, so you can play through again with completely different results. It's awesome, more than worth the price.

A Google user

4 years ago

The game itself is a lot of fun and beautifully animated. The controls are intuitive and responsive. I found myself playing for about an hour before I took a break, but now when I try to load my saved game it just stays on the loading screen. No problem starting a new game, but it's frustrating losing my progress. Are there any responses on fixing this?

A Google user

4 years ago

For a long time I was frustrated because I couldn't find "that game". The perfect balance of challenge, graphics, story, options and immersion. When I saw this was coming to mobile I was thrilled. Honestly the best money I have spent on Any game. Kudos to the dev team for providing such a fantastic concept to mobile! So happy with it I plan to get the pc version as well. You will not be disappointed! Looking forward to more releases from this talented team.

Matthew

4 years ago

Great game! Fun strategy that requires you to think and understand the behavior of the units and come up with strategy. Bugs: It's now almost impossible to play, as nearly every click opens up the menu. I'll go back to 5 stars when the game works. Update: Sometimes clicks in games will get miss mapped, going to odd locations on the map, often the menu. Update 2: Added to this, now the game won't start. Update 3: after reinstall, game still won't start, it gets stuck on "generating islands"

A Google user

4 years ago

Brilliant video game. Controls are easy and fluid, which is nice to see as it allows you to be engrossed in the game, especially with the harder difficulty as this requires some thinking! Very fun unit controls. During game waves, you can replenish units when injured, which can lose you the game if you aren't wise with this. Mistakes can be devistrating! Classes and items are new and fun ways to deal with enemy waves. Well done developers. Keep it up! Good to see real creativity and execution.

Trevor Strahan

2 years ago

This game does not hold your hand (which I like!). Its simplistic style allows older phones to run the game, but its design allows for complex gameplay. Its one of those, "Learn it and earn it" kind of games. You'll make mistakes. Don't be afraid to start over! Learn each class and their strengths. Set priorities dependant on the map and difficulty. Its fun, casual and also challenging. Love this game!

Josh

2 years ago

It's alot of fun, pretty much a tower defense but with more strategy. I see people are having save issues where their save files aren't there or the game isn't saving. I'd recommend not hitting the return to menu button, instead, when you're done playing just hit the home button on your phone and close it that way. When you come back to the game your save should be there. If you die or lose you have to start over. My saves are always there and I can always pick up where i left off. Great fun.

A Google user

4 years ago

This is a fun game. Pretty much rock paper scissors with unit types. It's fairly challenging but not super hard. the graphics are adorable. Unfortunately load times can be long. It doesn't handle switching out of the game and back in very well (I've lost a lot of progress because I've gotten phone calls). Also, after a while it got to the point where I can't load a game at all because it hangs on "Generating Maps" indefinitely. Very sad having a campaign at 80% I can't even load anymore.

A Google user

4 years ago

Great game play, not quite hitting the mark on stability. I made it through many rounds of a game, only to have all of my data gone when I launched the game a few days later. I also am experiencing a bug where the attempt to connect to the Google play store takes forever and essentially freezes the game at the loading screen. But, beautiful game, beautiful graphics, really fun play.

Creedleader 55

3 years ago

I love this game, the controls translate to touchscreen very well, the gameplay is simple and fun, and it's pretty good quality. This would be a 5-star review, HOWEVER, this game has a crippling save bug. It's only just started happening to me. 3 times in a row my save just gets deleted as soon as I quit the game. It doesnt matter if you leave during a battle, exit to main menu, or close the game. You lose your save file and all your time you spent on it.

Bill Gearhart

3 years ago

This is an exceptional defense game with sweet graphics and cool sound effects. I she enjoyed playing the game. Pros, graphics, sound effects, scrolling in and out, challenging, easy to play. Cons, it's hard to remember all of the saved attributes that you can gain during the game including the bonuses to your commanders. It takes a while to play and get good at it but it is enjoyable. I don't think it's nearly as good as polytopia, but still replayable.

Indiana Jones

2 years ago

The game is fun and good and all until you have to restart every time you open. It sets itself up to have a progressive system where for example if you unlock a character with an attribute you can use them in a new run through. The issue is you'll never do that because the game resets itself whenever you close it. Still a good game though. I would love to play it, but it feels like a waste of time since nothing saves.

Matt M.

2 years ago

The game is definitely a lot of fun and can be pretty challenging at times. Nice charactes, upgrades and strategy scenarios. My only issue is with the stability. I've played for maybe 2 hours already and had 2 crashes that completely lost all my saved data both times up to that point, and it can be frustrating. Overall a solid 4 and worth the cost.

Brian Duarte

1 year ago

Right, fairly simple in its design and gameplay. But that's fun! You don't need overly complex mechanics to make a fun game and I believe for a minimalistic RTS, it does it well! The details from the portraits to the models through upgrades is a good touch. Skills are useful and can make a difference in the heat of it. However, my only gripe is you can't replay any of the previous islands without having to restart from the last checkpoint. Other than that? Very enjoyable, simple & easy to play.

Daniel Naso

2 years ago

Worth the 4 dollars!!!! Simple yet incredibly stressful! No micro transactions or ads but what I would do for some extra 4 gold per island... Interesting concept with the ability to go through multiple islands before clicking next turn if you have enough guys. I love the movement. Absolutely devastating when someone dies. I screamed out loud nooooooooo 💔💔💔💔. Only half way through excited to play through again with what I have learned my first time.

Gabriel Jagoe-Seidl

8 months ago

Playing on pixel 6 pro. This game is a gosh darn work of love-art. Brotato simplicity meets age of empires strategy with some quirky art to boot. Great replay value. I'm sure it'll get old someday like all games eventually do. I hope the developers add more content in the future! I'd pay for more high quality content like this👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. I've had no issues with the app or saves and I've played a full game through.