Viking Heroes 2
There are no heroes mightier than the Viking and no enemies more fierce! This is good news for the besieged inhabitants of Midgard and the surrounding realms, who need a group of champions to come to their aid after a long-dormant volcano awakens and spews its red-hot contents across the land. And it’s bad news for the dark and destructive force that roused the slumbering mountain.
Join the Viking brothers and sisters on an epic journey through a magical land as they come to the aid of the helpless and seek the one who’s spreading destruction. Join forces with old friends (including the reliably unreliable Loki) to rebuild shattered villages, solve a perplexing mystery and complete simple quests for a multitude of colorful characters.
Your journey will place you at the feet of ferocious dinosaurs, take you through the visually dazzling realm of dreams and challenge you to plan ahead as you amass resources and race to beat the clock!
The stakes are higher, the rewards are greater and the gameplay is more fun than ever! Download and play the Sequel of the Year today!
GAME FEATURES
- 50 super-fun levels to beat
- Bonus chapter (+15 levels)
- Downloadable soundtrack
- Dazzling desktop wallpapers
- Collectable owls
- Easy, Normal and Hard game modes
- Dozens of achievements to earn
- Learn-as-you-play tutorial
- Simple point-and-click gameplay
- Step-by-step game guide
Steam User 10
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“Viking heroes rarely have quiet days. But when brothers Everand and Boromere and their sisters. Helga and Brunnhilde, finally had one, they decided to visit the fair in the neighbouring village. They needed to sharpen their swords, patch their armour, buy seeds for medicinal herbs, swallow a few tankards of mead and commiserate with old comrades. But when they arrived, it appeared that the fair had ended prematurely. From here did the heated stones and pools of steaming lava come, they asked each other. “Did they fall from the sky?”
Starting a new game will ask you to Name your character, followed by choosing the Main Story, there is a Bonus Story with extra levels but you must first complete the main story to unlock the bonus story. Next you can choose the Game Mode, Easy, this is a game without any lime limit so you can play without any worries about racing against time. Normal, this is played with a moderate time limit, Hard is played with a much lower time limit and is for those who want a more challenging game.
There are fifty levels and another fifteen in the bonus story. The first level will have you help the victims of the disaster at the fair. Each level will have a set of goals which you will have to complete in order to finish the level. If playing against the time then you will have to complete all the goals as fast as you possibly can. Then upon completing you will gain one to three stars depending on the time it took you to finish the level. If you have gained enough stars in the prior levels then you will unlock the next level allowing you to continue on your adventure.
There is a tutorial which will help you as you progress, this can be turned if you don’t want the information to help you. You will start from a camp somewhere on the level, from here there are pathways leading around the level. In your way on the paths are resources and other obstacles, you will have to collect the resouces and get by the obstacles in some way. This will allow you to proceed further along the paths unlocking new areas and allow you to complete all the goals. Some items cannot be collected unless you have certain resources, hovering your cursor over and item or obstacle will give you some details on what is required.
Scattered around the level are some buildings which can give you some resources or allow you to perform some other function such as open another area. These buildings will require some work on them before they can start giving you some resources continuously over a small amount of time. You can gain resources from other places like trees, shrubs and chests. You also have a Booster Bar at the bottom of the screen, which will fill up over time. There can be multiple boosters at varying places along the booster bar. It’s up to you which booster you would like to select depending on your current situation.
As you move from one level to the next on the world map, there are some Jig-Saw pieces which will come available to you as you complete the main levels. These jig-saw pieces are a little bonus game where you can gain bonus stars. Also hidden around some levels there are some Owls which you can click on and collect.
In the settings there are options for Sound and Music Volume Sliders, System Cursor, Full Screen and Show Tutorial and that’s your lot.
Viking Heroes II is a fun little game which can be relaxing to play or you can play it with more of a challenge.
Positives
+ Nice graphics
+ Fun and enjoyable for all ages
+ Has achievements
+ Steam cloud
Negatives
- No cards currently
After a mysterious disaster lays waste to magical lands, help the Vikings and their old friends in bringing back the lands to their previous glory in Viking Heroes II.
7/10
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Steam User 7
This is something like the 8th or 9th game in the Viking Brothers series of Time Management games, so at this point you know what you're getting. There's no innovation here, so that's a plus or a minus depending on if you're already a fan of the series or not. If you enjoyed Viking Brothers 3 or Viking Sisters 45 or Viking Cousins 853 or Viking Red-Headed Stepchildren 14 or Viking Mother-in-Laws 27 you'll enjoy this; if you didn't, you won't.
For those somehow new to this series: you play a quartet of heroes each of whom has their own unique specialty that is interchangeable between them depending on the needs of the plot and the level. They're also all siblings except when they're not such as the level where one of them has an aunt that the others never heard of. Anyway, most levels only use two of the four, so there's usually a strong one and one that's either a druid or witch. (The blonde girl who looks like a Valkyrie and the red-haired male dwarf are the strong ones.) And you usually only use them once or twice per level; otherwise it's your standard time management game of sending minions all over the map to collect debris, gather food, chop wood, dig up stone, prospect for gold and mine for gems. Levels can be played on either easy mode or casual mode, with the difference being you are either timed or aren't timed, but you can earn 3 gold stars per level either way. I think. I played it without a timer as I wanted to simply chill and enjoy the good writing and fascinating plot and characterizations, though kids who like racing the clock can play it on that setting if they want.
All achievements are possible with minimal grinding, having only to do levels 49 and 37 twice, so a thumbs up if you're a 100% completer.
For $2.00 or so, the current price during the Steam Autumn Sale, you get a dozen or two dozen hours of fun, with 50 standard and 15 free bonus levels. I haven't tried the 15 bonus levels yet, but that's probably around 3 more hours of content. So, no complaints; I haven't tried it under Windows 11 but it runs fine on either Windows 7 or Windows 10. I give it a Viking Grandfathers thumbs up to those who are already fans of the series.
Steam User 1
I like these sort of games. Very friendly to look at. You can make it as easy or as difficult as you like.
Overall a very charming game
Steam User 1
Ez to play and easily achieved 3 stars ranking too
Steam User 1
Very good game for spending time! Easy tasks and nice story.
Steam User 2
Now this may sound weird but it's how i review games. This is a good proper game and i see now faults in it, if it is your type of game go for it. But it did nothing for me, you just paint by numbers, no real strategy or skill required.
You just do the tasks in order and that's it. So be real sure this type of game is for you.
Steam User 0
It's alright. The "Dangerous Trails" achievement didn't work for me. I guess it glitched. Who can say?