Norland
Last updated: 2025-05-04
- Immersive medieval setting with engaging story.
- Deep, replayable gameplay with enjoyable combat.
- Detailed character and economy management.
- Tedious lord management detracts from experience.
- Excessive randomness and illogical mechanics frustrate.
- Unbalanced AI and limited building system.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 73%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 26%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 72%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 28%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 2389
- Negative points
- 2722
- Gameplay points
- 563
- Perf. points
- 123
- Rec. points
- 937
- Misc points
- 146
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Immersive medieval setting and story | The game is set in a medieval world with emergent narratives filled with betrayals, romances, and coups. The game effectively showcases aspects of harsh medieval life. Many reviewers compare the game to RimWorld and Crusader Kings, but set in the Middle Ages. | 93% |
| Deep, engaging, and replayable gameplay | The game offers a captivating blend of city-building, character management, and political intrigue, creating unique and engaging playthroughs. Choices have meaningful consequences, influencing relationships, economy, and military matters. Many reviewers compare the game to a mix of RimWorld and Crusader Kings, but with its own unique mechanics. | 88% |
| Enjoyable combat and battles | The game features enjoyable combat with simple controls and satisfying animations. Battles are visually appealing, especially large-scale clashes with detailed combat animations, sound effects, and gore. The game balances exploration, puzzle-solving, and combat effectively. | 84% |
| Detailed character and economy management | The game allows you to manage the people in your city, focusing on the noble family and their relationships. The game emphasizes the core role of meeting the needs of the populace, such as housing and diet, in economic development. The game features a closed economy cycle where peasants earn wages and spend them within the kingdom. | 81% |
| Generally fun and enjoyable experience | These points express general positive sentiments about the game, such as it being fun, addictive, and having great potential. However, they lack specific details and actionable feedback, reducing their overall importance. | 63% |
| Active development and easy-to-learn | The developers are actively improving the game based on community feedback, releasing frequent updates, bug fixes, and new content. The game is easy to pick up, with a straightforward tutorial and understandable interface. The difficulty is easy to learn but hard to master, requiring brain engagement. | 49% |
| Charming and appealing art style | The game has a charming and consistent artistic style that creates an authentic medieval atmosphere. The pixel-art style is clean, charming, and readable. The graphics are appealing (if you like this style). | 7% |
| Overwhelmingly positive, unsubstantiated praise | This cluster contains emotional language without specific details, memes, jokes, or sarcasm instead of feedback, hyperbolic claims without evidence, and cultural references. These points show signs of review bombing. | 4% |