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Trial by Viking

75% positive of 12 Steam reviews

Released: 2016
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Last Life Games.

About the game

As an agent of Odin, you will dive into cavernous dungeons hunting for treasure, race for your life from surprise traps, and have vicious axe battles with blood-thirsty kobolds. If you like action-packed side-scrolling adventures, you won't want to miss Trial by Viking.

Tagged by players

Vikings
Puzzle Platformer
Platformer
Action
Adventure

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What players say

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Trial by Viking is an ambitious indie action-platformer that blends classic 2D side-scrolling gameplay with exploration-heavy design and a strong thematic pull from Norse mythology. Developed and published by Last Life Games, the title places players in the role of a chosen warrior tasked by Odin to survive a series of brutal trials scattered across a dangerous, interconnected world. From the outset, the game…
9.8 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
After 25+ hours of playing this on normal, I'd say this is a very good, almost great game. My attention span for games seems to be around 15-20 hours but this kept me interested the whole time, up through about level 103 out of 130. And I'd still be playing it if it weren't for the dark holes. They are not fun. At all. They are like gravity holes that suck you in and spin you around them. They are highly annoying…
25 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
The fact that this game is level based already disqualifies it from being a "metroidvania" game as the developers like to claim. the controls are smooth, the momentum makes sense, but if an enemy hits you, you can get sent back into a crevice with no way of getting out. As a whole, I do feel this game is fun, but they suckered me in by saying it was a metroidvania style game which is such a blatant lie that I will…
2.2 h played when written. 8 found it helpful.
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