Viking Heroes 5

Good implementation of a casual, time management game, but too many concurrent avenues to work on to be fun for me. Complex gameplay. Good worker run and work speed.

I like to be able to earn 3 stars on a level with an increasing amount of difficulty as the game progresses. I wasn't able to do this on the first time playing a level even for the first few levels. There were simply too many different sequential task threads that needed to be completed concurrently without significant planning that was difficult to do before the level started. And the levels were long enough to not be worth the effort to redo. It's a lot of trial-and-error playthroughs to beat a level with 3 stars. I really like a game that is complex enough to require that, but not from the start.

Excellent game ⭐ 10 / 10 ⭐

I would recommend this game for the Steam Winter Sale. Ironically, however, I bought it for the Steam Summer Sale, so none of the Xmas stuff resonated with me. The story didn't make any sense as it was just a random collection of levels, but then it made sense because the bad guy is a giant raven and everything was an illusion. Anyway, the game does what it advertises: it is a time management puzzle starring Everand, Boromere, Brunnhilde and Helga, so it gets one pinky finger up. Even so, I enjoyed other entries in the series more, as I found this one a bit grindy and incoherent, and the element-puzzles were a bit random. Also, I recommend casual mode as some levels aren't well balanced for speed, though all are doable eventually.