Die for Valhalla!

Sound: 5
Graphics: 6
Story: 6
Gameplay: 5
Commands: 4
Fun: 5
Time to load / lag: 9
Bugs / Problems: 9
Final score: 5

- Art is beautiful
- Gameplay more or less
- level and mob design poor -> idk what player base seeks this game, but it is poor
- simple story not bad

After all, first two hours are fine, then it is boring. Dynamic of game is quite fine, good coop. Skills are random.

Tbf, Castle Crashers are great than Die for Valhalla. Idk, give it a shot. In discount it can cost around 3,5€.

I guess time passes differently in Valhalla, because I've played this game for 7-8 hours max...

My son and I really wanted to like this game. But no.

PROS
Nice art.
Interesting level-up system.

CONS
Even when we tried to develop 2 characters differently, we felt they play pretty much the same.
The levels and the enemies felt too repetitive.
High level enemies were basically the same as low level ones but with much more HP.
Controls felt a bit stiff or even unresponsive when fighting lots of enemies.
Boss fights (specially the late ones) were super boring.

I got this game for almost nothing. If you can catch a good sale it's definitely worth it (im talking sub 5 bucks). The art is nice but the combat is limited. All things considered there must be something to it because I played it longer than some more expensive games.

This is a nice little game for local co-op mayhem. You possess different types of warriors with different abilities. It could use a bit more in terms of what different potions mean and so on. The late game is a bit grindy, with bosses that will wear out your controllers and hands trying to finish off their health bars. We only unlocked half of the clans the first time through, so it has a bit of replayability to unlock the others and try to get their achievements. The humor is pretty well done.

I'd recommend it, it's a good game with nice mechanics, it can be challenging as well, you can play as a regular beat'em all or as a roguelike, it has RPG elements to it, the difficulty is increasing as you gain more power, the art style and the music are really nice and helps the story delivering, there is also funny moments with the cut-scenes which introduce a level, you have several classes and many possiblities to approach the game, it is really easy to pick up, has a nice playtime and a great variety of enemies, themes and customisations.

It has pretty mediocre game design. The level-up system is nice, but the game play feels stale. The enemies don't get more interesting as the game progresses, they just get more HP. The final boss seems impossible to beat without grinding. Buy Castle Crashers, Charlie Murder, or Son of a Witch instead.

I am somewhat mixed on this game. It has great animations, creative and diverse monsters that generally require different strategies to take down, and some hilarious cut scenes. That being said i would take a hard look at this game before buying it because it is pretty short and gets insanely repetitive at times because some monsters can have a boatload of hp. Overall this game was great but i would mainly consider it to be a time killer.

A little bit boring but the boss system was good. I bought this game to play with my brother. My brother don't like it and I played all the game alone. If I played it co-op, I know I love the game more and more.
Pros:
+Body-ghost system never seen before.
+Stat upgrades are very creative.
Cons:
-Music is good but not epic. I can't understand is it a normal music or a boss music.
-Sfx not.
-There was no sense of knock. (Caused by Sfx.)

But it's still playable.

Die for Valhalla is cunning in its naming as it slowly induces the person playing to kill themselves for real.
If i could have jumped my character out of the screen and had him hack my eyeballs out i surely would have.
I kept playing and playing and playing and nothing changed or happened or ........sweet jesus , that is the worst game i have played for , i dont know how long!
10/10

What a gem! $9-12 of hack n slash fun!

Fans of "Rampage knights" and "Castle Crashers" this is a great game for you .

Die for Valhalla follows the same pace, environments and formula as castle crashers with quite a bit more attention to skill point allocation and character development.

This game, while a fun multi-player, still shines with an entertaining singleplayer mode. This is often not the case for hack n slash beat em up games. You start by picking a spirit who represents a season. As that spirit, you can possess objects or revivable vikings to fight and dominate the battlefield in silly ways. Each viking represents a class or style of fighting with special moves. Pets can be found on some maps by defending a point (warning the shrines health will be your pets health, and yes pets can die). Hopefully pets can be permantly unlocked, as they feel somewhat useless at the moment acting as dumb damage sponges. If you leave a map to the overworld view, you have the option to unlock clan houses that contain various types of vikings and bonus perks.

The skill allocation system is the real meat of the game. You have two trees with their own points, "skills" and "runes". Skills are simply a randomized cluster of abilities or perks (you can pick one per level). Picking "runes" is like playing "minesweeper" to maximize your base stats (hp, magic, def, atk).

The game could use a few more monster variations, pets, boss battles and a central "hub" for unlocked pets. But just as any game, that comes in time.

Very straight forward hack and slash. Plot is ok. Graphics are ok. If you get it cheap and want to mindlessly grind then this is the game for you. I was about a third of the way through the game and I lost all interest in it.

This game is extremely well made, interesting take on the side scrolling 2D hack and slash game. Very similar to Castle Crashers, but the Valkyrie system is very intriguing. You play as a Valkyrie that can ressurect and take control over a deceased viking warrior, that are all over in the maps you play. There are a decent amount of variance as well, so if you need to be tactical for a boss fight, you can switch them out without too severe of a penalty.

Should also be said that I play this Co-op locally with my SO, and we both enjoy the levelling system, the combat and variety, She likes controlling explodable barrels and jumping into mobs, and me and blowing herself up.
10/10 thus far, just hope the game is long enough to enjoy for a while.

Quite a fun co-op game so I recommend it if you liked games like castle crasher, viking squad.

I do however have 1 big complaint, the difficulty scaling is really poor. It goes from being too easy to too hard very very quickly. What I mean by that is that you level up your character and feel stronger everytime. Once you get to the volcano (maybe 2 to 3 hours in), the difficulty spikes immensely and you feel weaker than when you started the game. It's not a transition or anything, enemies have more health, they hit harder.

Either way, still a fun game! Especially for the price.
Definitely worth it.

For a very, very long time I have not had so much fun playing any game! Pure action and fun. A great choice for playing with friends! If you miss the classic side scroll, but in a modern version, then there is nothing to wait for, try it!

Charming, funny, action packed and rather difficult beat them up game.

What I liked in Die for Walhalla:
- quite challenging gameplay
- nice graphics, great design of monsters and bosses
- you will hack and slash tousends and feel somehow light and relaxed
- bloody Vikings!
- couch co-op mode with bloody Vikings!

What I did not like:
- design of some levels looks somehow similar
- boss fights are sometimes difficult as hell and frustrating (especially in single player mode)

Overall: for this price its must-have selection if you like this kind of games.

I bought this game after watching KeepEtClassy play it. Overall I'd say it's short and fun, and even more short and fun if you have 1-3 friends with you and sufficient controllers. I had neither, but nonetheless it was good. It took seven hours to beat, and a better player will be able to do it quicker than that, but if you do Hardcore mode you'll be having a few Game Overs to go through.

In a lot of ways this is your classic side-scrolling beat 'em up - move about and try to judge if the enemy is on the same plane as you, standard jump-attack-heavy buttons that you string together in combos, you know the deal if you were born before the 90s. While it looks very "Made in Macromedia Flash", it keeps to the visual style all the way through. It plays well, and the simple combat style (modified by particular special abilities of certain "classes") is easy to get caught up in.

It's certainly not a Final Fight 3 level of polished brawler, but it has its own unique elements. Also the levelling system is fun and fits into the theme. The game is cheap, so if you like to run about and hit people with an axe, I'd say go for it.

Way better then I expected ;) Really cool couch co-op game, which holds up really well when you play alone.

Glorious!
Side scrolling beat 'em up with a viking bent.
Really good fun.
Slightly simplistic controls, great music and cutscenes.
Distinctive art style. I love it. :D

https://youtu.be/YbRjQ-WniAM

Beat 'em up? Sure. Roguelite? No. From the description, I was expecting something like Rampage Knigths or Son of a Witch, but this game lacks a lot in the roguelike department. The only roguelike feature it has is permadeath - and the game is so easy that you might never get to see it.

I would have still liked the game if the rest was good, but there are many flaws. The graphics is very nice, almost Don't Starve like, but the animations are stiff and many of the attack animations just look weird. The combat actually flows pretty good, you can stun-lock enemies with quick attacks until you run out of stamina. I was surprised to see a Dark Souls-like stamina bar in a beat 'em up game, but it works alright (except for boss fights where you can only do a couple of hits before saving the stamina for dodging). So, fighting regular enemies is good, it's just that it looks a bit weird on the screen.

Bosses are a completely different matter. The boss fights are so tedious. It shows that the game lacked play testing, because for some bosses you can simply stand next to them and keep hitting, while he repeats trying to stomp you and keeps missing. For others, you have to land a few hits and then dodge away. The main problem is the stamina which makes you have to repeat this way too many times before the boss is dead.

There's no real exploration. The levels are completely linear, there aren't even those optional rooms like shops/treasure rooms in Rampage Knights. The map was probably supposed to give you some sense of exploration, but it's just a "level picker" really. This works fine for a beat'em up, but it isn't a rougelite at all. Even Lost Castle has more exploration than this game.

Another problem is variety. Two hours into the game and I keep seeing the same bushes and barrels. I did get to see some caves and such, but once you exit, your back to the same thing. I cannot imagine playing this as a true roguelike in die & repeat style. Compare to The Binding of Isaac, Rampage Knights, Son of a Witch where you get to see 6-7 different environments if you play the game for one hour.

The enemy variety is actually good. There are melee ones, ranged ones, shielded enemies, flying enemies where you have to jump to hit them, tough enemies which take some time to take down, spiders and scorpions, etc. This is actually what kept me playing the game for this long.

There's no weapon / item variety. The whole point of roguelike games like The Binding of Isaac or Son of a Witch is that you can find (or buy) various weapons and items which you can combine in interesting ways to build up your character. When I mention buying, there are no shops or treasure rooms with weapons. The only way to build your character is to level up after the level is complete. The problem with leveling is that it locks you into your choices for a very long time. So, if you see some enemy type and wish to change your tactics mid-run, though luck. Not possible in this game. Compare that to other games where there are weapon drops all the time and you can switch often.

The main reason I got the game was because I was hoping for replayability that other games in this roguelike beat'em up genre have. But for this game there's simply no reason to start over again once you complete it.

FInal score: 4/10.