Valhalla Hills has that pretty much nailed down. While this adds a nice sense of progress, especially for players unused to the slower pace of German-style village games, the real joy in this type of game is simply setting up a village and letting its inhabitants carry on their daily lives therein. You can also build altars and make offerings to the portal guardians, if you prefer a more peaceful approach, though that’s not very Viking, now, is it? Your individual citizens will persist from one level to the next, building up “Honor” statistics as they go, hopefully accumulating enough to join the father of the gods in Valhalla. To gain access to the next level, you’ll have to open a magic portal and defeat the creatures who spill out of it. Instead of building up a single civilization from hamlet to village to town to empire, Valhalla Hills has you moving from one island to the next, unlocking new buildings and options along the way. Where fellow indie Settlers clone Hearthlands adds complexity, Valhalla Hills actually strips things down somewhat, while also adding a sense of progression via multiple levels. Currently in Early Access, it still has a few rough edges, but the game’s central activity of building little Viking towns is not without its charm. Valhalla Hills is another take on the venerable village-management sim, building on the tradition of the Settlers or Cultures series-developers Funatics actually created the latter series-and attempting to put its own spin on things.
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