Survive the Winter in Your Viking Settlement with These Strategies

Build a thriving Viking settlement that can withstand the harsh winter season.

Your Viking clan is facing a challenging new frontier, but you can weather the winter by strategically growing your settlement. In the game Landnama, you'll need to search the tiles around your home village to find the best places to raise sheep, gather timber, and fish. As your settlement expands, you'll need to stockpile resources to survive the increasingly demanding winters. Enduring the harsh conditions may not be easy, but a true Viking never backs down from a challenge.

What players love: Carefully balancing the growth of your Viking settlement, from shipbuilders and carpenters to blacksmiths, while also amassing enough resources to withstand the annual deep freeze. Achieving this delicate equilibrium feels like a victory worthy of an epic saga.

Quick tip: Don't spend your first Mastery points until you've thoroughly explored the map and understand the resources available to your settlement. For example, if you have plenty of forests, invest in the Timbercraft skill to boost your woodcutters. If the landscape is dominated by mountains, put points into Bonecarver to give your hunters an edge.

Meet the creators: Michael Champion, Mario Kaiser, and Mathias Tournier, the founders of Sonderland Games, collaborated across the globe to create Landnama. Sonderland is also behind the popular roguelike tower defense games Bella Wants Blood and Core Defense.