# Northgard — user reviews > 1,045 indexed App Store user reviews of Northgard by Playdigious, rated 4.61/5 from 3,616 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northgard/id1533979882/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/northgard/id1533979882.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,958 · 4★ 295 · 3★ 115 · 2★ 60 · 1★ 178 ## What do users think of Northgard? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great game - 👍 Fantastic strategy game - 👍 Challenging and fun - 👍 Excellent port to mobile - 👍 Lots of replayability - 👍 Offline play - 👍 No in-app purchases **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Buggy menus and UI - 🔋 Battery draining - 🐛 Glitchy audio - 🐛 Saves getting deleted - 🐛 Multiplayer issues - 🐛 Achievements not working **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes frequently - Menus and UI are buggy - Audio glitches and cuts out - Saves get deleted unexpectedly - Multiplayer is unreliable - Achievements are not working properly **Most requested features** - Add multiplayer mode - Improve tutorial and instructions - Add controller support - Optimize performance and stability - Add Chinese language support - Improve clan/unit selection and management ## Newest reviews (12 of 1,045) ### 3/5 — I need Chinese *2026-08-17, version 2.2.10_epic* I need Chinese Chinese Chinese ### 4/5 — Please update *2026-08-12, version 2.2.4* This is the best game on the App Store. A quality of life update and bug fix would be appreciated ### 2/5 — Incomplete to the pc version on steam *2026-07-26, version 2.2.4* I love the game. I’m more than angry with this version however, as it is incomplete. I didn’t discover this until purchasing all of the DLC, and this being the second full purchase of the game (first time on steam for my old pc) it’s turned me off completely. ### 4/5 — ngôn ngữ *2026-07-24, version 2.2.10_epic* tôi cần ngôn ngữ việt nam ### 3/5 — Unsure of the problem *2026-06-18, version 2.2.4* So after several hours of gameplay with the story line and single player I just gave up at trying to win. I bought several of the DLC clans thinking they would provide advantages and Im still getting failures on the easy level. Mostly it's the impossibility of just surviving. Currently unsure of the disconnect or why most seem to think this game is so awesome, ill try and set up some examples. First and foremost is the food, one second im up at +35 with full complements of crews working fields/fisheries/and hunting-not counting the several buffs from the lore that ive achieved as well as upgraded storage silos and farms etc. then suddenly without providing feasts or trade routes in food im suddenly starving in summer? no maxed population, I havent even met any other clans to fight but suddenly im starving?? no rats, nor anything that has stolen or disrupted my production, I look at the food icon and no idea how my sudden production now is so far bellow my consumption, which then dumps your happiness which means no new villagers, so I cant build and now I just sit back and watch it all spiral out of control..This was the BEST case ive had so far at coming near to a win.. Second example that happens by far more than anything. Established again with several buffs, trade routes and several incomes of food and resources, no maxed population and maybe 6-8 warriors and the hero..now, I have multiple (say 3-4) healing huts that are upgraded as well as storage silos, and bang mass rats in everything and the advice? build more healers and upgrade the silos..Uh huh except it all spirals out of control as above-again no enemy, not even an issue with wolves or the Drauhgr. Last example that killed my motivation to play further: Trying the falcon clan after trying the kraken, and bear clan. I picked the falcon because several of the looting advantages looked to hopefully offset the bewildering mass losses of resources.. Again, somewhat established, no enemy encountered, several lore masters on the stones and several buffs-suddenly I can 't feed myself again with a bare minimum of people and with 2 fertile farms, 2 fisheries, one hunters hut, and several looted caches/ships/ruins, and im back to square one ON THE EASY LEVEL..So at this point im done, yup money is gone and its no longer worth dumping time into this. Now that being said. The game has several features that seem like decent points: -myriad of clans with different advantages and disadvantages, I mean ALLOT of different qualities-one of the major hooking points for me. -a storyline that mirrors several other past games,survive, build, outlast/build/produce the enemy -Custom game mode (tried it, still no joy) that allows you to customize the victory scenarios etc. -Several types of units, that are tailored to each clan, I liked this (or so I thought) because I felt like I could choose my advantages. -No real crashes or bugs I can attest to that seemed common on past reviews. -while the controls were somewhat straight forward the game did not have a definite tutorial for game play, once I got around that it was fine. Ok some points I did not like, ill start from the first play No tutorial-first info blurb on the screen?select the build icon-uuuh what? ok several different things on the screen, finally I chose the hammer looking thing however I had no idea what the screen information was, I had to tap and play around with it.. so in essence while it would say some hints on the screen, the info wasnt what I needed. no pause button, i mean no pause button so you can take stock in what is happening, so its all real time, pause it and you go to another screen, unhelpful. stats for a clan that meant nothing to me, 3 stars for learning how to use the unit? and support? support for what?? no idea-no tutorial to explain it and frankly im not looking to waste days of my life trying to intuit the meaning complexity of the controls (select/deselect etc.) and the inability to select units with a drag window or something, I dont want my entire army running all over the map, i understood the concept of battle groups but the ability to create them was not very well thought out imbalance of resources vs supply/unit production..to construct a woodcutters hut, 50 ish wood and the amount it produces is low, same for nearly each resource building vs allowed gains, ya you can add workers to increase production but its still low. happiness is a joke, I had breweries, lore units, buffs etc. and I could never get it above 6-8 and then it would crash again within a few minutes of gameplay..click on the face and it almost always said -xx population?? seriously, im spread out over half the map and theyre saying its over crowded?? no matter if I had upgraded houses or un maxed populations, still sucked-no matter how many buffs/happiness structures/people/resources I dumped into it, guaranteed negatives with double digits within a game, nearly always due to a starvation issue.. At first I thought it was the winter time but after some monitoring it just didnt make any sense..healers? nope. Trade? nope, better houses? oh after dumping all my stone/workers/wood into upgrades on 4 houses it raised it ONE point.. building an army..K one training camp gives you TWO units, ok sure some buffs increase that, but even then it might give you two more, so now I need to build more camps, and then build different camps to build different units..the amount of resources you dump into them is ridiculous.. Mining-everything in the upgrades REQUIRES STONE, guess what? no mines with stone in your area?? OH WELL S.T.B.Y.! there are metal mines and stone quarries, and oh ya! they dont last for more than 15-20 stone, couple that with it costs 6-10 stone to upgrade one building? ha good luck. There are a few more points, but since it wont let me write further ill stop. In short not worth my time trying to figure this out despite all the placations the devs will probably drop on this. ### 4/5 — It’s good but… *2026-06-06, version 2.2.4* Achievements are not unlocking and support is not supporting. ### 2/5 — Bugs and crashes *2026-06-02, version 2.2.4* iPhone 16 Pro Max and it crashes just as you’re getting a good flow in the game. Freezes, so you can’t save it, then crashes. Nice. ### 2/5 — Fun but really buggy *2026-02-08, version 2.2.4* I’ve encountered the following issues with the game: 1. Game data file’s size is constantly growing, after initial 900mb it grew more than 3 GB and was continuing growing; 2. Restoring the save after reinstall and completing the mission doesn’t restore the position on the Story map, you’ll have to start the Story from the beginning. Considering this, I’ll not buy any of the in-apps until the above mentioned issues are fixed. Otherwise it’s a fun and a solid rts. ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-01-27, version 2.2.4* This was exactly what I was looking for and it scratched that itch, great game, runs smooth. Fun story mode, I actually prefer the story mode, I wish they would add several stories to go through instead of just the one. But the online or single player sandbox is fun too. ### 5/5 — New clans? *2026-01-17, version 2.2.4* Dear developers, when can we expect new clans to appear? They have already been released in the PC version. ### 5/5 — chinese language please *2026-01-12, version 2.2.4* chinese language please ### 5/5 — Languages requiring *2026-01-01, version 2.2.4* Greetings, I really do enjoy the game. As I can merely read English, I would really appreciate if you could add a Chinese for this game. It would means a lot. Please. Thanks and happy new years. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ai is screwed *2026-08-12, version 2.2.4* Custom domination is impossible because ai not constrained by gold, food or military buildings. Also they don’t seem to fight each other. This is a really unfair system and ruins the game. Please fix or refund me ### 1/5 — 🫩 *2026-08-08, version 2.2.10_epic* Buns waste of money don’t play ### 1/5 — Bugs *2026-05-11, version 2.2.4* Games starts crashing immediately after you open, issue began after playing just for a few hours ### 1/5 — Wont even load anymore *2026-05-09, version 2.2.4* The game won’t even load anymore ### 1/5 — 需要中文 *2026-05-04, version 2.2.4* 需要中文 ### 1/5 — WHY PLAYDIGIOUS!!? *2026-04-26, version 2.2.4* I wanted to play this game so bad but when I loaded it up it couldn’t run over 0.2 frames per second!! THIS HAPPENED WITH DEAD CELLS TOO! YOU HAVE A COMPLETELY FINE “DEVICE NOT COMPATIBLE” BUTTON, IPAD GENERATION 8 FROM 2018 SHOULD NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM!! JUST PUBLISH MOBILE GAMES! COMPUTER GAMES CAN’T RUN ON AN IPAD!! Edit: It’s generation 7, sorry ### 1/5 — Games broke *2026-03-28, version 2.2.4* Paid, downloaded, press single player and that’s it. Game freezes. Cool. Now I have to go the ordeal of getting my 7.99 back ### 1/5 — Why did I pay you? *2026-02-13, version 2.2.4* Half of all the menu’s in the game don’t even fit into the screen or overlap with other menus which should have closed but didn’t. Absolutely no navigation to move them or close them except memory of where the exit button is “supposed” to be. Multiple examples of this just in the start menu. Come on guys. ### 1/5 — no longer working *2025-10-30, version 2.2.4* Since upgrading to an M16 ipad running ios 26.01, I can't get beyond the opening Spiro screen. This is after having deleted my original version, which at least opened but was unstable, and reinstalled the current model. Hope someone can solve this. The mobile app isn't anything like as elaborate and curated as the desktop version, but it passed the time ok. But no longer. ### 1/5 — It just keeps crashing *2025-10-28, version 2.2.4* No idea what they did recently, but the app just keeps crashing. It actually even stays open in the background but quits almost immediately. I deleted it and reinstalled it and then I reset my phone- all to no avail. Game is pretty fun. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun and challenging game. *2026-08-14, version 2.2.10_epic* Lots of replayability and harder modes require some real strategy. ### 5/5 — Really good game *2026-08-11, version 2.2.4* Really good game but I hope you guys update to add the newer dlcs ### 5/5 — Could you add Chinese language support *2026-07-18, version 2.2.4* Could you add Chinese language support ### 5/5 — Love hate relationship *2026-06-22, version 2.2.4* I love this game, but I’m so tired of the glitches. I play multiplayer with my kids against the AIs. We spend 3-4 hours playing, and then something happens, the game locks up, and that’s it. Sometimes it’s trying to sharp eye a zone, send the lightening with a relic, or just a really big battle with a lot of units. If you sit there, it’s just locked up indefinitely. If you swipe up, and come back in to the multi player menu, you have about a 25% chance that you can get back in. So pretty much every game one of us gets locked out and can’t finish the game. ### 5/5 — Need Something new *2026-06-21, version 2.2.4* Please Give us an Update! That would be great if the game can be played with real players. ### 5/5 — Hope we get updates *2026-05-30, version 2.2.4* Very unique and fun settlers-type game, hopefully we get more updates in mobile. The PC has a lot of new dlcs and updates :) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-03-15, version 2.2.4* I love this game so much, I love playing the boar clan so much I haven’t played the other clans before tbh, it’s really fun I think there might be some kind of memory leak tho, because my iPad says that this app takes up 80 gigabytes… ### 5/5 — New update! *2026-03-06, version 2.2.4* Hello devs Northgard Mobile needs version like pc. I really love this game. Pls do more updates and add more clans. ### 5/5 — 需要中文 *2026-02-17, version 2.2.4* 什么时候有中文 ### 5/5 — Good Game BUT *2026-02-14, version 2.2.4* Told be true this is real good game and i’m very like it BUT it isn’t have the language i used, it is difficult to play and I almost give up. Please add Chinese language support --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*