For a while now I’ve been wanting to play a game where I was some kind of Viking. With how many people are playing Viking Rise these days I thought I’d look into this city builder PvP game and see if it could hold any interest for me.
It became quite apparent within moments of playing this game that Viking Rise follows quite a blueprint setup that you would expect from a mobile game that has city building and PvP. It had quite a lot of similarities to mobile games I’ve played in the past such as Game of Thrones Winter is Coming among others.
While there were some key differences as well. It became quickly apparent it was just not going to be enough to keep me around from the issue I always see in these kinds of games. That is boosters and PvP. More on that in a bit.
When I first entered the game, it appeared to have a little bit of a story. As much as one can expect for a mobile game. I also noticed the map my kingdom is on was quite massive. It gave me high hopes this game was going to be quite different than what I’ve come to expect from certain kinds of mobile games.
It seemed quite like I had to hire some workers and manually tell them to do things. First, they were just picking food, stone, and wood off the ground. When I could not find any further of that they had to clear out some of the forest that was around me.
Before long I needed to raise a bigger army to take out a pack of evil creatures. Once they were defeated that would allow me to gather even more resources. These resources for the most part are, however, a one-time deal.
While sure I’d get some random quest here and again that would suddenly have a wood pile appear down the road from my kingdom. That I then could spend people out to gather. I would have to keep building my armies to take on even more challenging PvE content if I wanted to have enough resources to continue growing.
Along the way, there are also just an insane amount of short and easy quests that give rewards. I’ve found in my personal experience from playing games like these. That such rewards are just there to feed you into a binge of massive growth.
They give you boosters, free in-game gems, and most importantly lots of building resources like wood and food. Such easy comings however would not last forever. I’ve found games like these are designed to get you hooked on easy rewards, so you are spinning in your seat when you come up short on building materials and have to wait hours for a single building to finish.
I however knew that ahead of time. So instead of rushing to wait. I decided I’d be waiting regardless and held onto any premium currency and boosters that I got. If I was going to use a booster it would be in a way I could leverage.
Such as if I need to be offline for eight hours. I have a building that would take 6 hours, but my current building has an hour remaining before it finishes. So, I would use a booster to finish off the hour. Then I’d have a six-hour building construction while I was offline instead of an hour one. Optimizing my time away from the game the best I could.
