You will occasionally get a night off from being attacked by the nocturnal nasties, so making the most of this is key. Merchants are out and about too, offering cash in return for your loot. Others can be activated to allow fast travel between regions which is often the safest way to get around. These encounters are always a risk, but usually yield worthwhile rewards.ĭifferent shrines will offer buffs, such as health, mana and energy. You’ll come across camps and outposts that contain loot, but these are usually heavily defended. Heading out and finding the correct raw materials is the best way to start, because you’ll need to craft basic tools before you can harvest the most important resources and tool yourself up. The gameplay is a fairly balanced mix of action, in the form of hack and slash combat, exploration, which leads to gathering resources to craft tools and cook food, and basic sim elements in managing your settlement.Ĭrafting weapons, shields and armor is essential for taking on enemies, especially those with chunkier health bars. Things kick off with a fairly brief tutorial which is designed to show you the basics, as well as give you a shot at taking down one of the bigger baddies. Your ultimate aim is to track the elite world bosses to their lairs, before vanquishing them in an often challenging showdown. You must lead your tribe in the fight against swathes of enemies who are solely focused on destroying the Seed of Yggdrasil (the tree of life). This is a game that submerges you deep in Norse mythology, your primary role being to prevent Ragnarok (the end of the world) which you take on as the Einherjar.

Tribes of midgard genres