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Northgard
Playdigious · 12,497 ratings · ★ 4.4
4.4
★★★★★
12,497 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 26 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
15 negative reviews mention this · 58% of all complaints
★★★★★ "MAJOR FRAME RATE ISSUES! I hadn't built anything yet and Northgard was already stuttering for me on the opening screen. My tablet has 5GB of RAM and 11GB of free space. This game is great on PC or console, but the average tablet just doesn'…" - Flakey Tunes
2
"play"
6 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I cannot even open the app long enough to play. It will show the loading bar, then the app closes." - Nathan Roberts
3
"crashes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "- Bad UI - Game crashes - Settings too basic for a strategy game - Updates are rare" - Aleksandar Popović
4
"long"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Keeps crashing on Android 16, never crashed on Android 9. Clearly not updated for a long time." - Jakub Fojtík
5
"version"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "get this from play pass and almost unplayable. Dimensity 9400+ here, so it's not about raw power, but the stupid playpass keep disconnecting - meaning endless crash and can't reconnect/reopen. I love this game, from steam. But the android v…" - Mien Le Hoang
6
"terrible"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "get this from play pass and almost unplayable. Dimensity 9400+ here, so it's not about raw power, but the stupid playpass keep disconnecting - meaning endless crash and can't reconnect/reopen. I love this game, from steam. But the android v…" - Mien Le Hoang
7
"issues"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "MAJOR FRAME RATE ISSUES! I hadn't built anything yet and Northgard was already stuttering for me on the opening screen. My tablet has 5GB of RAM and 11GB of free space. This game is great on PC or console, but the average tablet just doesn'…" - Flakey Tunes
8
"enough"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "MAJOR FRAME RATE ISSUES! I hadn't built anything yet and Northgard was already stuttering for me on the opening screen. My tablet has 5GB of RAM and 11GB of free space. This game is great on PC or console, but the average tablet just doesn'…" - Flakey Tunes
9
"tutorial"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "boring after 5 minutes. cant train new troops literally still in the "tutorial" part and already deleted. womp womp" - Joseph Hager
10
"android"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Keeps crashing on Android 16, never crashed on Android 9. Clearly not updated for a long time." - Jakub Fojtík
11
"cannot"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I cannot even open the app long enough to play. It will show the loading bar, then the app closes." - Nathan Roberts
12
"game crashes"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "- Bad UI - Game crashes - Settings too basic for a strategy game - Updates are rare" - Aleksandar Popović
📋 All 26 negative reviews
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MAJOR FRAME RATE ISSUES! I hadn't built anything yet and Northgard was already stuttering for me on the opening screen. My tablet has 5GB of RAM and 11GB of free space. This game is great on PC or console, but the average tablet just doesn't have enough power to run it. Unless you've got a top-notch device, expect a sub-par experience.
I did not enjoy this much less understanding it was impossible.
the additional files refused to download no matter what
no updates
boring after 5 minutes. cant train new troops literally still in the "tutorial" part and already deleted. womp womp
Keeps crashing on Android 16, never crashed on Android 9. Clearly not updated for a long time.
I cannot even open the app long enough to play. It will show the loading bar, then the app closes.
get this from play pass and almost unplayable. Dimensity 9400+ here, so it's not about raw power, but the stupid playpass keep disconnecting - meaning endless crash and can't reconnect/reopen. I love this game, from steam. But the android version is too terrible. If you can't make it stable, then don't public it
I loved this game on iOS/iPhone; the graphics were amazing. However, for some reason, on Android, they are terrible. I am using Galaxy S25 ultra, and yet the graphics feel like something from 2016. I know they have good graphics on the Apple, so why are we getting lesser version?
crashes nearly every game. acheivements dont work. sick of having to restart from save point on crashing. doesnt even display the stats at the end of a game some time. thegames are long so how broken it is make the experience rubish. not worth its price you get a game with half the content needing you to pay moreeven though the game is broken anyway. save your money
Not designed to be played on a mobile device at all. At a readable the UI buttons overlap making the game almost impossible to play.
Love the PC version but unfortunately poorly optimised for mobile. Constantly crashes, basically in under 1min, making the game unplayable. I left this same review in Oct 2023, came back now over 2 years later and yep... Same issue is still persistent, keeping the game unplayable. Sorry Playdigious, but it's clear you're not putting enough focus on fixing this game. It could be one of the best mobile RTS in the playstore if you only fixed the playability issues. Cannot recommend still! 0/5
Bought this on the Google play store, but it only opens once. After closing out of it for the first time, the app won't open again.
full of issues. the game mechanics are hardly explained. game did not save. scouts always return to farmers... not serious.
Every time I want to continue playing the game, the app crashes when I open it.
Game looks good but I was only able to play once .. once you exit the game crashes . only thing that works is a new install. even tried clearing cache etc ... nothing . for a paid game this is unacceptable. I expect a refund . Google pixel 10 pro.
fix black flickering
- Bad UI - Game crashes - Settings too basic for a strategy game - Updates are rare
for controlling it's terrible. you will spend allot of time wanting to pull out your hair
still no update for new clans it's far behind the pc version. disappointing
Game won't even start downloading the additional resources. Tried everything
If I could came my money back I would. This game is perfect example for it. You can't do that, you died, you can't do that. Grind. You died. You can't do that, you died. Oh and do t forgyto grind. Oh and you can't build there but even if you send your scouts and milita you still can't progress and build there.
lost my saves twice in a few days
Dont bother trying to play multiplayer. Was playing for an hour and the game crashed and now the lobby is gone so i cannot rejoin....i cannot believe this is still happening a year later. This game has promise but my god fix the bugs...
I like the concept of this game which is similar to Battle Realms. What I don't like is the skrimish battle me vs AI where the balance of the resource is not fair. The spawn of the villager is too slow while the AI almost have no time issue for spawning villager same goes to the happiness, food, wood, krowns, stone, metal but the AI can produce faster. Put a tutorial for learning all the clans other than the free one.
this game has a lot of potential but there are several things that really ruin the enjoyment. The UI is pretty terrible, as an example if you meet to many factions you can choose what materials to trade so you have to have chosen it early and if you wait to long you can only trade food. The tutorial is also in need of work. you can select the area being attacked and send your civilians to defend it but that wasn't in the tutorial. it's a lot of stuff like that
Sentiment summary
83%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
10%
Negative (1-2★)