Dead In Vinland

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About Dead In Vinland

About this game

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Exiled on a faraway and unknown land, lead Eirik and his family on their quest to survive.

Manage their physical and mental health, explore the island, organize your camp and deal with other human beings. Some will help you, and some will be less... friendly.
Unveil the esoteric mysteries of Vinland. They could save your life… or lead you to your demise.

KEY FEATURES

  • Deep survival management simulation : find and gather resources, secure a supply of food, take care of the mental and physical health of your characters, fight diseases and wounds, ration your water supplies, endure the elements (storm, drought, rain…).
  • Challenging: the game is turn-based so you have time to take the best decisions, but the challenge is high! You’ll have to adapt to the crisis the game throws at you, with your own reasoning.
  • 3 modes of difficulty: if you just want to enjoy the story, we added an easy mode and, for the crazy lunatics, we added both an extreme difficulty and iron man mode, that even the developers of the game can’t beat!
  • Build your camp: expand your shelter with 18 activity stations, each one with its own mechanics. Craft more than 130 upgrades and dozens of items to give you precious bonuses. Choose well, you won’t be able to craft everything.
  • Manage a community: 14 playable characters, each one with their own strengths, flaws and stories. Influence how their relationships evolve with meaningful dialog choices, achieve one of the 7 possible romances or kick annoying characters from your camp and recruit new ones. And some surprises!
  • Explore the island: 150 areas to discover with hundreds of objects to interact with. Unveil the many secrets of the island and its beautiful, hand-painted landscapes.
  • Don’t just survive, settle: you can hunt, harvest, fish… but you can also grow a garden and breed sheep! Advanced camp stations with special mechanics.
  • Live your own adventure: complete 70 non-linear quests to reach the end of the game. Depending on your choices, learn about what happened to your characters after the end.
  • Animosity and tribute system : be “welcomed” by the infamous tyrant Björn Headcleaver and his merry band of robbers. Bend the knee and pay him weekly tributes, or rebel… and face the consequences.
  • Full RPG system: 5 health states to care for, 20 skills to develop, more than 600 character traits, 100 items to collect, 30 diseases and 20 wounds to die from… Customize your characters: choose from 5 randomly generated special traits every time they level up.
  • Turn-based tactical combat: quick and deadly 3 vs 3 battles against Björn’s minions. 5 unique playable character classes, each with its own set of fighting skills, and 5 passive classes.
  • HUGE content: more than 150 000 words - twice the size of the first Harry Potter book - telling a mature yet humorous story.         

    DEAD IN VINLAND is the second installment in the “Dead In…” universe, after DEAD IN BERMUDA. The two games are standalones, but you’ll learn a bit more about the secrets behind these strange islands and the general background in each game of the series.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
April 12, 2018
Developer:
Ishtar Games
Publisher:
Ishtar Games
Rating:
PEGI rating of 16
Supported Languages:
English
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Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1
  • Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTS 450
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 1280x720 minimal screen resolution

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: MacOS X 10.6
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTS 450
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 1280x720 minimal screen resolution

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Critic Reviews

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71 / 100
"Dead in Vinland combines resource management, RPG combat, uneven writing, and a lot of diciness into something I couldn't stop playing until I finished it."

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Rosh Kelly
7.6 / 10
"Dead in Vinland is a Viking game in the style of Darkest Dungeon. It's fun, well paced and slightly overcomplicated, but ultimately worth it."

Worth Playing

Lauren Hall
8.9 / 10
"Dead in Vinland is easily one of the best games I've played, and its addictiveness is real."
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Dead In Vinland User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 4 ratings
75% of users would recommend this.
4.3

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While it has potential, i can't reccomend it as is.

Biostrain
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I actually like Death in Vinland quite a bit… which makes it even more frustrating to say this: the game is kind of held together by duct tape, hope, and a mild contempt for the player. I finished it on easy vacation mode (the only difficulty I could survive), and even there I ran into a fundamental design problem: random events that are not just unpredictable, but occasionally run the game off a cliff. You can end up in situations where you need a specific item to progress… and the game has already quietly removed any possible way for you to obtain it. That’s not difficulty, that’s the game forgetting it has a main quest. And then there’s the real highlight: the woman with the giant sword who apparently crash-landed from Krypton. She is, for all practical purposes, indestructible. In about 50 hours of play, I managed to defeat her exactly once, and I’m still not entirely sure how that happened. This, on easy mode... with multiple saves. Meanwhile, the actual final boss felt like a warm-up act compared to her. It’s absurd in the worst possible way: I like hard games, but this isn’t challenging, it’s inconsistent design wearing difficulty as a disguise. Between progression-breaking RNG and one completely unbalanced “optional” enemy that feels like a dev accidentally left God mode enabled, these two issues are enough for me to stop recommending the game, despite everything else it does well.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are you ready for a challenge? 36% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 64% of GameFAQs users said Dead In Vinland is Tough or Unforgiving.
According to PEGI, Dead In Vinland is suitable for players aged 16 and above.
Yes, Dead In Vinland is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Dead In Vinland is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
Minimum:
  • OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1
  • Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTS 450
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 1280x720 minimal screen resolution
Minimum:
  • OS: MacOS X 10.6
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GTS 450
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 1280x720 minimal screen resolution
61% of critics on Metacritic recommend Dead In Vinland. The Metascore is 74 out of 100.
Dead In Vinland was released on April 12, 2018
Yes, Dead In Vinland supports MacOS.
Yes, Dead In Vinland supports Linux.
Dead In Vinland is published by Ishtar Games
Dead In Vinland was developed by Ishtar Games
Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as Survival, RPG, Strategy, and Adventure
Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as Atmospheric, Difficult, Management, and Vikings
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as Survival
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as RPG
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Dead In Vinland as Strategy

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