# Bad North: Jotunn Edition

> Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.

## Game facts

- Developer: Plausible Concept, Oskar Stålberg
- Publisher: Raw Fury
- Release status: Released
- Release date: Nov 17, 2018
- Region for this schedule: GLOBAL
- Platforms: PC, MOBILE, Nintendo, and PlayStation
- Genres: Simulation, Action, Strategy, casual, Wargame, RealTimeTactics, Defense
- Steam Deck: Verified (Steam, checked Nov 4, 2026: https://store.steampowered.com/app/688420/)
- Playtime: Main + some extras 9 hr, 100% completion 15 hr (IGDB, checked Nov 4, 2026: https://www.igdb.com/games/bad-north)
- Languages: Interface: Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Korean (South Korea), Turkish (Türkiye), American English, German (Germany), European Spanish, French (France), Italian (Italy), Russian (Russia), Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese (Japan), Dutch (Netherlands), European Portuguese (IGDB, checked Nov 4, 2026: https://www.igdb.com/games/bad-north)

## AI Review Analysis

Analyzed Sep 1, 2026

### Strengths

- Provides deep real-time tactical gameplay through simple rules and intuitive controls
- Strategic decision-making involving terrain, class matchups, items, and enemy compositions, combined with high difficulty
- Tension created by randomly generated islands and enemy placements, permadeath, and autosaving

### Weaknesses

- Serious stability problems, including crashes during progress, freezes while loading, and repeated crashes after certain sections
- Cases of save data being reset or corrupted, resulting in lost progress
- Weak motivation for replaying due to a lack of new units, maps, and modes after clearing the game

## Links

- [Bad North: Jotunn Edition on WAME](https://www.wame.is/game/5958)
- [Player reviews](https://www.wame.is/game/5958/reviews)

Updated: 2026-11-10T07:41:01.097Z