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- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- 2015
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- Deck Playable
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- Released: 2013
- Developer: Crazy Viking Studios
- Price: $9.99checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 83% of 1,036 reviews
- Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure
- Metacritic 76
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Boss fights are fair and rewarding
- Infinite lives reduce frustration
- Learning enemy patterns feels like skill growth
- Challenging
- Dark
- Grim
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Why this: Also Side Scroller and Gore, like Volgarr the Viking.
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Why this: Same retro mood as Volgarr the Viking.
About Volgarr the Viking
The closest matches to Volgarr the Viking: Odallus: The Dark Call, Tiny Thor, Slain: Back from Hell, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, and Valfaris. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Volgarr the Viking is your kind of game, the closest matches are Odallus: The Dark Call, Tiny Thor and Slain: Back from Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, dark and grim, and single out its armor progression and boss walkbacks. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Volgarr the Viking is a retro action-platformer from Crazy Viking Studios, released in 2013. It channels golden-age arcade platformers with precise controls, demanding level design, and combat that rewards memorizing enemy patterns and layouts, softened by infinite lives and checkpoint-based progression. It carries a Metacritic score of 76, runs 83% positive of 1,036 Steam reviews, and is Playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe a challenging, grim, retro experience and credit the boss fights that feel fair and rewarding, the way learning enemy patterns feels like genuine skill growth, and the tight, satisfying controls. Priced at $9.99 and falling under action and indie, it pairs armor progression with permanent upgrades. The brutal, NES-inspired design defines what the data covers here.
About Volgarr the Viking: Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
Is Volgarr the Viking worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 83% of 1,036 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $9.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 7 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Boss fights are fair and rewarding
- Infinite lives reduce frustration
- Learning enemy patterns feels like skill growth
- Permanent upgrades make progression meaningful
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“It's just okay, the main issue is the lack of mid level checkpoints. The platforming elements aren't that bad, but they can be tricky and require practice on how to approach them. The problem is having to constantly repeat the level from…”
“The game acts like its a throw back side scroller, but its not. There's a way the devs want you to tackle every single encounter and a 100% wrong one, which makes it an trail and error platfromer. You need to memorize every single…”
People who play it also play: Odallus: The Dark Call, Tiny Thor, Slain: Back from Hell
Frequently asked about Volgarr the Viking
Can I run it?
Does Volgarr the Viking run on Steam Deck?
Volgarr the Viking is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Volgarr the Viking cost?
Volgarr the Viking is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Volgarr the Viking?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Volgarr the Viking are Odallus: The Dark Call, Tiny Thor, Slain: Back from Hell.
Who developed Volgarr the Viking?
Volgarr the Viking was developed by Crazy Viking Studios.