Fimbul is another average indie game. If you love the setting, and you have time and desire, then you can try it, but it's better to wait for a sale.
Fimbul2019
Fimbul
2019 Wild River Games56Mediocre
Playtime
ShortTypically 3 hours
Playable on
Available on
- $9.99
- $14.99
- $14.99
- $29.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- February 28, 2019
- Developer
- Zaxis Games
- Publisher
- Wild River Games
- Themes
Overview
Fimbul is a single-player comic-book, action adventure. Set in the final winter before Ragnarök, The Fimbul Winter. You play as an old berserk, travelling to Jötunheim to fulfill his destiny, battling Trolls and Jotuns to reclaim an ancient artifact that might, just might save Midgard.
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Reception
Press52
Players53
MediocreMediocre- Metacritic52from 9 reviews
- OpenCritic52from 12 reviews
Fimbul, at its core, is a mildly fun hack N slash title.
A basic action adventure game with a great style and a surprisingly engrossing story that is sadly backed up by repetitive gameplay that never evolves into something great.
Honestly? As excited as I was to get my hands on Fimbul as Norse mythology is a great one, and pretty hot right now between the Thor movies, The Iron Druid novels and the newest God of War, Fimbul, the winter before Ragnarok, will not be making its way to the halls of Valhalla. It really should have gone through much more testing and refinement because...
The end result is that Fimbul is a soulless experience that never amounts to much more than something that will forever represent the developer’s unrealized vision. Throwing the unpredictable bugs, glitches, and wayward problems that are present on Nintendo Switch into consideration, it’s hard to not come to the conclusion that you’d be better off simply...