Danish developer Zaxis and Munich-based publisher EuroVideo have announced that Fimbul will be making its way to Nintendo Switch later this year.
Fimbul is a single-player comic book-style action adventure set in the final winter before Ragnarök, The Fimbul Winter. You play as an old berserker, Kveldulver, travelling through the frozen Midgard to battle Trolls and Jotuns in a quest to reclaim an ancient artefact that might just save the world.
The game's non-linear story is heavily influenced by the player’s actions, and thanks to an autosave feature called “The Thread of Life”, players will be able to come back to crucial moments in the story to explore alternative branches at any moment. Its combat system will ask you to get to grips with a wide variety of weaponry, matching up your arsenal with an array of different enemies in a range of diverse environments. Players will have to use their Vikings’ individual skills and different items to survive against enemy warriors and dangerous creatures like hungry wolves, monsters, and the giant Jotun.
No exact release date or pricing has been confirmed just yet, but Fimbul is expected to launch on Switch in November this year.
Do you like the look of this one? Let us know if you'll be keeping an eye out for more info as we get nearer to the game's release with a comment below.
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Boy, this sounds interesting.
I hope this is a sight for Thor eyes, and not a load of Baldur-dash.
Hadn't heard of this at all. And they got money from the Danish Film Institute's game fund? Good on them! This sounds really cool.
It looks nice and the description sounds very good.
Being able to go back to critical parts of the game to play the butterfly effect (or probably warhammer effect in that case) os really good, especially if you want to fully enjoy your first playthrough.
I'd appreciate if NL would stop making me want to buy every single game month before their release.
@Giygas_95 My eyes are bleeding now.
@nintey_cola Well you didn't have to read my Frigg-in comment. Don't Magni-fy the issue or I'll Modi-fy my comment.
After God of War - I'll buy just about anything based on Norse mythology.
I tried to join the Steam BETA... it has actual gameplay video on the Steam page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/771690/Fimbul/
Great games for Switch seem to just come out of the blue anymore. That makes me happy.
Don't know about the look because the trailer doesn't show much, but the action-adventure genre is quite lacking on the Switch so any addition is welcome.
This sounds fantastic. I like the save idea however I also think that the action effecting storyline means that for me I would try hard to resist going back and instead use it as an excuse to play through again and see how my mood changes how things play out. All in all I love the look of this and gameplay sounds great.
@Giygas_95 Well, only time will tell. Of course, they could have come out all guns blazing, and giving away all the info all at once, but I guess they decided to keep this first impression relatively Loki...
@ThanosReXXX Ah I missed that one. Even though I've made that very joke before!
@Giygas_95 Ah, happens to the best of us...
And you're welcome.
@ThanosReXXX I really Fimbul-ed that one!
@Giygas_95 Man, I spent the last 1,5 hours Buri-ing myself in this site: http://thenorsegods.com/, trying to find another snappy reply, but all I could come up with, was this one...
@ThanosReXXX Freyr enough man, you already had a few good ones.
What is with the viking games on the Switch? Theres like ten of them now, maybe more, Haha.
You don't just walk into Fimbulventr, love.
Looks promising!
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