Viking Saga 3 has a few good ideas left in it, but the level design feels too tired, repetitive, and vexing to enjoy any of them.

Repetition is a large part of time/resource managers, but good games can make it feel like a fun challenge instead of pure tediousness. Viking Saga III: Epic Adventure is not such a good game.

The core is the same as in the previous Viking Sagas: we build houses for rental income, which we then spend on building production buildings so we can gradually clear the map of all obstacles.
For the most part, the balance in resources is great; with some planning, we will never really lack any of them. Additionally, their flow is constant enough to keep the stages going without any downtime.

The problem is that what we do is not fun. The longer we play, the more tiresome gimmicks appear, which force us to repeat the same sub-tasks constantly. All of this is there to mask the weakening level design—it is as if the developers completely ran out of ideas, so they reused and significantly toned up some cheap tricks to hide the game’s shortcomings with even worse decisions.

I wish there were any redeeming features here, but beyond the solid gameplay basics, the finale of the Viking Saga does nothing but disappoints.

Easier than the previous games in the series, which makes it less frustrating, but also less interesting. The level design is generally good; some levels drag a bit, and the paths through tunnels could be more clearly marked, but I like the amount of freedom you have in what to build where.

Widescreen is implemented awkwardly; if you click past the boundaries of where a 4:3 monitor would cut off, the edges of the screen flash red and a "locked" notification pops up. It's ugly, and it's hard to tell at a glance which trees are inside the boundary and clickable and which are not without hovering your mouse over everything. A minor annoyance, although I do appreciate that the developers wanted to make sure the game didn't break on non-widescreen monitors.

Anyway, this is a solid time management game, if not a particularly memorable one, and fans of the genre should enjoy it.

Cool and fun entertaining game.
Theres about 40 levels to play.
They last 10-20min each approximately if you know how to play them.
They are quite simple and intuitive :)

It's one of the worst Time management game i have ever played. The story is hollow and about half levels are based on mist and campfire to light again and again... It's so boring !

The weakest of the three, but still ok.

love this game, just wish it would go on forever lol

Great game for everyday relax. But too short.

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An oldie but a goodie.

The game does not strive far from your regular time-management games of similr making.
What is unique, though, is the considerable challenge involved in acquiring three stars on every level. Beating the game with all honours will take a lot of puzzling for the right build sequence.
As a bonus, the victory animations and facial expressions during the story bits are comically silly. In a regular dialogue Ingold already looks like he just walked in on his mom and the village elder.