Northgard is a Viking-themed strategy game blending city-building with real-time combat, tasking players with settling a newly discovered continent and guiding their clan to dominance. Resource management, exploration, and diplomacy all factor into a clan's survival and growth.

Players expand their settlement, manage the changing seasons, and battle rival clans and mythological threats as they push toward one of several victory conditions. It's aimed at fans of strategy games blending economic development with tactical combat.