Die Wikinger Saga

About this board game

Die Wikinger Saga is a deck-building game for 2–4 players that takes about 90 minutes to play. As Viking jarls, players lead their villages on an adventurous journey through the nine worlds of Yggdrasil, hoping to earn enough glory to reach the halls of Asgard.

The game begins with a small group of mostly inexperienced villagers. Across land and sea, players use their Viking cards to move figures along the journey shown on adventure cards. They collect gold, gain glory as victory points, confront dangerous opponents, seek the help of the gods, and try to escape overwhelming dangers without damage.

• Explore mythical worlds including Midgard and Jötunheim.
• Recruit Vikings with increasingly useful skills using collected gold.
• Choose eight adventures from a selection of 35 different adventures.
• Send brave Vikings to Walhalla, creating a second deck for the finale.

Die Wikinger Saga has a modular structure supported by a tutorial, allowing new and more demanding rules to be introduced gradually. Players choose adventures from three of the nine Viking worlds, and each world offers different Vikings, skills, and special rules. These choices can influence the game’s difficulty and duration while shaping the journey through Norse mythology.

Every adventure reveals more about the legends, mysterious places, and mythical characters of the Viking world, brought to life through atmospheric illustrations by Michael Menzel. After eight rounds, the surviving legends and the Vikings in Walhalla can prove decisive during the final adventure at the rainbow bridge Bifröst, where victory points and carefully built decks may determine which jarl earns the greatest glory.