Sharp Galapagos Mobile review

WinterForts doesn’t do anything that renders its cribbed script any less addictive, albeit in a kind of grinding way. It’s still satisfying to watch a headquarters expand as enemies fail to breach its walls. Later on, players can even pledge allegiance under one of several banners for added support. Meanwhile, the real-time strategy battles feature some clever tactical objectives like drawing opponents out into the open making them easier to slaughter. As players make their way through a foe’s base, they’ll open up new entrances for remaining units to pass through. It’s a trick as useful as it is sneaky, especially during the full-on boss encounters. But as for the game’s Vikings look, while it is a semi-unique aesthetic, the artwork just feels like a passable skin trying in vain to give the game an actual identity.

It’s not that WinterForts: Exiled Kingdom does anything flagrantly wrong, it just does so very little that we haven’t seen again and again. A winter setting is no excuse not to have creative fire.

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