The Social Aspect of Online Multiplayer Games
And for that purpose, I wouldn’t write it off just because of its microtransaction fast-track. The sprint of 4X in Northgard’s DNA means military conquest isn’t the only path to victory. Amass sufficient fame, wealth or knowledge and it will not matter how many offended Norsemen are at your gates. That gives multiplayer matches a dynamic that goes beyond the one-note destruction of other RTSeses, where the leading player tries to distract everybody from their imminent victory.
There are lots of multiplayer Pictionary-style browser video games out there which obtain the basic premise of drawing prompts and guessing them. Skribbl.io…