Survival action RPG · Vinland in the age of the Viking explorers
Vinland Tales: Viking Survival
Craft, fight, build a colony.
Vinland Tales: Viking Survival is a free-to-play survival RPG for iPhone and Android about the Norse voyages to North America: you lead a Viking clan to build a colony in unknown lands, craft weapons, raid rival strongholds and survive the dark winter.
Vinland Tales is a survival action RPG with casual sandbox mechanics and big village-building ambitions. Your crew has reached unknown lands in the age of the Viking explorers. Set up the first camp, build a Norse colony, and make a home for the rescued clansmen who turn up to settle as workers.
This is survival without the hunger games: a replenishable health pool means every session starts with exploration rather than staying alive. Chop every tree, hunt, mine stone and copper, craft clubs, swords, bows and spears, embellish them with gems, and take on the armies of the Ragnarok, bandit bosses and the strongholds of other survivors. Unravel the story of Leif Eriksson and raise worship sites for Thor and Odin.
What you do
- Survival made casual: no hunger meter, a health pool that replenishes
- Build a Viking colony and manage the clansmen who work it
- Craft and upgrade weapons, embellish them with gems and their attributes
- Raid the strongholds of other survivor players
- Seasons with real teeth: prepare for the dark, frosty winter
- Released
- 20 Nov 2024
- Platforms
- iOS · Android
- Downloads
- 100K+ on Google Play
- Languages
- 16
- Version
- 1.3.3 · 24 Aug 2026
- Price
- Free to play, with optional purchases
- Site
- vinlandtales.com
- Publisher
- Colossi Games Ltd
The setting
The Norse in Vinland
Around the year 1000, Norse sailors from the settlements in Greenland reached the coast of North America. Two Icelandic sagas, the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red, tell of Leif Erikson landing in a country he called Vinland, and of later attempts to settle there.
Archaeology bears the sagas out. L'Anse aux Meadows, on the northern tip of Newfoundland, is a Norse site, and a 2021 study dated wood cut there with metal tools to the year 1021. The settlement did not last.
Vinland Tales imagines the colony that might have been: a clan building a village in an unknown land and holding out through the winter. The voyages are real; the colony is historical fantasy.
Screenshots
In the game.
Gameplay · plays from YouTube after you press play, no cookies before that.
Trailer
Gameplay.
Updates
What changed, and when.
Content updates as announced on the stores. Hotfixes are folded into the update they belong to.
- 1.3.0
Update 1.3
- New Arena: fight through waves 1–120, open Treasure Chests, and spend a new Arena currency at its Workshop.
- Jewelry: craft Rings & Amulets at the Jeweler's Workbench for permanent stat bonuses and no durability.
- Villager Gear: a new stats system plus Hats, Bracelets & Rings to make your helpers stronger.
- Winter & Rations reworked: frostbite builds up gradually, a longer prep phase, and Food scales with your settlement.
patch 1.3.3Source: App Store - 1.2.0
Update 1.2
- Burial Chambers: First Floor is now opened!
- Skaldholt - new safe hub & permanent training spot.
- Battle Pass with seasonal rewards.
- Economy rebalance, cost reductions & visual polish.
patches 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3Source: App Store - 1.1.2
Update 1.1
- New Settlement Raids.
- New Locations: Oreheart Plateau and Frostpine Vale
- Expanded Merchant's Stop
- New Recipes, Buildings, Enemies, and Resources
- Various Fixes and Improvements
patches 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.7, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.11.12Source: App Store - 1.0.4
Update 1.0
- Vinland Tales: Viking Survival Release!
- Explore the new world!
- Forge your clan and find new settlers to join.
- Craft gear and tools to survive cold winters.
patches 1.0.5, 1.0.6Source: App Store
Community
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