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Landnama
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“It's a small repetitive game which I really enjoy. It doesn't have much going on but if you like this kind of games were you try to test yourself to complete it faster or score higher (or getting all the achievements) then this is a good game for you.”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“Very nice game. Has more to chess or mine sweeper then it has to base building.”
— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played“The big thing to me is that it seems to punish cleverness and/or efficiency, the difficulty of each winter is based on the amount of resources your colony can produce, meaning you are punished for quickly ramping up production but rewarded for keeping it artificially low. It's…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
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v2.3.2 Icelandic, Traditional Chinese and more!
Hi everyone! We're releasing a small update, together with two new languages! And not just any language... the game is now available in Icelandic thanks to our friends from Nörd Norðursins! ❤️ Changel
v2.3.1 Changelog
Fixed Fixed an exploit where you could unlock infinite perk stacks Fixed an exploit where you could gain unlimited mastery points Fixed upgrade progress not appearing on home tile when triggering the
Content Update 2.3 Out Now
Hi everyone, today we're excited to release a new content update for the game and a few other changes! In this patch, we introduce a new game mode called the "Weekly Gauntlet". This mode has been teas
v2.3 Beta Branch Available
Hi everyone! We've just opened a beta branch for Landnama's v2.3 content update which brings a brand new game mode with alternate win conditions: the Weekly Gauntlet! It is available for play testing
Content Update 2.2 Out Now
Hi everyone! Our next free content update is now live and brings balancing changes, some visual improvements, quality of life features, two new clans to unlock, new daily trial modifiers and a new dif
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Rogue-lite · Survival · Puzzle · City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building · Hex Grid · Historical · Exploration · Vikings · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Icelandic |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Support for OpenGL 3.1 Storage: 250 MB available space