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Northern Journey
A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Best drive by purchase I have ever made. This game really got me through the toughest part of my life. Its a weird, fun, goofy, psychedelic, horror, atmospheric game and the music/landscapes in this game just takes you somewhere else. A very 420 friendly game tbh. A note to the…”
— a player, Steam review · 237 hrs played“Beautiful masterpiece that stands out from all the atmospheric boomershooters. Made by someone who goes outside and you can tell.”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“It's like Half-Life, but instead of Xen you were teleported to Scandinavia.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:22 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Update for last update + small issues fixes
With many new players after the Mandalorian review, the amount of issues discovered also scale. (Although the issues are happily of the more innocent kind) The fps-system for the last update was quick
Tweaks aimed towards high fps issues
People are getting better gpu's over time, so very high fps are starting to create some issues. I've decided to still keep the framerate free by default. But the game then has no fps-breakes, other th
A few tweaks and fixes
The bow now buffers the shoot-mouseclick, so if you shoot just before reload is finished, the shot will be executed. The return-sign from Drowned veins had the old stand-in name 'Riverhill'. Has been
A little amendement to recent update. Slingtweak!
The sling has been altered a bit. Now it will automatically reload after a throw, and start swinging again. If you want to lower it, just rightclick mouse, and it will be lowered after reload. This wa
Accumulated tweaks!
The flying witch in Sourwood has reduced some health, and the plank labyrinth have become wider and without un-neccesary gaps. Too many people felt frustrated about falling into the water. The witch i
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Atmospheric · FPS · Fantasy · Retro · Action-Adventure · Exploration · Singleplayer · Adventure · Nature · First-Person · Medieval · Horror (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64) Processor: 2.4 Ghz Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: GT 640 Storage: 7 GB available space Sound Card: Stereo Additional Notes: Game highly optimized. Will run fine even on older hardware.