Viking Brothers 5:

In Brief:
The Viking Brothers are again in the midst of saving Midgard! This is the fifth of six versions of the game and is a decent and very playable strategy and resource focused time management game.

You can see some videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE &HERE & via the Steam store page HERE.

You can also see several short reviews posted by the Steam community HERE and more short reviews by the Big Fish (BF) community at the bottom of the BF store page HERE

Introduction:
The Viking Brothers face their greatest challenge yet in an epic journey to save Midgard! The evil Nidhogg and an army of dragons want to destroy the world of humans, so they attacked a giant serpent that holds Midgard together with its long body. The stakes have never been higher – or bigger – as Everand and Boromir travel around the world to help the serpent and save their home.
Magic abounds in the land of Midgard and will help you succeed in your quest to aid the Viking Brothers. You'll use special altars to give your heroes new skills, interact with enchanted beings to acquire resources and travel to mesmerizing worlds, including the underwater realm of Atlantis. You'll also battle bizarre creatures and spirits and enlist the help of the gods of legend!

Along the way, you'll guide a crew of workers as they employ their skills in farming, digging for gold and acquiring other valuable resources. The faster they work, the greater your rewards will be, so you'll need to plan their steps carefully and work strategically to beat the clock! Making clever use of a variety of bonuses will help.

Reference accessed HERE by Qimaron (a TM game developer); re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk on 17th July 2021.

The Game:
Viking Brothers 5 sees the return of Everand and Boromir, two brothers and heroes from Midgard, the realm of man who have faced relentless challenges through 4 previous and extremely well-done time management games.

Viking Brothers 5 sets the scene where the previous game left off as our two heroes settle down for a well-deserved respite from the harrowing dangers they’ve faced. However, their peaceful sojourn is short-lived. Some time in the night, the earth shook, and a dark shadow crossed the land, leaving the morning hours to reveal a land that was once lush with summer life, yellowed and dying.

Now, the brothers must journey to Asgard to seek the aid of the gods once more if they are to discover and defeat this new evil that threatens their land. Join them through countless levels of fast paced resource management game play and see if you have what it takes to save Midgard.

Viking Brothers 5 can be played in 3 difficulty levels: Casual, Normal, and Expert. Casual mode is played with no time limits so even players who aren’t interested in beating the clock can enjoy playing. Normal mode is your standard run of the mill time limits and Expert, of course, takes things to a whole other level with shortened time limits.

The graphics of Viking Brothers 5 is above and beyond what you’d normally find in a time management game, as each resource and character seems to be crafted in loving detail. The title screen itself was mesmerizing and beautiful with a little added feature of movement as you moved the mouse. I admit, I was distracted for a few minutes just moving the Wyvern and Viking Brothers around on my screen.

Gameplay is, as usual, excellent, although my one tiny complaint is that you can’t assign tasks to collect a resource if the way is blocked. Even if you’ve already assigned a worker to remove the blocking resource or obstacle. You have to wait until the item is removed before you can tell your workers to get the next item. It’s not a huge deal, but it does slow down my tasking thoughts a bit and my plan to conquer the level stutters a bit as I have to wait for certain things to happen first.

Viking Brothers 5 is only available in a standard edition… no collector’s edition, so there are no added goodies like bonus levels or an integrated Viking Brothers 5 Walkthrough in the game.

If you’d like to play Viking Brothers 5 for free to test drive this latest addition to the popular franchise, you can click on the install button above and play the game free for 60 minutes. That’s plenty of time to get through the first few levels and get a feel for the amazing gameplay.

Reference accessed HERE; originally posted on 28th Nov 2018 by casual game guides who gave it a 5 star rating and a three star unique rating. Reposted by Whiterabbit-uk on 17th July 2021.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found three hits from the antimalware engines BitDefender Theta, Jiangmin & VBA32. These are almost certainly false positves and result from the low level adware included with most free game sites downloads, that opens your browser to TooMky Games home page when you first install the game . The giveaway version has had most of the adware usually associated with free game sites removed.
The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to TooMky Games home page after the game has installed it may install extra shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed).
The installation

does not

inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to TooMky Games home page after the game has been installed, it earns TooMky Games a little money, which is split with the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away for free. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c4bdda3be666b4f74028793319a8b0e9c343a5eca88994592184df9ed0c8d202/detection