Valhalla Hills

Valhalla Hills PC is a Viking city-building strategy game from Funatics Software, published by Daedalic Entertainment. Steam currently lists the computer version simply as Valhalla Hills, while Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition is associated with the later console release rather than a current PC rebrand. Its central challenge is clear: establish a working settlement, satisfy your Vikings, reach the portal at the top of a procedurally generated mountain, and overcome the guardians blocking the way.

Build upward through a living Viking settlement

Valhalla Hills uses a high-angle management perspective suited to placing buildings, reading terrain, and monitoring workers across compact mountain environments. The game is best described as an economic city builder with light real-time strategy and settlement-defense elements, rather than a conventional combat-focused RTS.

Each map begins with a small group of Vikings and a limited supply of materials. You establish a production chain by collecting wood and stone, manufacturing tools, constructing housing, and creating food sources such as fishing and hunting facilities. Workers generally transport goods automatically, so efficient settlement design depends on reducing wasted travel and keeping essential buildings close to the resources they use.

Your Vikings are not abstract counters. They need food, sleep, and social interaction, and their productivity suffers when their needs are poorly supported. Housing, workplaces, paths, storage, and food production therefore form one connected logistical problem. A settlement can contain the right buildings and still underperform if its workers spend too much time walking between them.

The portal is the real objective

Unlike many open-ended city builders, Valhalla Hills gives every map a concrete strategic destination. The main portal is located at the mountain summit, and reaching it requires more than simply expanding the settlement. You must first develop the economy far enough to support exploration, military preparation, and the supplies needed for the final encounter.

Portal areas may contain hostile creatures, including wolves, ghosts, mummies, lava crawlers, and ice giants. The exact opposition varies with the generated map and selected settings. Players can prepare soldiers and equipment for a direct confrontation, while some portal encounters also support a more peaceful solution through offerings.

This structure creates a useful rhythm: establish the economy, expand toward higher ground, then prepare for the portal. The settlement is not built only for visual growth. Every workshop, food source, tool, and soldier contributes to the attempt to move the Viking tribe closer to Valhalla.

Classic progression and custom map settings

The main progression experience is built around automatically generated levels rather than a fixed series of hand-designed cities. Classic Mode introduces the game gradually, unlocking additional buildings, mountain types, and enemies as you advance. It is the more approachable option for players learning the economy system.

Open Game provides a less restricted alternative, with the broader set of buildings and challenges available from the outset. It is better suited to experienced city-builder players who want to experiment with production chains instead of following a guided progression path.

Map generation can also be adjusted through options such as mountain configuration, enemy presence, and Viking Mode, which adds a tougher challenge. The result is a compact replay loop based on adapting the same underlying economy to different terrain layouts, resource positions, and threats.

Content, editions, and paid additions

The current Steam listing offers the base game separately and also sells the Two-Horned Helmet Edition. That bundle includes the base game, soundtrack, digital art book, wallpapers, development material, five in-game items, and a season pass covering two additional DLC packs.

The two named PC DLC packs are Sand of the Damned and Fire Mountains. Steam also lists the Two-Horned Helmet Edition Upgrade as a separate content item for owners of the standard game. The paid additions expand the available map themes and challenges rather than changing the fundamental settlement-management loop.

There is no free-to-play transition on the current Steam page. Valhalla Hills is presented as a paid single-player game with optional paid add-ons, and the store listing does not advertise a subscription, competitive service, or recurring live-service content model.

Who should play Valhalla Hills?

Valhalla Hills fits players who enjoy resource management, compact production chains, procedural maps, and city builders with a defined victory condition. It is especially suitable for fans of older economic strategy games who prefer watching a settlement function over directly controlling individual combat units.

The game also rewards players who like solving logistical problems. Finding a good place for a quarry is only the first step; you must then connect tools, workers, food, housing, and storage without allowing one missing resource to stall the entire settlement.

Players seeking deep diplomacy, large-scale warfare, unrestricted sandbox construction, or cooperative multiplayer should look elsewhere. The combat is subordinate to the economy, the maps are organized around reaching the portal, and the Steam version is officially presented as single-player only.

PC features and storefront details

The PC release includes Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. Steam metadata also identifies partial controller support, so keyboard and mouse remain the safer choice for detailed building placement, menu navigation, and economic management.

Steam lists full interface, audio, and subtitle support for English and German. Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese are listed with interface and subtitle localization, but not full audio.

The current PC storefront identity is therefore straightforward: search for Valhalla Hills on Steam, then choose between the standard game and the Two-Horned Helmet Edition. The console term Definitive Edition should not be treated as the current Steam product name.

Similar PC games

Players drawn to Valhalla Hills because of its connected workshops, settlers, and economic logistics may also enjoy classic economic RTS settlement building like The Settlers II: 10th Anniversary Gold Edition. The comparison is strongest in the way raw resources become tools, buildings, food, and military capacity through linked production steps.

For a more open-ended medieval settlement experience, organic medieval city building and production chains in Foundation offers greater freedom in town layout and a broader sandbox structure. It is less focused on a single summit objective, but shares Valhalla Hills' interest in worker movement, resource flow, and settlement efficiency.

Valhalla Hills occupies a narrower space than those games. Its procedural mountain maps, Viking needs, and portal-based objectives make each settlement a preparation exercise for a specific ascent rather than an attempt to develop one permanent capital.

Valhalla Hills FAQ

Is Valhalla Hills currently called Definitive Edition on PC?

No. The current Steam PC listing uses the name Valhalla Hills. Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition is the branding used for the later console edition, while the PC storefront presents the standard game and the Two-Horned Helmet Edition.

What kind of game is Valhalla Hills?

It is a single-player city-building strategy game focused on economic management, Viking settlement needs, procedural map generation, and limited combat around portals at the tops of mountains.

Does Valhalla Hills have multiplayer or co-op?

No. The Steam feature list identifies Valhalla Hills as single-player. It does not offer official online co-op, competitive multiplayer, or split-screen multiplayer.

What do you do in each Valhalla Hills map?

You gather resources, create tools, build and supply a settlement, care for your Vikings, recruit and equip soldiers when necessary, then reach and clear the portal guarding the route to the next mountain.

What is included in the Two-Horned Helmet Edition?

The bundle includes the base game, soundtrack, digital art book, wallpapers, development material, five special in-game items, and a season pass for the Sand of the Damned and Fire Mountains DLC packs.

Does Valhalla Hills support controllers on PC?

Steam metadata marks controller support as partial. Because the game relies on precise map interaction and settlement management, keyboard and mouse are the most dependable input method for the PC version.

Which languages are supported?

English and German include interface, subtitles, and full audio. Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese include interface and subtitle localization without full audio.