Play the ancient game of "Hnefatafl" in style on your PC, in Singleplayer mode against the AI or Multiplayer over the internet. "Hnefatafl" is a strategic, chess-like boardgame with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era. Put on your viking helmet, grab a horn of honeymead and get ready to crush your opponent in a mighty clash of wits and skill.
| App ID | 1133070 |
|---|---|
| App type | Game |
| Developer | Diamond Sky Games |
| Publisher | Rain Games |
| Homepage | https://www.vikingchessgame.com/ |
| Release date | 2020-03-05 17:59 UTC |
| Release state | released |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/1133070 |
| Last store refresh | 5 hours ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
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| 0 | Viking Chess Hnefatafl.exe | windows | ||
| 1 | Contents\MacOS\Viking Chess Hnefatafl | macos |
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| 2026-09-11 21:50 UTC | $4.99 | $4.99 |
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| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 4759016 | 2020-03-09 18:39 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 1133071 | windows | 400.89 MB | 141.77 MB | 5339808891547193273 | ||
| 1133072 | macos | 424.96 MB | 153.84 MB | 2717073920303329983 |
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Starting today, we at Rain Games will celebrate ten years as a company! In those years, we have made several games that you fans have made a hit! To celebrate this, we will have a week with an all-out sale on our games on Steam! Enjoy Viking Chess:Hnefatafl with 25% off For a starter, enjoy this brand new anniversary video for our games on PC! Join the celebration! 🎊🎊
Dear players, I've been quite busy the last few months. Reason is, i've been building a Kickstarter campaign for a new videogame, "Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35640970/5bd2963acfad96c125ef65adea3d2ee51092b25c.jpg For "Viking Chess: Hnefatafl", i've been working behind the scenes with upgrading backend, making it easier to further develop the game. While I can't set a date for a new content update just yet, just know that it's in the works. We've also tested the game on mobile platforms, and with some tweaks and adjustments, I'm hoping to get a release out
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35640970/71c1d09bdb7fbc06c57f30ec5b468923a88f0938.png From today 10 AM Pacific Time until 18th April you can grab a copy of Viking Chess: Hnefatafl for 25% off on Steam! Play this two player board-game on your PC or Mac with your family or friends over the Easter holidays with local multiplayer, or online play. You can also play single-player against the AI. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35640970/5606000ce0e0584254e0aa267eed746c753fb584.jpg Viking Chess: Hnefatafl is a strategic board-game with assumed origins all the way back to the Viking era, using the popular ruleset for Hnefatafl;
* Fixed an issue where boardpieces could be untextured when loading a saved game * Fixed an issue with music audio dropping out ** If you have a technical issue with music audio dropping out, please tell us at our Steam forum or at our Discord. Thanks!
Viking Chess: Hnefatafl releases out of Early Access this evening at approximately 19:00 CET! Please join us this evening for online games. We are gathering a little crew of friends and developers to drink a few horns of mead and play the game with you! We want to thank all players during Early Access, for your contribution to making Viking Chess a better game. As a homage to all players that helped out the development of this game, we have implemented an unlockable title in your honor; "Shaman". Win the title ingame by "finding the secret bug"! Among the many fixes and improvements this updat
Hello Early Access players! Patch notes: - Added "Restart Game" button to Ingame menu in Singleplayer & Local Hotseat Multiplayer. - Added "Concede Game" button to Ingame menu in Multiplayer(online). You can now concede a game, meaning that you admit defeat to your opponent and the game ends. - Fixed default input keys for camera movement, that was set incorrectly last game update, and snuck itself into the update. - Fixed an issue in Tutorial, where the new Input system did not work to move the camera. - Fixed an issue in Tutorial, where "Exit to main menu" button did not work. - Added functi
Hello Early Access players! Here's a new content update with a host of new unlockable titles available for you to win, and some fixes and improvements! Viking Chess: Hnefatafl releases out of Early Access soon! Tell your friends. ** Note ** - Your progression and unlocks will be wiped when the game leaves Early Access, but we'll give Early Access players an extra treat with an unique unlockable title that only players in Early Access will recieve - New unlockable titles: Note! Unlockable titles are not available to be unlocked in the Tutorial or in a local hotseat multiplayer game. - "Raider":
Hello Early Access players! Patch Notes: - Resolved an issue where an actor could be captured incorrectly. - The defeated players' pieces now "die" when a Win Condition is triggered. - Achievement unlocked message in game UI when you unlock an unlockable or win an achievement. - Fixed an issue in your game Statistics, where some values could be updated incorrectly. - Fixed mouse Cursor to display in correct size on MacOS All the best! - Kenny G
Hello Early Access players! We start the new year by resolving some important issues and bugs. Thank you to community members that sent descriptive bug and issue reports on our Steam forum! If you have an issue with the game or believe you've found a bug, please head on over to our Steam forum at our bug report forum or pop by our Discord. Patch notes: - Important: Resolved an issue where the King could be incorrectly captured in a Shieldwall. Note to players: The King cannot be captured in a Shieldwall in the Copenhagen ruleset of Hnefatafl. - Important: Resolved an issue where an Edge Fort w
Hello Early Access players on Mac OS! Content update 0.11 EA with new features are now available for you as well. Please refer to previous patch notes for new features. All the best! - Kenny G
Hello Early Access players! Here's a present for the holiday season, a new content update with new features, also features requested by the community. Note! MacOS players will recieve this update during the holiday TL/DR patch notes: - Local hotseat multiplayer. Now you can play on one machine against another human player! - Game statistics. Check your number of wins, losses etc - Unlockables. You can adorn your player name with a prefix title to show off your progression and skill to other players. - Better AI on Hard and Nightmare difficulty. Easy and Medium will stay at their approximate di
Hello everyone! So, just like Andy Williams sings; "It's the most wonderful time of the year", and on that note I thought it would be fun to give you all a little look behind the scenes of the development of Viking Chess: Hnefatafl. Viking Chess has been in Early Access since the release on the 16th of October, and since then we have released around 10 updates, big and small. I think the game has improved much over these updates, and I believe we will have a very nice little game by the end of Early Access. I believe that a few more updates are in order to release the game out of Early Access
Hello Early Access players! Here's some news on an upcoming content update. First off all, we apologize for some delay since the last update. We've had some stressfull weeks where we've done work on other projects to put food on our plates. We're preparing a more meaty content update for you, that needs a little bit more time in the oven to cook just right. Here's a few of the upcoming features in Content Patch 0.11 EA: Better AI. More finetuned behaviors, and in general a more difficult AI at higher difficulty levels. Bookkeeping. Recorded game statistics that you can view in your profile to
Hello Early Access players! Here's a little update for you. 2D topdown view mode now displays piece sprites in black, white and a King-ly blue instead of the 3D models top down. Many players requested a simpler view in 2D. Fixed Multiplayer Game Lobby UI for different aspect ratios. Added "Edit Profile" button in the Start Menu. Many smaller bugfixes
Hello Early Access players, here's a new content patch for you! Note! The patch is available on Windows now, Mac OS players will recieve the patch tomorrow 04.11. Content: - Singleplayer game setup in Start Menu have been reworked to be more in line with the rest of the game's UI. - Players can now select difficulty levels when playing Singleplayer versus AI! -- Difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard, Nightmare. - Tweaks and updates to each AI difficulty level. Still a work in progress, but we're getting there! - Overhauled many aspects of the user interface. -- Most importantly, all UI screens
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