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Viking Chess: Hnefatafl cover art

Viking Chess: Hnefatafl

Diamond Sky Games · Rain Games · 2020-03-05

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 05, 2020 (Mac), Mar 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

90%
positive of 67 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 39,227 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 67 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.77 at Fanatical (2026-09-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

ChessIndieStrategyBoard GameHistoricalMultiplayerEarly AccessReplay ValueSingleplayerTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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