About the Game
Position and relocate your troops to fend off the Vikings, who each have their own counters to the threats you pose. Pick your battles and plan your evacuations carefully! Lose a commander and they’re gone forever; lose everything, and it’s game over!
You command the broad strokes of your defenses and monitor positioning — your soldiers do the rest, navigating and engaging intuitively in response to the situation at hand.
Each island is both stylistically charming and unique in its layout. Plan your strategies around every nook and cranny, for you only get one chance to save them from the enemy invasion.
A stronger, smarter defense leads to greater rewards. Use these to develop your subjects from a ragtag militia into seasoned warriors.
Your home is under attack. The king is dead at the hands of Viking invaders. Hope is a distant glimmer in the fog, fading fast with every passing moment. As you rise to take your father’s place as ruler, it will fall to you to stage your defenses. But make no mistake – this is no fight for victory, but a desperate grasp for survival.
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island. Everything is at stake: fail, and watch the blood of your subjects stain the ground red.
It’s charmingly brutal, with beautiful procedurally-generated islands and adorable soldiers juxtaposed against the blood-stained realities of war. You control the broad strokes of the battle, giving high level commands to your soldiers who try their best to carry them out in the heat of the moment. It’s accessibly deep, with simple player inputs masking a dynamic combat simulation that make it inviting to new players while challenging veterans.
Keep fighting, warriors. Not for power or riches or glory, but for hope of peace to come once again in the harsh lands of the Bad North.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 14637231
Up to date
Build 10531946
Feb 11, 2023
Rolling back the update from yesterday that caused the "failed to load save 'user'" error message.
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Build 3473524
Jan 23, 2019
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1.07 is a smaller patch which is predominantly for a Unity Engine upgrade that improves stability, along with a number of bug fixes (including fixing some issues that were introduced in Patch 1.06).
Bug Fixes
- Fix for Game crashing on Windows systems with Citrix, or other virtual display drivers
- Fix for reduced total campaign gold (introduced by 1.06)
- Fix for viking brute archers having too much stun damage (introduced in 1.06)
- Fix for Game Over being triggered if the final level is the only level left
- Fix for blurry fatigue icon in loadout screen
- Fix for gamepad movement pointer disappearing if rapidly reselecting units
- Fix for certain enemies occasionally teleporting off of their ships when disembarking
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1.07 is a smaller patch which is predominantly for a Unity Engine upgrade that improves stability, along with a number of bug fixes (including fixing some issues that were introduced in Patch 1.06).
Patch Notes
Bug Fixes
- Fix for Game crashing on Windows systems with Citrix, or other virtual display drivers
- Fix for reduced total campaign gold (introduced by 1.06)
- Fix for viking brute archers having too much stun damage (introduced in 1.06)
- Fix for Game Over being triggered if the final level is the only level left
- Fix for blurry fatigue icon in loadout screen
- Fix for gamepad movement pointer disappearing if rapidly reselecting units
- Fix for certain enemies occasionally teleporting off of their ships when disembarking
Build 3412661
Dec 19, 2018
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New Features
- Added Easy Difficulty mode
- Added Controller layout cheatsheets
- Loadout / Deployment order is retained from turn to turn
- Game will detect if you trap yourself on the campaign map and trigger a game over
Bug Fixes
- Plunge can now drop from a height of 2 at upgrade level 1 and 2
- Slight buff to archers
- Replenish can begin before all units make it to the house, if some are delayed
- Fixes progression blocker if commander is stunlocked
- Early game enemy types appear a little sooner
- Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely
- Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog
- Improved some framerate spikes due to garbage collection
- Fixed a very rare crash related to navigation
- Corrected the %age completion on Game Over, so it’s more accurate and doesn’t show 100% if you lose the final level
- Popups can be closed with the back button
- Fixed issue where hover effects on soldiers stick when pausing / winning the level
- Fixed issue where full squads could be sent to replenish
- Possible fix for occasional soft-lock in the campaign map
- Fixed a bug where clicking commander portraits in the map screen would result in incorrect audio
- Fixed one issue that could cause an infinite loading screen on new Campaign
- Possible fix for game sometimes hanging at start
- Fix for archers sometimes shooting through cave walls
- Fixed issues where units would occasionally stick on each other (introduced in 1.04)
- Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stunlocked on their way there
- Fix for squads occasionally forgetting to follow their commander back out of a house
- Improved handling of corrupted campaign save files
- Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses
- Cycling through squads will show godrays, indicating the selected squad
- Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives
- Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible
- Campaign Map updated with new visuals / animations / workflows
- Various aesthetic improvements to the islands
- Added several new island pieces to the island generator
- Pathways between levels on islands are more visible
- New fire effects
- Various additional UI / flow tweaks
- Squads will now exit the house and pretend they were helping, if they were replenishing when the battle was won
- Corpses get highlighted like grass
- Flee will popup an icon once the ship is considered fully fled (50% to the fog)
- Added sparklier snow ❄️
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Patch Notes
New Features
- Added Easy Difficulty mode
- Added Controller layout cheatsheets
- Loadout / Deployment order is retained from turn to turn
- Game will detect if you trap yourself on the campaign map and trigger a game over
Bug Fixes
- Plunge can now drop from a height of 2 at upgrade level 1 and 2
- Slight buff to archers
- Replenish can begin before all units make it to the house, if some are delayed
- Fixes progression blocker if commander is stunlocked
- Early game enemy types appear a little sooner
- Improved Island Generation so failures are less likely
- Should reduce the chance of having islands stuck under the fog
- Improved some framerate spikes due to garbage collection
- Fixed a very rare crash related to navigation
- Corrected the %age completion on Game Over, so it’s more accurate and doesn’t show 100% if you lose the final level
- Popups can be closed with the back button
- Fixed issue where hover effects on soldiers stick when pausing / winning the level
- Fixed issue where full squads could be sent to replenish
- Possible fix for occasional soft-lock in the campaign map
- Fixed a bug where clicking commander portraits in the map screen would result in incorrect audio
- Fixed one issue that could cause an infinite loading screen on new Campaign
- Possible fix for game sometimes hanging at start
- Fix for archers sometimes shooting through cave walls
- Fixed issues where units would occasionally stick on each other (introduced in 1.04)
- Fix for potential progression blocker if some soldiers made it into a house but the commander gets stunlocked on their way there
- Fix for squads occasionally forgetting to follow their commander back out of a house
- Improved handling of corrupted campaign save files
- Fix for commander flags getting stuck on houses
- Cycling through squads will show godrays, indicating the selected squad
- Fleeing archers will be able to shoot from the ship before their commander arrives
- Fix for the squad destination marker sometimes becoming invisible
- Campaign Map updated with new visuals / animations / workflows
- Various aesthetic improvements to the islands
- Added several new island pieces to the island generator
- Pathways between levels on islands are more visible
- New fire effects
- Various additional UI / flow tweaks
- Squads will now exit the house and pretend they were helping, if they were replenishing when the battle was won
- Corpses get highlighted like grass
- Flee will popup an icon once the ship is considered fully fled (50% to the fog)
- Added sparklier snow ❄️
Current Release
14637231
Uploaded Jun 15, 2025
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
AMD Athlon X4 5350, Intel Core i3-2100T or equivalent
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
GeForce GTX 480M, Radeon HD 6790 or equivalent
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .RAR file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run BadNorth.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Size
317 MB
Build
14637231
Password: cracked-games.org or 123
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