Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Norse warrior who has died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla.
Jotun: Valhalla Edition is an adventure developed by Thunder Lotus, released 29 September 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. It currently starts at $1.49 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Jotun: Valhalla Edition is
Jotun: Valhalla Edition is an adventure game developed by Thunder Lotus and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death that denied her a place in Valhalla, awakens in the Norse void of Ginnungagap. To prove her worth to the gods and earn her way into the afterlife of heroes, she is charged with journeying across the realms to challenge and defeat the Jotun, colossal elemental giants of nature and chaos. As she battles these towering foes and explores the beautiful, hand-drawn worlds between them, Thora reflects on the life and death that brought her to this final trial.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 36 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Jotun: Valhalla Edition holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.49, that works out to about $0.30 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM and DirectX 10-compatible graphics card with at least 256MB of video memory. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at IndieGala, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Jotun: Valhalla Edition launched on 29 September 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Soma. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Soma.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Jotun: Valhalla Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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