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Reviews

“A brilliant marriage of mechanics, level design and music that will be played and talked about for years to come.”
93/100 – PC Gamer

“It’s the most exhilarating competitive game I’ve played in years.”
9/10 – IGN

“Nidhogg is about the purity of two friends on a couch duking it out as Daedelus’s moody dynamic electronica frames acrobatic displays of wits and reflexes. In that sense, it has no equal.”
9/10 – Edge

Feature List

4 Challenging Arenas
Castle, Wilds, Mines, and Clouds… where will your skills excel? Each level has multiple rooms that test your skills as a player, and highlight your strengths as you attempt to exploit your opponents weaknesses.

2 Player Local-Multiplayer
The best mode in Nidhogg! Playing next to someone is the most fun way to enjoy this game, but fair warning, things might get a little crazy!

Tournament Mode
Host the dopest houseparty on your block, with the 3 to 8 person local-multiplayer tournament mode in Nidhogg. Massive amounts of spectator excitement is guaranteed to occur.

Networked Play
Challenge your friends or find the lowest latency match online through matchmaking.

Single Player Arcade Mode
Practice and tune your fighting strategies against an array of AI personalities. Play a speedrun for bragging rights on the leaderboards!

Full Controller Support
Control the whole game from the couch in Big Picture mode!

Dynamic Music by Daedelus
Fantastic beats by the infamous electronic music creator, Daedelus. With dynamically altering music created specifically for Nidhogg, the music is unique with each play-through.

Achievements
Unlock challenging achievements that will test your skills across all modes of Nidhogg.

Game Variants
In offline multiplayer or tournament mode, switch up your game play with a new game play mode (or a collection of them!). Toggle on and off Spine Swords, Slow Mode, Trails, Boomerang Swords, Time Limit, No swords, no Throws, Throws only, Divekicks, Baby Mode, Low gravity, Sudden Death Only, Skippy Mode, and Turbo Mode.

About This Game

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning fencing tug-of-war, full of graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs. IRL yelling and excitement may occur, in this ultimate two-player showdown of fast-paced fencing and melee attacks.

Beware, advantages in Nidhogg are often fleeting, as new opponents continually spawn in your way. Use a variety of fencing maneuvers while armed -- lunges, parries, and even dirty tricks like throwing your sword. If swordless, press forward with punches, sweep kicks, dive kicks, rolls, and wall jumps.

The combat arena stretches in both directions, although besting an opponent only gains you ground. Matches aren’t won or lost with a single kill, but with a series of kills granting you right-of-way to run/fight/flee to your own goal-zone.

Each arena holds different strategic formations and chokepoints to use to your advantage. Until you reach your goal-zone, anything is possible. Only one thing is certain in Nidhogg… the only way to win is to outwit your opponent. En Garde!

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

Minimum:

OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7
Processor: 1.2GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller or Direct Input compatible controller

Recommended:

OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7
Processor: 1.4GHz processor or faster
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller or Direct Input compatible controller

Minimum:

OS: 10.9
Processor: 1.2GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 200 MB available space

Recommended:

OS: 10.9
Processor: 1.4GHz processor or faster
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 200 MB available space

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Posted: 7 August

Its like fencing the game, its great.

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Posted: 5 August

Dont get this game if you dont have a roomate who tends to get aggro by losing xD

He threw my gamepad against verything he say XDDD

that game is simply awsome even it wass like 4 months ago

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Posted: 4 August

This is one of the most intense pvp experiences on steam. A classic example of less is more. A true minimalist masterpeice. Recommend to players who like to get competitive with their friends as well as those who enjoy spilling some technicolor, pixelated blood.

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Posted: 4 August

I lost my eardrums because my friends were screaming to-

"stop running away, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥"

I also lost a friend.

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Posted: 1 August

Fun to play with friends.

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Posted: 1 August

much good much bad

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Posted: 31 July

Very poor optimization for some windows machines.

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Posted: 30 July

£10.99?

NO.

After paying a tenth of that while Nidhogg was on sale, I made the unfortunate mistake of inviting some of my friends to play it with me.They now avoid it like it's the plague, which makes the fact that I am actually capable of beating them at something for a change kind of redundant.

There's much to love about the premise- a series of gory, pixelated duels in various different locales- and indeed the execution, which is often sublime- but the lack of any noticable online optimisation paired with one of the most excessive price tags I've ever seen for something which- at least for me- amounted to a few hours of 'fun' with friends makes it difficult to reccomend, even while on discount.

Having not played it locally doesn't (at least in my mind) make the daylight robbery that is 17 dollars any less significant, and it's hard not to be upset when you think about it.
At the end of the day, if you feel like buying Nidhogg while it's discounted, be my guest. If you're a masochist and on a spending spree, why not buy it full price? If, however, you are in search of a truly entertaining online experience to play with your mates? Buy Mount Your Friends.

Trust me, the 'swords' are just as good. ;)

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Posted: 30 July

Fencing. Screams, Pixel blood everywhere. Giant man eating worms. Fisticuffs. Stabbing people with long pointy things. 10/10. Would shed pixelated blood again. Single player very short/aracadish but don't care. So many rainbows of pixel blood.

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Posted: 29 July

Not gonna lie haven't play the game in a little because I haven't had friends that would like to plsy as well but, when I last played I experienced server issues which may ork may not be fixed now still really fun and competitive with friends. Would by especially on sale.

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Most Helpful Reviews In the past 30 days

Mitchfynde

452 products in account

80 reviews

Posted: 14 July

It's a great game IF and ONLY IF you have 2 controllers and friends to play with in real life. The online play isn't reliable the game feels really bad playing on a keyboard. Keep that in mind before buying.

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gazeboman

80 products in account

21 reviews

Posted: 10 July

Fun but has an extreme lack of content

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Jesus

270 products in account

71 reviews

Posted: 14 July

Online multiplayer is straight up broken. De-sync to hell, you win but the other player still sees you on the first room lol.

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El Burro Loco

465 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: 12 July

So simple... So fun. Bought it as part of a Humble Bundle, and probably wouldn't have looked at it otherwise.
The description is spot on - a fencing tug of war. Nothing more to add really - Controller works great (other than a misplaced pause button).

Best enjoyed 1-on-1 with an 11 year old son who appreciates gameplay over graphics and can actually tolerate losing to his Dad... No mercy.

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Wolfy!!x2 #teamchitoge

305 products in account

49 reviews

Posted: 13 July

Pros
+Fencing feels good
+Energetic soundtrack that is difficult not to love
+Nice graphics
+It's something that was never seen before
+Very competetive
+With friends it's absolutly amazing

Mediocre
=Playing alone will get you bored

Cons
-Only 4 maps (They are good thougth)
-Only 1 (!!) gamemode
-The online is kinda empty
-WAY overpriced, it's just to much for so little content
-"Singleplayer" is only a cluster of the same 4 maps wiith progresivly more difficult bots.

My verdict
7.5/10

This not a bad game but because of lack of content (wchich wouldn't really be a problem if not for the price tbh) I cannot recommended for a player that is going to play this game alone. If you are going to play this game with a friend then it's going to be a really fun time.

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deepcut

993 products in account

33 reviews

Posted: 26 July

Good mechanics but.. unfortunately, as other comments mention, networking seems to be completely broken.
Probably still a good time for hot-seat play, if you have a regular group of buddies for that.
I only paid bundle price, but for me the broken online play leaves me not recommending it.

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Mongoloid Mike

1,088 products in account

450 reviews

Posted: 12 July

Much more annoying than fun

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_KEYSTONE

39 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: 9 July

>played with a friend
>fought hard and long for 10 mins
>wins
>finds out you get eaten in the end
>would do it again 10/10

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JAME5™

46 products in account

10 reviews

Posted: 16 July

"EN GARDE F-UCKBOI."

"HOW THE F-UCK?"

"WHAT THE F-UCK? HOW?"

"F-UCK YOU."

"YOU'RE F-UCKING CHEAP."

And many other quotes I have said while playing this with a friend.

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