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Laura –
Great game for 5-7 year olds and the grown ups enjoy it too. We reach for this game regularly in our family and each time the winner is different.
Thomas –
Fast and fun
Good game, easy and quick to play. Not too much depth, but enough to entertain the kids and much more fun than strictly luck based games.
Montana Pioneer –
Beautifully made! Perfect addition to our Gramma Camp Viking theme!
HABA is the best! The quality of this game is stellar. Bought it as an addition to our Gramma Camp Viking theme. A hit with my 5 and 8-year-old grandsons. Super fun to assemble the longships and set up the game. The rules of the game took a bit of going over and over again, but once we caught the vision we were excited to begin raiding and plundering. Thank you HABA!
Kristy –
Fun Family Game!
We have had a great time playing this since Christmas! My daughter is 6 and absolutely loves it! There is enough strategy to make the game interesting and lightly tense without making my 6 year old frustrated or lost. The components are the high quality I’m used to from HABA games, and the art is absolutely adorable. My husband and I have played a few times each controlling two boats and had a blast as adults – this definitely makes the strategy more interesting! Thanks HABA for a wonderfully fun and new family game night staple!
Arina –
Best gift for boy
Haba this is a best game for boys 4-8 y.o and even my husband love this game!!!! We have this game 8 months already, and all our friends received this game from us on their birthdays!!!
Stegs31 –
Fantastic game for the whole family
This is a greta game and arrived quickly. I also want to make amends for a incorrectly left feedback earlier that was intended for a different game and seller which was terrible experience. Not the case with this Haba game! Awesome!
Detective Vien –
Awesome game!
I really like HABA and when I saw this, I can’t help but buy it for my son. We love it! I highly recommend this game. Thank you HABA!
TC –
Seems like a kids game, but is much more
Let me start with the fact that I did not want to buy this originally. I was very hesitant because I thought it wouldn’t be any good. Wow was I wrong. This game is an AMAZING game targeted for kids but one that is silly and fun for adults. However, with that being said, I’m really torn on how to review this game because while the gameplay is 5 stars for me (not just reviewing as a kids game but an adult dexterity game), the components are truly sub par, and not of high quality. For a more expensive Haba game, this is a disappointing discovery.Let’s begin with the gameplay. Wow. The game play is actually great. This masquerades as a kids game on the surface, but is really an interesting dexterity/strategy game that adults can play and have fun with. So cool. Yes you knock over barrels, but there is so much strategy in where you put them – not only for yourself, but also the person who goes after you. You really want to think about your strategy in the dexterity part because that then sets up the “worker placement” part. What a unique concept. This is unlike any game I have ever played. The kids had fun, the adults had fun, and it was a game that is a fun dexterity filler for just adults even. What a game…….. if only the components were better, this would have been an easy 5 for me.As one of Habas more expensive games, the quality here is a real let down. First off, the box on the inside is ungluing in the corner already, even upon receipt of the game. The cardboard items that you punch out (other than the ships) were semi separating before playing game 1. The ships are cool, but you can barely store them in the large box half built (takes some planning – I store the game board pieces in the middle and the ships along the edge) because if you keep taking them apart you know they are going to have a short lifespan (tip, use some quality glue to attach the sides to the bottom, on the bottom side of the ship – they will look really nice and withstand play well) especially since they already want to come apart and don’t like to stay together which is ugh. From a gameplay perspective the ships are bad though because you want to know how many coins other players have, which can affect your strategy and you are supposed to put the coins in the ships which blocks your visibility…….seems kind of counter intuitive. Another issue with organization is, how about some baggies for components?!?!?!? One baggie for the coins (nice plastic ones at least that look cool) only? Come on. Lastly, like I have seen from some other reviewers , it would have been nice to have a better piece to bat the ball with. I hope the cardboard cutout lasts, but since some of the cardboard pieces are already not so great, I have very little faith, especially as a kids game.Would I recommend this? I am conflicted here because it is really fun to play on many levels. People laugh and enjoy the game a lot, which is what game time is really all about. It is just a great time. But it also costs as much as many other games with waaaaaaay better components. I am going to kind of cheat here and say…maybe. You might want this game because it is a blast to play, but you also need to be prepared for pieces to fall apart and not last, and know that you might have to make some fixes to the game pieces. I look forward to playing this a lot in the future with my kids and friends (a pleasant surprise hit!) and hope it lasts. I just don’t expect it to though sadly, and when it falls apart I’ll likely be tossing it out unfortunately.
Kurt –
Sooooo many advertisements and logos!
This review is for the HABA Valley of the Vikings board game.How many times do you think the manufacturer advertises their logo on the actual game pieces? Once or twice, like every other manufacturer? Nope.By my count, they advertise their logo 56 times on actual game pieces! It’s hard to see in the photo, but their logo is on 8 flags plus front and back of 24 coins. The game is littered with their advertisements!This particular manufacturer does this for all their games, and it is super distracting and ruins immersion. I already purchased the game, so I don’t understand why I have to be constantly bombarded with their advertisements.The game itself is okay, although the bowling ball is cheap, and we replaced the janky yellow coins with feng shui/pirate coins. I will not purchase further games from this company.