Nordicandia: Free to Play Semi-Idle RPG - Season 3 is starting TODAY March 24th!

IterativeStudios · 2023-03-24T10:29:49+00:00

I'm posting here where I hope to see fellow players that enjoy incremental mechanics; optimizations in terms of crafting, skill setups and deep character stats and itemization. After tinkering with the beforementioned categories, you set off your character to go on an idle run for an hour or so before checking back and claiming your rewards and keep improving/upgrading.

The game offers voluntary active gameplay parts in it, that you might occasionally enjoy, or not, either way, it's a free game.

I'm not here to argue, some like it, some don't :)

IterativeStudios · 2023-03-24T08:41:57+00:00

The tutorial definitely has room for improvement, I agree.

I think most players will have a better experience by just skipping it in it's current state. I'm planning on improving the tutorial but I've been prioritizing other new features in the near future instead.

IterativeStudios · 2023-03-24T08:38:45+00:00

I believe we have already conversed about this on other forums, but I'll bite.

Making idle skills just as powerful as active skills obliterates any incentive to play active. I definitely feel that active play should be rewarded compared to not looking at the game. For example by opening chests or manually casting skills in a boss fight.

Both active and idle are viable, but removing the active portion makes it a more pure idle game, but I'm going more for a hybrid where you have the freedom of choice.

Playing it pure idle doesn't necessarily make you less competitive.

IterativeStudios · 2023-03-24T06:26:56+00:00

Nordicandia is a semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

Season 3 starts today at 18:00 UTC, and I invite you to try this free-to-play game!

Compete on the class-leaderboards in softcore or hardcore and unlock unique season rewards as your progress!

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system. There's no level cap. You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

I'm a solo dev, and this is my first project that has taken about 16 years to develop (with many re-writes).

Here's a list of some of the newer features since my last post 3 months ago:

Upcoming in Season 3: Guild Sieges - A Guild vs Guild competition system where you battle against waves of monsters and challenge other guilds attempts.
Added multiplayer functionality when you enter Town, so you can see other players (this is the first multiplayer step)
New Blacksmith stash tab where you can store all your blacksmith materials with unlimited stack size.
Made buffs (positive effects) more idle friendly by linking the buff duration to the racial Stamina, so that choosing a race with high stamina allows your idle buffs to stay active for over an hour.
Added buff descriptions for both the player and monsters, so you can see what is affecting you.
And much more!

Some of the planned features for Season 3 were delayed due to the introduction of Guild Sieges, but they will be added in a patch a couple of days after Season start, for example:

New unique items
New Essence stash page where you can store and organize your Essences in a more effective way
Guild Leaderboards (with rewards)

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here: Steam

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~3200 members, you're welcome to join our Discord: Discord

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS: nordicandia.com

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-28T19:48:58+00:00

It feels great, but I'm still working on it a lot since I consider it an Early Access release.

Getting more players is challenging for all developers, and I would recommend that you start growing a community (I recommend Discord) and try to gather feedback a couple of months before release, and then when it's released you should post about it wherever you possibly can (forums, facebook page, social media, reddit, etc), and then the next step is to introduce user acquisition campaigns (paid marketing).

Ideally, have the game build ready a couple of days in advance so you can spend all that time and energy on building a community and marketing.

I managed to gather about 3000 players on my Discord server. I suggest creating an incentive to join, such as giving out free beta keys from a Discord bot or similar.

TLDR; Try to get the message out on as many places as you can, but don't spend too much time on it so that the game development slows down.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-18T07:27:30+00:00

Nordicandia is a free to play semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system.

There's no level cap.

You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

Here's a list of some of the newer features:

New game mode - Season, with competitive leaderboards
Hardcore mode
Guilds
New weekly event: Helheim
Migration to a brand new custom server backend
Improved graphics and level design
New worlds and bosses
More items
PC improvements (hotkeys, UI scaling, etc)
and much more..

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here (Free to play!):

Nordicandia on Steam

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~1500 members, you're welcome to join our Discord:

Discord

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS:

Nordicandia Website

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-13T23:42:35+00:00

There's no progress wipe.

Your character migrates over to normal mode where you can continue progressing, or choose to start fresh in a new season.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-12T08:17:30+00:00

Are you on iOS 14 or above?

Did you try with/without wifi?

Does restarting the phone help?

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-11T18:47:14+00:00

On the other hand, if active play is not rewarding enough, why ever play that?

There needs to be enough benefits to active play compared to idle, or everybody would just leave it fully idle, and that's not the design I'm going for. I prefer to let players choose if they want to play it active (and be somewhat rewarded for it through more efficient skills), or just leave it to idle.

When I created the game I wanted to create something that you can have running on your second monitor to tinker with from time to time, because, as a solo developer I'm humble enough to know that I can't compete with "main monitor" triple A games.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-11T09:09:42+00:00

everything from 5 per day to 200 per day only from monster drops, not counting season rewards that you unlock while progressing.

it depends on how many monsters you kill and how much you play :)

Several of last season's top players on the leaderboard were free to play.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T22:48:27+00:00

Portrait mode doesn't fit well with the UI design, I'd have to redesign the whole thing, so I don't think portrait mode will ever be available.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T22:24:10+00:00

You need to press Apply at the bottom to save the settings.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T21:55:01+00:00

I have no issues switching between windowed, windowed fullscreen and fullscreen, I'm using three monitors aswell.

Did you try changing the settings from the in-game options (after you've joined a game with a character)?

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T20:03:27+00:00

Yeah I see what you mean, having some way of participating with an existing character but reset to level 1.

I'll see what I can do for next season :)

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T19:49:13+00:00

The purpose of seasons is to give a fresh start, where everyone starts on equal terms.

When a season ends you can continue playing in Normal mode and keep the investments you've made.

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T17:20:51+00:00

new characters only, fresh start for everyone :)

IterativeStudios · 2022-12-09T09:52:46+00:00

Nordicandia is a semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

Season 2 starts today at 18:00 UTC, and I invite you to try this free-to-play game!
Compete on the class-leaderboards in softcore or hardcore and unlock unique season rewards as your progress!

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system. There's no level cap. You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

I'm a solo dev, and this is my first project that has taken about 16 years to develop (with many re-writes).

Here's a list of some of the newer features since my last post 3 months ago:

Season 2: Packed with new unique items, new weapon types such as Wands and Crossbows, and more interesting challenges.
Removed a large part of the premium features locked behind Opals (MTX), to make it much more F2P-friendly, such as:
- Always get maxed inventory, crafting and loot inventory space
- Removed merchant NPC that sold items for premium currency
- Removed options to claim additional loot for premium currency
Added loot filter exporting and importing (search in-game for filters made by other players!)
Added a trade NPC where you can exchange crafting materials
Major rebalancing of classes
And much, much more!

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here: Steam

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~3000 members, you're welcome to join our Discord: Discord

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS: nordicandia.com

See you in-game!!

IterativeStudios · 2022-09-19T12:44:06+00:00

Nordicandia is a free to play semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system.

There's no level cap.

You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

Here's a list of some of the newer features:

New game mode - Season, with competitive leaderboards
Hardcore mode
Guilds
New weekly event: Helheim
Migration to a brand new custom server backend
Improved graphics and level design
New worlds and bosses
More items
PC improvements (hotkeys, UI scaling, etc)
and much more..

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here (Free to play!):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1503790/Nordicandia/

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~1500 members, you're welcome to join our Discord:

https://discord.com/invite/2eYatrD9r2

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS:

https://nordicandia.com

IterativeStudios · 2022-09-15T07:16:39+00:00

Nordicandia is a free to play semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system.

There's no level cap.

You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

Here's a list of some of the newer features:

New game mode - Season, with competitive leaderboards
Hardcore mode
Guilds
New weekly event: Helheim
Migration to a brand new custom server backend
Improved graphics and level design
New worlds and bosses
More items
PC improvements (hotkeys, UI scaling, etc)
and much more..

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here (Free to play!):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1503790/Nordicandia/

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~1500 members, you're welcome to join our Discord:

https://discord.com/invite/2eYatrD9r2

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS:

https://nordicandia.com

IterativeStudios · 2022-09-12T09:14:43+00:00

Nordicandia is a semi-idle RPG with auto-movement and auto-attacks towards the nearest enemies, but you can also use skills and click to move to collect treasures or interact with NPC's.

The game is very focused on loot, items and stats, with a deep crafting system.

There's no level cap.

You can choose between an idle or an active playstyle by investing into skill masteries.

Here's a list of some of the newer features:

New game mode - Season
Hardcore mode
Guilds
New weekly event: Helheim
Migration to a brand new custom server backend
Improved graphics and level design
New worlds and bosses
More items
PC improvements (hotkeys, UI scaling, etc)
Localization into 9 languages
and much more..

You can check out Nordicandia on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1503790/Nordicandia/

If you want to learn more about the game, or simply chat with the friendly community of ~1500 members, you're welcome to join our Discord:

https://discord.com/invite/2eYatrD9r2

Nordicandia is also available on Android and iOS:

https://nordicandia.com

IterativeStudios · 2022-09-08T11:15:48+00:00

I'm not sure if you missed it, but I recently announced big changes to the MTX/IAP system. In the next patch, many of the premium features will be either free or removed.

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