Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 12:57 pm
Niffelheim – Action Game Review
Niffelheim is a Action/Roleplaying game from Ellada Games LLC, first launched in 18th May 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 86+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Niffelheim Stand Out
Welcome to Niffelheim – an open world of Vikings filled with dangers and challenges. Prepare yourself for an immersive survival game with crafting and tower defense, mining, and base building mechanics, where your skills will be tested against horror monsters and black magic. Play an epic journey of exploration, mine into deep dungeons that hold both dangers and treasures. Niffelheim is an exceptional single-player 2D offline action RPG game without ads and in-apps purchases, with tower defense and crafts elements that will push your experience, shaping you into a true Norse mythic hero.
Craftsman and blacksmith
The rules of survival and craft games are pivotal in Nifelheim. Gather resources such as wood and ore to create weapons, bows and arrows, potions, and essential equipment to be good hunter of monster. Explore new drawings unlock magic and trade for an advantage in your fight for survival.
Castle building and defense
Build towers to create your castle, expand your base building, and reinforce walls to defend your kingdom against enemies attacks and skeletons hordes. Use various materials like wood and stone to create an impregnable fortress that defends you from Hell`s minions who like a zombies will atack your shelter.
Adventure and dungeon
Explore the dangerous world of survival RPG games, filled with adventures and horror. Enjoy fight against monsters, including undead and giants, trolls and yotuns, animals, and spiders – who will try to hinder your progress. Mine into dungeons to discover valuable last artifacts and chests, resources, and ores that help you craft the armor and weapons to fight against enemies and skeletons who like a zombie will atack your base.
Reach to Valhalla
Embark on a quest to collect the pieces of the portal leading to Asgard, unlocking the secrets of the gods' lands, rebirth the dragons. Overcome trials that test your sruvival and strength skills, confronting Death Priests and their undead minions. Travel through the Norse mythology underworld, exploring abandoned tombs and dungeons, completing NPC`s quests and reading the stories, fighting monsters and enemies, and seeking treasures and artifacts to aid you in your battle against the enemies of Asgard.
Forge and craftman
Equip yourself with powerful weapons and armor crafted in the workshops. Use resources found during gathering and exploration to create various types of equipment for hunting. Upgrade your gear to become stronger and better protected in battles against Hell`s minions.
Dishes and mushrooms
Food is crucial for survival in this Norse-themed role playing game. Collect mushrooms, berries, and other plant products to create dishes that boost your health. Test your luck and become a legendary Viking in the cold land of Niffelheim.
Choose your path in this exciting sandbox game, where each day brings new challenges and adventures. Complete daily tasks and quests immerse yourself in an open world teeming with monsters, mysteries, and magic, and become a true hero.
Prepare to fight for your life and protect your base from the dangers of this horror world. Good luck, in best Vikings simulator!
Complete the final trial, prove your worth to the gods, and open the portal to Asgard. Become part of the epic legends that speak of the great Heroes of Valhalla.
Niffelheim is an RPG where Viking sirvival depends on your skill and bravery. Build your kingdom, get resources, and craft the world. Explore dangerous dungeons, battle monsters, and Hells minions, unlock the secrets of magic and trading, and immerse yourself in the fantasy land of Vikings and land of God Hell. Pass all quests of NPCs, collect all the pieces of the portal, open the door to Asgard city, and become a legend worthy of Valhalla.
Lets don`t starve Vikings in this mythical survival game!
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Niffelheim is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th June 2025
Recent improvements include:
Performance optimization, stability improvements, and minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Niffelheim is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love everything about this game, the artwork, music, combat, crafting all work great and just the vibe of the game is so good. You really nailed it here. Well done.
Flashback on last update 1.5.51.
There was an issue with the audio, but the developer fixed it. The game is amazing and the effective troubleshooting gives us great confidence in the people who made it. We cant wait to see what they come up with next.
Thank you for making an update to help with device heating, greatly appreciate it the game is great we cant wait to see what content you come up with in the future.
Please bring to android also. We have this on switch and iphone now but would also like to have on android too. You guys make a great game. Keep up the great work.
Love the game. Only problem is after dying it took us to outside our entrance with no health and then we could walk but not enter and none of the buttons worked. Playing with current iPad Pro 11. Hope this does not occur often. Even after closing and reopening we still can do nothing. Looks like have to restart and will lose 30 minutes we put in.
If you are into hardcore survival games, look no further. Definitely worth the money, as this game can keep you entertained for hours on end. We love the art style in this game. Had the dark Nordic vibes. It can seem overwhelming when you first start, but as you explore and discover the tools at your disposal, it becomes an exciting and rewarding challenge! Very easy to look at with the awesome graphics and art style. Controls are fairly simple as well. No complaints for us on this one.
This is our dream game! Besides absolutely loving the Norse mythology, it has everything that we love in a game, done very cleverly. Action combat? Check! Free roam exploration? Check! Deep dark dungeons to explore? Check! Mining? Check! Crafting? Check! And so so much more! We have no issues with button size but Im playing on a iPad perhaps that is more problematic on a phone.
We tried to start a new game and every enemy had the same hit points for our level 1 character as our level 90 character was faced with. This makes it close to impossible to build or level up, when you have to re-level to 90 to even kill a boar. New games need the NPC stats reset.
Needs to support controller usage. Backbone, blu tooth, anything.
If you die you might as well start over because trying to get back to zero, you will probably keep dying over and over and never make it there. The ultimatums/Attacks/witch thing, as the player you never feel like you can get ahead on defenses or turn ins and in effect only keep your junk in the vault and give up defending. Beautiful game but never feel like you are advancing death is a restart.
Too big.. It takes up too much of the screen.
This game has great atmosphere and graphics. Theres the only good thing we can say about this game. It has virtually no support. The crafting system is buggy and broken. There are no clear directions on how to harvest, craft or build. For the money spent on this game, we had much higher expectations. Avoid this game at all costs: it is a honey trap with no real entertainment value.
We bought this a couple months ago thinking it might be a game to put next to Crashlands, Dont Starve and Junk Jack as the only games that deal with crafting that Ive gotten into… Because we really like Viking mythology and Scandinavian history, but…. This felt more like a farming sim or town building game but developed as a 2D side-scroller. There was some action in the couple hours we played, but not much. We might really enjoy the mid to late game stuff, but gosh dang does it feel like a slog through tap collecting boredom that Im not patient enough to keep up with. We keep trying to play a bit more, but every time we need some more space on our phone its one of the first games to get offloaded again…. Im sure Im not the target audience, and we did just grab this on a whim during one of the sales over the last few months…. We will say that we feel like we got more than the $2 or whatever we paid for it, because, well, its clear that tons of work went into this, and that it is a labor of love. Im sorry you werent able to hook another player with this sale, but you do have another gamer with you on their radar, so whenever if ever you make another game…. Ill definitely be interested in checking it out.
Thanks for controller support! We play this co-op with our wife on Steam. We are hoping to be able to play online or same screen co-op here. That would make this a 5 star game. Is co-op in the works.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.17
- Size: 348.07 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Ellada Games LLC
Last updated: 18th June 2025 | Genre: Action, Roleplaying | Developer: Ellada Games LLC