Norse Oath of Blood release countdown: Exact date and time

Norse Oath of Blood is coming soon to PC, and it could be an interesting title to try out in the second half of this month.

Norse Oath of Blood merges two popular genres, as you can enjoy town-building and turn-based tactics in the same game. This guide will help you keep track of the upcoming launch so you can jump in when the game goes live.

Norse Oath of Blood release countdown

Norse Oath of Blood will release globally on Tuesday, Feb. 17, on PC and consoles. The following countdown will expire once the game goes live.

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The countdown is based on the following timings.

• 6am PT
• 8am CT
• 9am ET
• 2pm UTC
• 3pm CET

The timings mentioned above are based on the information available at SteamDB. If there’s any last-minute change to the published schedule, I will duly update the timer above.

What to expect from Norse Oath of Blood

Norse Oath of Blood puts you in the boots of Gunnar, who has been exiled after the murder of his father. You’ve to guide Gunnar to help him rebuild his settlement, form alliances, and take charge of his band of warriors.

All battles in the game are played using turn-based tactics. You have to control each unit meticulously and instruct them accordingly. To do so, you have to pay attention to the enemy, terrain, and other factors that can influence the outcome of the battle.

You must build your Viking village and transform it into a thriving society. Take care of your villagers’ needs, assign them roles, and manage your resources to help your village prosper and grow. At the same time, you’ll have to hire new warriors and train them to enlarge your army.

You can currently pre-purchase the game on Steam. You can either opt for the Standard Edition or spend a bit more to get the Special Edition. The latter includes the full game and includes bonuses like the Full Kievan War Armour Set and the Unique Ulfberht Sword.

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While Sony has been porting many of its games to the PC platform, especially in the last few years, the Xbox hasn’t had as much luck. Despite Microsoft’s embrace of a multiplatform approach, Sony seems to prefer exclusivity and the PC at most. Or so Insomniac Games would love to believe, firmly denying that its Spider-Man games would ever be ported to Xbox.

As per tech4gamers, Insomniac Games very bluntly stated that in an exchange on X, telling a fan that an Xbox port of Spider-Man is “not likely.” Naturally, Insomniac’s Marvel games are a Sony powerhouse, funded, produced, and published by the Japanese gaming giant, which unsurprisingly prefers to keep its first-party games in-house and available on its own platform.

However, Sony has increasingly played with multiplatform releases, porting games or even launching them on the PlayStation and PC simultaneously (i.e., the case of Helldivers 2). Insomniac itself once believed that Spider-Man would remain a first-party PlayStation exclusive, given that it’s backed and published by Sony, only for the games to eventually come out on Steam.

Microsoft’s embrace of multiplatformity seems to have also triggered similar sentiments at Sony. After the massive success of Helldivers 2‘s simultaneous launch (that, too, was published by Sony), the company seems more eager to do multiplatform releases. Microsoft, as I’ve said, only helped grow those sentiments, porting its own major first-party franchises over to the PlayStation, likely in anticipation of Sony doing the same.

It remains to be seen whether the Marvel games are part of this deal. A while ago, Sony did say that some franchises were console sellers first and foremost, and that porting them over would adversely affect PlayStation sales.

While that might be true, franchises don’t sell so well all the time, and porting even the most valuable games would be a smart move after some time spent in exclusivity (after sales start dipping).

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