Raiders of the North Sea

Dire Wolf Digital

About this game

“Raiders is mounting a serious challenge as one of the best mobile board games out there.” - Kotaku

“The digital version does a brilliant job of recreating the feel of the board game. Smartly designed, with some wonderful visuals and enthralling entertainment, well worth plundering. (5/5 stars)” - Pocket Tactics

“As it stands, this is one of the best all around apps out there…. A beautiful digital implementation, the game jumps to life on your mobile device.” - Pixelated Cardboard


It's Raiding Season! Plunder your way to Viking adventure in the digital adaptation of the award-winning worker-placement board game!

In Raiders of the North Sea, players assemble a crew and outfit a longboat to raid settlements for gold and fame. Impress your Chieftain in glorious battle and win your place among the legends of the North Sea!

It's Raiding Season!
Assemble a crew and outfit a longboat to raid settlements for gold and fame! Impress your Chieftain in glorious battle and win your place among the legends of the North Sea in this digital adaptation of the award-winning board game!

The Official Digital Adaptation of the Award-Winning Board Game!
Plunder your way to adventure as Raiders of the North Sea brings the strategy and fun of the hit tabletop game to digital life!

Deep Worker Placement Strategy!
Each turn you'll harvest resources twice: first by placing one worker, and then by recovering a different one!
Use your resources to hire a Viking crew and outfit your longboat!
Send your crew on daring raids to win gold and glory!
Survive battles with the legendary Valkyrie...or honor your Chieftain in a glorious death!
Amass Plunder and make sacrificial Offerings to win!

Many Ways to Raid!
Turn-Based Strategy lets you play at your own pace!
Learn the Oars in a full tutorial that teaches you the strategy of the game!
Lead Your People in single-player games against AI opponents!
Rise to Greatness in multiplayer battles!

Ratings and reviews

A great port of the cardboard version, especially now notifications have been fixed. Would be five stars but it takes a while to load back into a game as the game doesn't retain your game state when running in the background. This would be quicker if the opening cinematic didn't load every time the app does! Would be great to toggle this off in the options.

Whilst the game is really good and a great adaptation, we mainly play board games in restaurants and out and about, this means it is for pass and play and does get frequent pauses. The main issue is that if the app closes then we need to be able to continue from where we left off, however for pass and play there is no way of saving a game or continuing from an active game. I'd happyily rate 5* if it did but right now the feature is missing

Great tutorial got me started quickly , and it's a wonderful game with a decently challenging AI. However... I dropped my rating from 5 stars to 3 once I started trying to play online. The online experience is excruciating, with repeated crashes and necessary force-quits. Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 attempts just to play my turn. The friend I play with has an iphone, and has had similar experiences. So: fantastic game for solo play. But VERY buggy and frustrating to try to play online.

What's new

Add support for android 13