In the Halls of Asgard—Hold Asgard together, or walk away from it

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Originally published at: In the Halls of Asgard—Hold Asgard together, or walk away from it. - Choice of Games LLC

Hosted Games has a new game for you to play!

Play as a Norse god living in Asgard. Will you hold your home together with a silver tongue—or walk away and leave the other gods to their quarrels? 

In the Halls of Asgard is 30% off until June 19th!

In the Halls of Asgard is a 300,000-word interactive novel by Eleanor Cooke. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. 

As a god of Asgard, you’ve dealt with your fair share of difficulties, from Loki’s mischief to Odin’s machinations. Still, Ragnarök looms. Will you work with the other gods to prevent it or form your own team and try to win it instead? Either way, you’ll need allies. And power.

Find both as you navigate Asgard’s political waters and deal with its enemies, from the World Serpent, Jormungandr, to the giants in Jotunheim. Send them off with clever words and charm or ride to war with magical weapons.

  • Play as a god; gender and sexuality are unspecified.
  • Choose from five godly domains.
  • Befriend Fenris Wolf—or betray him.
  • Wield Thor’s hammer.
  • Fight against the giants—or join them.

Ragnarök is coming, and Asgard is starting to fracture. Can you keep it together, or will you fall on the final battlefield?

Eleanor developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.

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Congrats on the release! This looks like a fun game! :tada:

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Win it??? Insanity! How does (or even can) one win Ragnarök??!!??

By very definition, isn’t that the end of everything???

Good grief!

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Well, it shouldn’t be possible because of how deterministic fate is within Norse mythology. Afterall, one of the smartest and williest characters within the Norse mythology (if not the smartest) had not been able to avoid Ragnarok despite knowing about it beforehand.

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To be fair, only two humans as far as I’m aware of gets to survive Ragnarok and some minor gods got to survive it.

Just the big names that basically got killed off on both sides of Ragnarok that would make someone think that no one lived through it.

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Since Ragnarök is said to involve a battle between the gods and evil/chaotic forces, it’s at least within the realm of imagination that the gods could win - even if it’s more of an impossible hope than a likely outcome. And the myth of Ragnarök doesn’t actually end with the destruction of everything, but with a new beginning. Some scholars see this as part of a cycle, rather than a singular event, so maybe it’s not that farfetched to imagine that “Ragnarök” could play out differently the next time around.

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Didn’t see this one coming up but sounds pretty cool.
Norse mythology is one of my favorites and it’s great to get to play a game like that.

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Play the dam game and find out :ninja:

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eh. tbh, this story fell short for me. No choice of gender or sexuality, no relationship choices, this could of been better if I’m honest.
good try tho. 5/10 (honest rating)

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i mean, you could quit complaining and just read the story for yourself. It’s a STORY. Not real life, relax dude. :woman_facepalming:t4:

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Because fate doesn’t have shit on death and the death god MC is the only one who can fight alone against the big bad and win because death is truly inevitable while fate isn’t

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Suprisingly really good game and overlooked by many. The only minus is our character not having love interest. Also don’t think too much about some of the reviews because well it’s just review you ca follow or not it up to you and not being forced

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If you read the description before buying, you would have known that gender and sexuality were unspecified.

The author is asexual. She made it clear in her WIP thread that romance isn’t something she’s comfortable writing. At all.

If you don’t care to play a game without romance, fine - that’s a legitimate preference. But it’s on you in that case to do your research before you buy. If there’s no mention of romance in the plot description, just ask in the announcement thread and you’ll likely get an answer very quickly.

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Really good story, I really enjoyed the God of Death route and God of Animals. Was kind of a bummer that there was no romance though. I could really see some good chemistry with Freya, and Loki as RO. My other critique is that the side characters felt rather bland and the plot was predictable. I was seriously hoping for a plot twist like the God of Fire MC being a secret son of Surtr or something. But I suppose, beggars can’t be choosers.

Now I just hope someone will finally make a good Greek Pantheon IF with a proper God MC. That Persephone IF I forgot the name of was boring and the story was clearly meant to be played with a Female MC.

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Iam really sorry but i wann know how to get the achievement (wield Thor’s hammer)
Please even hint will help…
Done got it no need for spoilers unless someone want to know

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I never said I had a problem with it being that way, and I commend an author for doing what they feel comfortable with, yes, I could of researched more, but to be honest, i wanted to give it a shot. My review may seem a bit harsh, and I admit that, but after finishing the book, I realised that these weren’t my kind of stories. No offence was intended.

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Hope there achievement guide for this game

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I don’t know what I have read. When you say death, do you mean Hela? How would fate be avoidable if it is detirministic? Determinism is when everything have been pre-determined and is fated to follow a specific path. That’s not something you can avoid in any way.

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the other person was just talking about the MC that chooses to become the deity of death and that fate, one of the norns that control the future got nothing to defeat death

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I meant the death God and and what is predetermined for everything death faith is just a force the guides the events but death is the end and the end decided it doesn’t like what is the guide doing what will faith will do fight to death it will lose like in one of the endings where we harmed fate