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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s dice minigame comes to the real world next yearOrlog! Orlog! Orlog!
Orlog! Orlog! Orlog!
Orlog! Orlog! Orlog! I have played a grand total of four hours ofAssassin’s Creed Valhalla, and at least two of them have been playing this daft dice game. Much like The Witcher 3’s Gwent, players can stumble upon Orlog challengers throughout Valhalla, and partake in a weirdly engrossing minigame. I have good news for those of us who’ve got hooked on it - Ubisoft are making an actual physical version that’s set to arrive next year.
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If ever there was a Viking dice game, of course it would be about killing your opponent, right? However, it turns out Orlog wasn’t a real game. Actual Vikings didn’t run around rolling six-sided dice for fun - though, they did have board games that involved chucking cylindrical things instead. Unfortunately, those didn’t work so well with Valhalla’s physics engine.
“The goal was to have a game that would be ‘credible’ rather than historically accurate as we didn’t find any clear rules throughout our research,” Benoit Richer, Ubisoft’s co-development game director, told our sister siteDicebreaker.
Originally, they wanted Orlog to be more like a deckbuilding game, too, letting players collect unique dice on their journeys to customise their rolls. I’m kind of glad it never came to that. My obsession with deckbuilders likeMonster Trainand Slay The Spire has only just subsided.
There’s no word yet on exactly when the physical adaption of Orlog will be available. Ubisoft are working with PureArts (who create lots ofveryexpensivefigurines and things) to make it, and it’ll arrive sometime in 2021.
Valhalla has plenty more going on to keep us busy while we wait for this excellent spin-off board game, though. Have a browse of Jake’s bigAssassin’s Creed Valhalla walkthroughfor help and guidance on what to do next. Or, if you haven’t played it yet, check out Alice Bee’sAssassin’s Creed Valhalla reviewto see if it’s worth picking up.
