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ASKA Review: Viking Colony Sim With Big Promise, Real Quirks (This is NOT Valheim 2.0)

56 years ago Tristan

https://youtu.be/K-aLqR4JO6U ASKA drops you on a stormy shore as a tribe leader with a hammer, a couple of half-frozen villagers,...

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