There’s bone-crunching combat and flying kicks in this side-scrolling Viking revenge saga

I know a lot of you Vikings are twiddling your thumbs until Valheim’s Hearth and Home update arrives in two weeks. But you can put some of that impatient energy into another Viking-themed game, Song of Iron, a side-scrolling revenge saga with some pretty slick design and kinetic, bone-crunching combat. 

After your village is burned down and your loved ones are slaughtered (I mean, you’re a Viking, that’s gonna happen), you stalk off into the woods, grabbing a simple shield and a basic axe. Before long you’re blocking, hacking, and slashing as you come across your foes, and then helping yourself to their gear as you find better weapons and your shield begins to splinter.