

What you’re not told, however, is that you need to at least start the Asgard arc - something I had not done in my initial playthrough. You’re told there’s a new quest, “A Gift from the Otherworld,” in Ravensthorpe, your main hub in Valhalla once you reach England. “The Forgotten Saga” is part of a free Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update that rolled out last week for all platforms. Obviously, I couldn’t leave “the Forgotten Saga” forgotten. I figured I’d had my fill after sinking 90 hours into it - and that’s without having touched any of the expansions: the Wrath of Druids, the Siege of Paris, or the Dawn of Ragnarok.įew genres grab me by the collar as much as roguelikes do, whether it’s the moody action of Returnal or the compulsive dungeon-crawling of Hades or the brain-stumping strategy of Into the Breach. Largely set in Scandinavia and Great Britain around the 9th century, Valhalla is a lot of game (too much, some might say).

First released in 2020, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the most recent entry in Ubisoft’s open-world series of historical murder sims. I say “dammit” because I am now dedicating a solid tenth of my Xbox Series X’s storage space to a game I thought I was well and truly done with. Last week, Ubisoft added a free roguelike mode called “ the Forgotten Saga,” which is basically the size of a whole game unto itself. Just when you thought Assassin’s Creed Valhalla couldn’t get any bigger, it does.
