Submit any bugs or issues you've encountered while playing Northgard.

Multiplayer connection sever issues

@Shiro Community Team#2519 unfortunately I must echo a lot of people here that the servers have been crashing for me ever since the update. A frequent error is my ...
Suggested by: Zra (15 May, '22) Upvoted: yesterday Comments: 111

game crashes at end of chapter 4

At the moment the game is one and the outro talk of the clan leaders begins the game crashes. I tried to start from the auto save but the problem comes up every time. ...
Suggested by: Fez (14 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 13

Northgard freeze

Game causes screens to freeze at random moments. Audio from the game and other apps still can be heard, but you can't do anything in Windows. The only way to solve ...
Suggested by: Ruvik (11 Mar, '23) Upvoted: 14 May Comments: 21
Approved Crash

No sound when changing sound device

Problem: Losing sound 🔇 This is especially annoying if you play a long match and sounds is a big part of the game. Happens when: - Changing sound device - ...
Suggested by: Jim (09 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 22 Jan Comments: 50
Fixed Sound

Performance issues since July balance patch

Now having significant performance issues playing Northgard after this latest patch. The game is chugging on my Dell I7-6700 NVidia GTX 960M 16 GB Ram laptop. Up ...
Suggested by: Shiro Games (03 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 09 Apr Comments: 36

AI brocken (or much to easy) on extreme

We are playing a conquest on extreme. Since the last update, in every mission the AI don´t have more then 2 units + warchief. Last game was a 2vs6 and the AIs were ...
Suggested by: Akiyama (26 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 17
Dev Noted AI

Game freezes on battles on Multiplayer.

Game screen freezes, but it is still possible to hear the game in the background running like there is no issue. It is not a sound loop since we could hear new things ...
Suggested by: Eduardo Preto (09 May, '22) Upvoted: 20 Jan Comments: 20
Dev Noted Multiplayer

villagers can't be assigned

Hi, I've got a bug that makes Northgard unplayable, which I'm finding after installing it and trying to play for the first time in a long while. From Steam ...
Suggested by: Ian (07 May, '22) Upvoted: 30 Dec, '25 Comments: 33
Investigating Mac Unit

AI is not competitive (broken) in PvE (conquest, coop vs AI, etc) - Serious rework/overhaul needed.

**I would like to recommend that the developers go into the Discussion/Forum section on Steam, and just look through the various posts for titles containing "AI" - ...
Suggested by: Bret (06 Feb, '24) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 3
Dev Noted AI

Expedition chests do not stay permanently open after triggering (until end of week)

The weekly expeditions, when completed, the first time you click on the chest will show the reward, then if you click away and back to them, the chest will look like ...
Suggested by: WYZHS (12 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '25 Comments: 10
Dev Noted Expedition

Conquest endless loading screen (2025)

Hey, Northgard had this problem before, according to bug reports. But apparently, it's bugged its way back into the Definitive Edition. I was playing normally and ...
Suggested by: Florian / KinderGeld5 (21 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 07 Jun Comments: 18

Weird Sparks in battle

After the update, every time a unit hits another unit, strange sparkles fly out of them. This is very annoying and the game lags because of this. the problem is ...
Suggested by: name (19 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 12 Sep, '25 Comments: 3

"Waiting for the server" issue after starting any MP game

I am recently returned to Northgard. Played a lot b4 in multiplayer, all was fine (previous seasons). I Didn't even reinstalled the game since than. Now, after all ...
Suggested by: MiSTiK (18 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 17
Investigating Multiplayer

When a shipwreck takes too much space on a small shore, you can not build a shipyard

The shipyard model always stays red and can not find enough space to be built
Suggested by: Hezz (09 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 21 Jan Comments: 9
Dev Noted Building

Game Crashes on Victory screen.

Every victory as hound, eagle and rat causes the game to freezes then crashes.
Suggested by: PickledxDurian (30 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 20 Jan Comments: 34
Fixed Crash

AI will never win a domination victory

Dear Dev-Team, like pointed out in other threads the AI is massively too easy. So I wanted to test it. I started a individual game: 1vs7, all 7 AIs on EXTREME and I ...
Suggested by: Akiyama (03 Aug, '23) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 4
Approved AI

No reward for completing Bifrost on Classic

As said in the title, I've just completed Bifrost on Classic difficulty with Horse [P2P]. Got an achievment on steam, notification right after the game, there is a ...
Suggested by: BLiTZ (06 Nov, '24) Upvoted: 16 Jun Comments: 18

Game crash randomly without message or error

Since latest patch (7/1/26, second patch) game has hard crashed twice during win of conquest map. 1st with Snake clan on Yggdrasil victory 2nd with Snake clan on ...
Suggested by: Villanelle (07 Jan) Upvoted: 29 May Comments: 36
Fixed Crash

Multiplayer broken

Multiplayer broken afther owl uppdate
Suggested by: Diamx (07 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 19

Race to Yggdrasil but Yggdrasil does not spawn on the map

Trying to do a conquest with my partner but the tree never spawns so we literally cannot get past the first conquest level... Happened twice in a row despite ...
Suggested by: Rhi (04 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 14 Jan Comments: 6

The game crash, close randomly or with the message "uncaught exception"

Suggested by: Lunalithe (23 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 19 Jan Comments: 2
Investigating Crash

AI is disproportionally quick and aggressive in Defend the Oppressed

We played several games on hard mode, conquest, Ox and Lynx. The AI is overwhelmingly strong and aggressive, as in combined armies of 20 units that swarm the ...
Suggested by: Patrick (16 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 13 Mar Comments: 3

FPS drop/ lag mid late game

Conquest Since Stoat release game stutters and slows towards mid/late game. Win 10 Both Yes, all conquest
Suggested by: Howl (11 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 19 Jan Comments: 3

FREEZE BUG: Cross of Vidar Mission 5 (Aurelianis)

Hello Devs! I am reporting this bug in the Cross of Vidar story campaign. Basically, what happened was that the game freezes as the ending cutscene takes place in ...
Suggested by: Leo Gabriel V. Bautista (05 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 30 Jul, '25 Comments: 10
Investigating Story 2

Rimesteel in short supply

On the new Monuments of the Ancients map, Rimesteel doesn't seem to be readily available. The conquest mission notes say there will be some scattered across the map, ...
Suggested by: Razlem (22 Sep, '25) Upvoted: 14 Feb Comments: 12

Incompetent AI Clans (hard mode)

So playing through conquest on hard to try the new owl clan and I noticed AI clans are just dying/losing without any interaction with me. And these aren't always ...
Suggested by: Todd (09 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 24 Sep, '25 Comments: 4
Approved AI

Lag makes final boss in bifröst undoable

1 - Bifröst Multiplayer Peer to Peer 2 - Windows 10 3 - DirectX 4 - Happens every time 5 - dont have 6 - Happens every time 7 - Happens every time Playing ...
Suggested by: VoidEffort (12 Jan, '25) Upvoted: 09 Jun Comments: 0
Approved Bifrost

UI disappears after reconnection in network game

Game mode draugheim, 2 players + 2 ai vs 4 ai UI still disappears after reconnection in network game AND close this error window. Lets some buttons or icons will ...
Suggested by: Aliday (25 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 10 Feb Comments: 6

Mac models with notch hiding resource counters

I have a 2021 macbook pro m1 with a notch in the top for the camera. This unfortunately hides some of the resource counters like wood and food (not sure exactly which ...
Suggested by: Charise (16 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar Comments: 8
Won't be fixed Mac

Lost sound

Completely lost sound for this game. I've changed no settings. Uninstall/Reinstall didn't help. No other game has this issue. Suggestions?
Suggested by: StormHammer (23 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 10 Jul, '25 Comments: 6
Approved

Game crashes at Victory screen or when starting Bifrost

Each time a conquest, story or any single player mode is won, the game crashes.
Suggested by: Melissa (15 Aug, '25) Upvoted: 21 Jan Comments: 30
Approved

Monuments of the Ancients (Rimesteel deposits not respawning); Seed 311471522

Hello, i played a game on Conquest with Snake, currently have the mission "Monument of the Ancients" had all Rimesteel deposits mined and got to 30, but now i have a ...
Suggested by: Real Leif (11 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 21 Mar Comments: 9

Borgild won't attack Hrimgandr, sig's story chapter 9

I've crafted wurmslayer, but Borgild won't attack Hrimgandr at all. Thing to note is that Borgild was dead when I crafted Wurmslayer. That could perhaps have ...
Suggested by: Hans (22 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 08 May Comments: 1
Fixed Story

Achievement Bug - Some are unlocked without doing it

Solo Mode, Windows 10, DirectX. It's been a long time since I played Northgard. I played one game with clan of the squirrel because the game forgot I had completed ...
Suggested by: Reem (09 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 15 Aug, '25 Comments: 15
Investigating Achievement

conquest progression not saved correctly

I play conquest for couple missions.after a relog i find some arent saved then if i try to do them again they dont save again what can i do
Suggested by: CorneliusHogglefart (14 Jan, '24) Upvoted: 27 Jan Comments: 8

Game crashes on conquest

After the recent patch my game crashes during conquest consistently. Has become unplayable
Suggested by: Mark R (22 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 4
Dev Noted Crash

Out of memory

When selecting the game settings (difficulty, clan, etc.), it gives an error at launch: D:\Projects\zdev-archive\hashlink\src\gc.c(410) This happens way too ...
Suggested by: Anastasiia (24 Aug, '24) Upvoted: 13 Jan Comments: 4

GOG Linux Standalone Version shows random behaviour in context of expeditions and silver claims

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm), x86-64, Linux 6.1.0-25-amd64 Northgard: latest Linux native from GOG 3.5.15.38668 Launcher: with/without Heroic Launcher 2.15.2 ...
Suggested by: hexachlorcyclohexan (28 Sep, '24) Upvoted: 21 Dec, '25 Comments: 3

How to train your wyvern conquest IMPOSSIBLE

Not only are the insane amount of enemy troops and AI attacks endless and too many for a begining game in year 800 and 801 and 802 where every clan sends at least 2-6 ...
Suggested by: Dean (05 May, '23) Upvoted: 12 Oct, '25 Comments: 3

Far From the Eye - Impossible Seed

Hi there, I was on a conquest run, and found myself in a "Far from the Eye" mission with no Yggdrasil tile. Which, you know, is a bit of a problem as the only ...
Suggested by: MidFellow (10 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 3

Game freezes when i click on anything new and even when i just sitting without any actions

Game freezes when i click on anything new and even when i just sitting without any actions in menu. Yesterday was without any problems, so i dont know what ...
Suggested by: Iskander (09 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 18 Feb Comments: 2

Stuck at "Almost Ready"

1 - Dedicated Server and Peer-to-peer 2 - Windows 10 3 - Direct X and Open GL 4 - This happens any and every time I have tried playing multiplayer, both ...
Suggested by: Matt (01 Mar, '24) Upvoted: 27 Apr Comments: 2

Ox Conquest "How to train your Wyvern" produces too many enemies on Extreme

1 - Conquest 2 - Windows 10 3 - OpenGL 4 - Yes, I've played this level on 5 different maps using the Ox clan 6 - 989839609 Medium Maybe I'm just bad at the ...
Suggested by: Fran (05 May, '23) Upvoted: 17 Sep, '25 Comments: 5

[Owl Clan] Stutters occur when playing with the Owl clan

Even before the 'Trade and Prestige' update came out, I noticed that in the game with the Owl clan (you play for the clan or your ally), stutters start to appear over ...
Suggested by: Varcklen (14 Dec, '24) Upvoted: 14 Jan Comments: 0

Snake Scorched Earth lagging

1 dedicated server/ conquest 2 win 10 3 any 4 signy burn any area all of player in lobby got screen freez for 1-2 sec and another screnn freez when it end. 5 - ...
Suggested by: Alexandr Medvedyuk (11 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 8

since Definitive Edition cant play ranked FFA anymore ... just endless cycling after ready

since definitive edition cannot start ranked FFA games anymore. all other ranked modes are fine. so when I start a ranked FFA it starts a endless loop like: 1) ...
Suggested by: Sir (08 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 03 Jan Comments: 6

Multiplayer Lobby Queue Is bugged in an endless Ready loop.

Unfortunately, Multiplayer needs some support. Readying up. over and over for a over day now. First Multiplayer was crashed the game until the Definitive Edition ...
Suggested by: SSJ4 Goku (05 Dec, '25) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 1
Approved Multiplayer

Bifrost Multiplayer game broken after second phase of Gulveig

Playing final Bifrost mission in multiplayer with 3 people, we encountered an error popup that "the game might run unstable from now on" or something while fighting ...
Suggested by: chamelopi (09 Oct, '24) Upvoted: 08 Apr Comments: 1

AI completely passive on created maps

After spending almost 500 hours on the game I decided to jump into the map editor and create a map of my own to make it more interesting. I usually play with my ...
Suggested by: Michaela (29 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 20 Mar, '25 Comments: 2
Dev Noted AI Mod

Mid-late game unplayable

During mid-late game when my population is 50+, the game begins to lag in certain ways. The menu is completely fine, system is not stressed at all, but in game all ...
Suggested by: Lobbity (16 Feb, '25) Upvoted: 10 Jan Comments: 1