Tribal Trouble is a fast paced humorous real time strategy game with a fairly simple yet very challenging gameplay. Your job is to lead your cartoonish and somewhat clueless kinsmen (be it Vikings or Natives) to victory by eliminating all other tribes.


The battles take place on an infinite number of randomly generated islands with varying terrain, climate and size. 2-6 human or computer controlled players can compete at a time and join up in teams to cooperate. Every time you start a new game, you can change a number of parameters that will affect the terrain shape and resource distribution. This allows for billions of different maps, and you can always replay a map by writing down its unique map code.


Winning requires successful managent of your tribesmen: You must construct quarters and armories, defend them with watchtowers and make sure your peons constantly bring in new resources to produce more weapons for the armies you keep sending at your enemies. The fighting can get quite frantic when hundreds of units start throwing spears and axes at each other - add to that a few maniacal chieftains with magical special attacks and the chaos is total. The computer generated maps feature lots of height differences and narrow passages to allow for some tactical opportunities when planning your attacks and defense lines.


Tribal Trouble contains a set of tutorials to quickly teach you the basics of the game. Once you are ready for some real mayhem, you can compete against computer controlled players of varying difficulty or join an online game to test your skills against other human players.


Tribal Trouble also features a campaign mode with an ongoing storyline: In the first part you must help the Viking chieftain Fjorleif as he and his recently stranded men attempt to loot some of the local Natives' gold statues. In the second part you switch roles and guide the Native chieftain Ngumba and his tribe on a pillaging trip to The Cold North in order to get the statues back and teach those Vikings a lesson about stealing other people's gold statues.


Independent Games Festival 2006 finalist
The judges of the Independent Games Festival 2006 competition have picked Tribal Trouble as one of the five finalists in the Technical Excellence category.

Tribal Trouble among GameTunnel's Top 10 Games of the Year 2005
The games review site GameTunnel has awarded Tribal Trouble a fourth place in the Game of the Year 2005 roundup. Other awards include a second place in the strategy category, a third place in the graphics category and a fourth place in the multiplayer category.