Tap the game to open it fullscreen. On a computer, Esc exits; on a phone, use the ✕ button.

How to play

Wolves and giants advance from both sides. Tap the left or right half of the screen, or use the arrow keys, to strike the nearest enemy on that side. Fire giants take two hits. Every enemy that reaches the hall costs a life; hold out for 42 seconds.

The story behind it

In the Völuspá and Snorri’s Prose Edda, Ragnarök is the final battle in which many gods die and the world is destroyed and then reborn. The victorious dawn in the game is made up. Read the story in Ragnarök: how the Norse poems tell the end of the world, and what comes after.