Viking Children’s Games — 12 Minigames for RPG Maker MZ

It’s the long winter feast, and the village children have challenged you to their games.

Viking Children’s Games adds 12 complete minigames to your RPG Maker MZ project. They’re spread across a firelit longhouse, a frozen fjord and a summer meadow. Win a game and you carve its Saga Stone, a runestone with a true story from the Viking Age, with the player’s name carved into it in runes. Collect stars to rise from Newcomer to Jarl of the Games.

Part of the MZ Minigame Collection. This plugin is one of a growing library of themed minigames for RPG Maker MZ, from board games and puzzles to sports, casino and crafting. Mix and match to fill your world with things to do.

👉 See them all: https://itch.io/c/8090415/mz-minigame-collection

Everything is drawn in code, so there’s no extra art or audio to install. It plays with keyboard, mouse and touch.

🛡️ The Longhouse

• Hnefatafl: the Viking “king’s table.” Defend the king, lead the attack, or play two-player. Computer opponent at three strengths.
• Merels: nine men’s morris against Sigrid or a friend.
• Rune Carver: read and carve all 16 runes of the Younger Futhark, by clicking or by typing.
• Riddle Contest: riddles and poetic nicknames from Norse poetry, with a mysterious one-eyed wanderer.

❄️ The Fjord

• Bone Skates: race Astrid across the ice, pushing yourself along with a pole.
• Knattleikr: time your swing and drive the ball through the open lane.
• Ice Fishing: wait out the nibbles and strike on the real bite.
• Longship Rowing: pull in rhythm with the crew.

🌿 The Thing Meadow

• Glíma: read your opponent’s moves in Norse wrestling.
• Hacksilver Market: pay in silver by balancing the scales (mental maths).
• Spear Toss: set angle and power, and mind the wind.
• Skald’s Memory: repeat a saga that grows longer each round.

Features

• Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty in every game.
• A Saga Hall hub menu with stars, best scores, titles and the Saga Stone collection.
• A host character in each game who cheers your good moves and teases your slips.
• A rules card before each game, which you can reopen any time; the game pauses while it’s open.
• Optional music for each region, with the map music restored afterwards.

For developers

• Plugin commands: Start Game, Open Saga Hall, Unlock Game, Carve All Stones, Reset Progress.
• After each game the score (0–100%) goes to a variable and a pass/fail switch is set, so events can react.
• Script calls: VikingGames.best(id), stars(id), hasStone(id), stoneCount(), rank(), start(id, {difficulty}).
• Region names, hall title, pass threshold and the main-menu entry are all plugin parameters.

Real history, kid-friendly
Each Saga Stone teaches something true: tafl boards found in graves, the gaming board buried with the Gokstad ship, bone skates found in York and Birka, why longships had no drummers. Where the original rules are lost (tafl, knattleikr), the game says it uses a modern reconstruction.

Requirements: RPG Maker MZ. Install by placing VikingGames.js in js/plugins/ and turning it on in the Plugin Manager.

Terms: free for commercial and non-commercial projects. Credit appreciated.