Startup studio, a company formed by former Funcom and Artplant developers have revealed that their debut mobile/ PC tower defense game, Trolls vs. Vikings will be hitting the app store in January 2014. Check out the trailer for some highlights of the gameplay.

Set within Norse Mythology, Trolls vs. Vikings sees the player defending Troll villages from the pillaging Vikings along with support wfrom Dwarves and several other creatures from myth. Trolls vs. Vikings focuses on tactics, player interaction and boss fights to get the player more involved within the tower-defense experience. 

Here are some of the principle features: 

• The Craziest Tower Defense Experience, Period – Play as nature-loving Trolls, who must defend Midgard, their magical homeland, from fierce Viking invaders.
• Extensive Story Mode – Advance across 70 levels spanning the seasons, each one providing new environments, challenges, achievements, tactics, bosses and hilarious new enemies to fight. Plus, each difficulty mode generates different stages!
• It’s Got It All – Master 20 Troll types, each with their own strengths and weaknesses to battle over 25 different types of Vikings of ranged and close-combat masteries, as well as divine boss fights against Thor, Odin, and Loki himself!
• Tower Defense… Evolved – Movable towers i.e. the big hulking Trolls, massive set pieces, strategic resource gathering, dynamic in-game tile system, and many other small and large tweaks to the beloved gameplay formula.
• Multiplayer Campaign COMING SOON! – Social features will mark a first for the genre with both real-time and turn-based multiplayer matches. Soon, loop in friends with the seamless social sharing and comparing system, or challenge anonymous Troll activists in both live and asynchronous gameplay.
• Labor of Love – Perhaps the most important “feature” of all… and it’s not even a feature. The Megapop team shares a deep reverence for the tower defense genre; their top priority is to make a game they personally love to play!

So, will you be trying Trolls vs. Vikings at its January launch? Let us know what you think in the comments below.