Surviving Fimbulwinter Quest Walkthrough

Surviving Fimbulwinter is the first chapter of God of War Ragnarok's (GoW Ragnarok) main story. Read on for a detailed walkthrough, list of rewards, tips for completion, as well as boss fight strategies!

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Surviving Fimbulwinter Walkthrough

Surviving Fimbulwinter Objectives

	Objectives
1	Head home Keep going along the snowy path with your sled and follow the button prompts that pop up on your screen. ▶ On-screen buttom prompts ▶ Binding the Navigation Assist
2	Track Atreus Turn left and back down the slope to find a campfire. Destroy the ice blocking the gap and squeeze in to reach Upper Wildwoods. ▶ Inflicting Frost damage
3	Defeat Bjorn ▶ Bjorn Boss Guide
4	Return home with Atreus Interact with the bed once you get home.
5	Defeat Thor ▶ Thor (First Fight) Boss Guide
6	Return home to Atreus Once you're in the Realm Between Realms, keep moving forward until you reach the exit gateway.
7	Follow Atreus into the forest ▶ Dealing with Frosted Health
8	Defeat The Huntress ▶ The Huntress Boss Guide
9	Follow Atreus into the forest ▶ Obtaining Winter's Bite
10	Return home
11	Follow Sindri

1. Keep an Eye Out for Button Prompts

You will encounter events with button prompts as early as the prologue that will require you to push specific buttons within a timeframe.

These can determine the outcome of a fight, like how you gradually lose health against Freya if you miss or took too long to press the correct button, so keep an eye out for these and react quickly!

2. Bind the Navigation Assist on Your Touch Pad

As soon as you're able, pull up the Settings menu and bind the Navigation Assist on your Touch Pad shorcuts. Using it while exploring moves the camera to your next destination, kinda similar to how the Compass works in the previous game.

3. Inflicting Frost Damage

Inflicting Frost damage on enemies slows their movements and make them easier to hit and avoid. Fill up the Frost gauge for a much better and longer lasting effect.

4. Use the Blades of Chaos on Frosted Health

Some enemies have Frosted Health that makes your Leviathan Axe's attacks to be ineffective. Burn them with the Blades of Chaos first to make them vulnerable!

5. Obtain Winter's Bite

You will obtain your first Runic Attack, Winter's Bite, after defeating The Huntress. Runic Attacks are items that can be slotted on your weapons.

Use their unique skills to quickly deal damage and inflict Stun, Burn, or Frost!

Boss Strategy: Bjorn

Parry the Yellow Ring Attacks

Attacks that emit a yellow ring will break your block, but they can be parried. Parrying such attacks, by pressing L1 right as the attack hits, will interrupt them and inflict Stun damage to the enemy.

On the other hand, attacks with a red ring are both unblockable and unparriable, so dodge away with X.

Lock on Using R3

Locking on your enemy by pressing R3 allows you to track their movements and make it easier to aim your attacks. This is especially helpful on boss fights where you need to watch out for their powerful moves.

How to Beat Bjorn

Boss Strategy: Thor (First Fight)

Use the Pillars

During the fight against Thor on the bridge, you can interact with the small pillars around and swing them at Thor to deal a decent amount of damage.

How to Beat Thor (First Encounter)

Boss Strategy: The Huntress

Throw Your Axe at Her Horns

At some point during The Huntress fight, Atreus will mention that her horns are glowing. These are actually weakpoints that you can exploit by throwing your axe to stagger The Huntress for a few seconds.

How to Beat The Huntress

Surviving Fimbulwinter Quest Rewards

God of War Ragnarok Related Guides

Main Quests Walkthrough

List of All Chapters
Surviving Fimbulwinter	The Quest for Tyr
Old Friends	Groa's Secret
The Lost Sanctuary	The Reckoning
The Runaway	Into the Fire
The Word of Fate	Forging Destiny
Unleashing Hel	Reunion
Creatures of Prophecy	Unlocking the Mask
Hunting for Solace	The Summoning
The Realms at War	-