Valheim

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Same day: best PL #15, worst CN #59 · 14 markets collected

US · last 30 days

Hours played at review time, across 3.4K reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Honestly, Valheim has a reputation for being one of the best survival crafting games out there, and I am inclined to agree. Originally I never understood the hype of Valheim, the graphics weren't what I was used to and the controls were awkward to me at first, but I imagine the latter was due to me originally migrating from Xbox and its controls. Once I locked down on it, I was immediately addicted. Gameplay: The Gameplay of Valheim is absolutely amazing, I love the progression system of progressing by Biomes, genuinely one of the things I have become addicted to and really wish to see more when it comes to other games of this nature. The combat can be punishing and so can dying. I can't say I am a souls player, I will never do good in souls-like games, yet I still enjoy the combat of them. Now the reason I bring up souls-like games in comparison is because the combat can be a bit like it, I think the bigger comparison is positioning in this game, any wrong positioning can really mess you up, especially when in each of the different biomes, which is where the biome progression truly shines, become the gear you come in with from the previous biome helps but doesn't make you underpowered, and the gear you gain from the current biome makes you much more prepared and able to handle what it throws at you but not overpowered either. The food system is simply the best in any game of it's genre, I honestly cannot praise it enough. Food systems in other games are more or less bland, just there to take the place of a healing item. This actually incorporates valuable and good benefits with having food and drinks. I have gave the game a lot of praise, yet I do have certain gripes with it. My biggest gripe is how much busywork there involves with so many of the things you need to do, a little more than I am accustomed to, and I have played modded minecraft where some of the mods are just tediously busy. There's nothing wrong with having to explore to seek resources or dungeons. But it is annoying when you have to explore due to bad luck RNG so you can find a dungeon that points you to the boss or the boss itself. I had to look for hours and days, looking for mountains and then discovering those mountains didn't possess anything for the mountain boss or the ore needed. Exploring to find new biomes, resources and materials is fine, its good, but exploring to find the same biome over and over again because its either not tall enough, wide enough, possess anything, can be extremely tedious. Which adds into the mining and ore transportation, which can also be annoying at times. Overall though, this is a very solid game, a very great game, one of the best I had the joys of playing. A lot of what I said can honestly be customized, you can allow ore transportation through portals, you can tone down difficulty or death punishments, you can modify how much resources you're given. Its truly a sandbox, everyone plays their own way. Me? Im bad at games yet I like challenges, so I like things to have a flair of challenge. Tedium is one thing, Challenge is another. I'd highly recommend this, I don't think you'll find a better game out there, and I can assure you if you like it, you'll love it, and when you love it you'll want a game to scratch that itch and it'll be hard to find.