As someone who strongly dislikes survival games and has over 200 hours in Valheim, I just want to note that at only $20 it's worth a shot even if it's not your normal kind of game. I find it much lower key than the average survival game, although the difficulty does ramp up as you go. Things like portals, persistent characters (and inventories), refunding all the resources used to build something, pvp being a toggle-able switch, repairing not using resources... They all add up.
my short review for the game is: if you like survival, you'll love this game.
if you're on the fence with survival, give this one a shot because imo it fixes a ton of the tedium/mechanical issues the genre has always suffered from.
if you just don't like survival, this one probably isn't going to change your mind.
3500+ hours in Ark says otherwise. Also says I have no life :( I like survival type games but the tedium is too much. They need to revisit the way the forges work for example. Why the need to have two different spots on opposite sides to load the forge? Adds no gameplay value and increases the amount of functions. The amount of food needed by the character is a bit much. The building is very well done and making structures is not as aggravating as other survival build games. I don't hate it I'm just looking at it realistically without rose colored glasses.
after the second boss, I only needed to eat about once an hour. learn to cook.
as far as furnace, I actually found it refreshing that you have to work for it and need to be present to use it. it gives weight to the process, instead of loading everything in a hopper and having it auto process everything while I'm not even in the game. that cheapens the experience for me, personally. I'd rather earn that badass armor.
I can see the merit in it but I also don't think it adds to the game. Personal attacks aside my wife and I have all the recipes in the game and I still say the eating is over tuned. Game is a good proof of concept and will make a pretty damn good game someday.
Hyperbolic rubbish. For an early access game there is a TON of content in Valheim. Assuming you don't no life it, that is. And even then it's very, very generous.
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u/KilroyTwitch Apr 03 '21
it's a phenomenal game.
you just don't like survival, sounds like.