Valheim is INCREDIBLE – Indie Spotlight #10



Valheim is an incredible, massive, convenient survival game that manages to improve upon concepts that I honestly didn’t even know could be improved. The game is an indie title in a procedurally generated mythological Viking world that will hold thousands of hours of enjoyment for millions of players.

This is a story of success that cannot be ignored.

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44 thoughts on “Valheim is INCREDIBLE – Indie Spotlight #10”

  1. I wasn't sure about this at first but a buddy convinced me to give it a try. 4 or 5 hours later and I'm hooked. I like survival games but don't typically stick with them because it takes so long to feel like you can accomplish anything or build anything cool. This game doesn't do that. Highly recommend it!

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  2. Me and 3 other friends have been playing a server for over 60 hours now.

    It's amazing how bringing ore from one island to another becomes some long journey, with boat treks across separate continents.

    This game has a really great balance of making everything an adventure.

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  3. Ok, excuse me?
    "Painstakingly crafted?", "Minimum frustration???" – these are words antithetical towards the Valheim.

    Valheim has beautiful honemyoon fase – in the beginning everything is new and amazing ("wow, the bonfire smoke is acting like real!", "wow, a giant troll is walking in the forest, how exciting!"), but the more you play the more you realize how extremely boring and tedious this game actually is and then suddenly you ask yourself – why did i started playing what is essentially just another Rust? Oh yes, i thought it was something else.

    First, "Painstakingly crafted?" – the game has terribly constructed resource and crafting progression – there are a lot of chokepoints in it that simply are impossible to follow without internet AND there is ENOURMOUS amount of tedious repetitive grind. For example, the copper ore weights so much you are unable to farm it efficiently without cart, but the cart is built with bronze – the metal that is the result of smelting copper and tin, so you get it after you learn to farm copper and at the same time as you get portals (which are built from fine wood that is only farmable via bronze axe) – but you can't transport metals and ores through portals because then the cart would be useless, so you have to run around wasting time on the thing that you progressively enjoy less and less until it becomes a literal tedium.

    This doesn't mean gameplay can't be enjoyable – depends on your tolerance of repetititveness and how much time you willing to spend on unproductive tasks – what i mean is that "productive" time spent on the game is the one where you receive enjoyment and excitement (from, for example, exploration or finding something new or interacting with very well made systems) and "unproductive" is time spent on grinding that is no longer gives you joy, but you have to do it because it holds you from being able to explore more.

    The problem here is not that you have to farm and upgrade in order to progress, but how boring and repetitive that farm is: biomes are enormous and offer same things in every point of themselves, which means there is no point in exploring them after you get everything they offer from some farming at their borders – the only reason to go into them are dungeons and they are extremely repetitive and uninspired, but you have to farm them for more time than they can keep your interest.

    Second, "Minimum frustration???" – when you die you lose EVERYTHING. You can retrieve what you lost IF the tombstone hasn't been despawned (a bug many reported) OR if this is not an overpowered zone that had no effort to tell player to be at least aware that he is entering it (i'm talking about Planes – why goblins hit harder than giant trolls???). If you lose tombstone you lose days, weeks of grinding and essentially is forced to repeat them, not mentioning how boring and tedious running for your corpse is – you almost never die near your bases or portals so it is another time waster, which is essentially a punishment for "mistakes", but still.

    The game has no direction and proper understanding of what makes grinding good, but all of the fluff around it makes people believe that Valheim offers something new and exciting when in reality it does what everyone has been doing for very long time and still does it poorly.

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  4. I like survival games and crafting and building, but this game lacks FIRST PERSON and the inventory looks like shit. I won't be playing it. I'm bored of games that have me walk up and access a storage box and put numbered fucking items into it

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  5. I've been playing the fuck out of this game all week. It's AMAZING. And it blows my mind it was made by like 5 people. We need MORE games like this, and less AAA games. We need to flock to games like this. I convinced 5 other people to pick it up and we've turned into this big raiding party that runs a village and terrorizes the black forest.

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  6. It's sadly PC exclusive so I can't crossplay with some of my friends. Hope it goes to the playstation and xbox so I can play with them. It does scale well with lower end hardware though so that's a good thing.

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  7. Question . How good is this game for solo players? The way he discribed it a multiplayer isnt a "must use" but everywhere I check no one plays without a team. Im considering buying but dont wont it to be another Ark Survival evolved scenario (I got invited to the game by a clan which proceded to disband next week and then I had to play solo which was pure bs and VERY grindy)

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  8. Here's how to carry metal through portals:
    1. Make a 2nd server, you don't have to build anything there
    2. Go and farm Metal in your normal server that has portals built
    3. Logout and go to the other server with the same character and leave all the metal there
    4. Go back to your main server and go through the portal
    5. Logout and go to the 2nd server to pick up all your metal
    6. Profit

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  9. I played 30 minutes of it and i liked it, then my computer crashed hard and did not turn on again for a few minutes. I will try the Game again after the crashes are fixed.

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  10. when WOW came out i always thought " what will games look like in twenty years as they continue to improve game play and graphics."
    seems they have not evolved at all not one damn bit….

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  11. I think my only problem with the Game will be the replay value.
    The first playthrough or even the second with Friends is just fantastic and great.

    But i think when i saw all Biomes, Items and Enemies i dont know if i ever wanne come back and play through everything from scratch.

    Thats why i still come back and play some 7 Days to Die, Dont Starve or even minecraft as a pure Survival Game.

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  12. I mean…. it is the a game where you and if possible multiple friends forge your own story. A tale can be told by the ages inside a video game, a game where is what MMO meant, harsh world where only you and your buddies conquer and tamed a world or die trying, one falling tree, one broken ore vein at a time.

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  13. Me and my gf playing it for a few weeks now and a pretty much amazed. Today we want to tackle the second boss, but we've taken it quiet slow overall anyway. I am really looking forward, especially to the modding community down the lone. 🙂

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  14. Never really found interest is survival games, other than Minecraft and raft. I assume its due to their more ridged structures. (Minecraft by the confines of its blocky nature and raft by its confinement to the waves). Tho I greatly respect what this game has accomplished. Interested to see how this game progresses

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