Your inner-viking will rejoice!!!

Excellent game for solo play.

Several opinions on this. I play solo and I like to build, so my play style is slow. It really comes down to what you like to do and what you want in a survival game. If you don't mind grinding for resources to build structures and over prepare for your next fight, then playing solo is do able. Fighting can be very tough in solo, but many have done it. Everything will take longer and you will more than likely die many times, but if that is something you are prepared for, then again, solo play is do able. If you don't like grinding or you like rushing through a game, then solo play may not be the best option.

Solo is good. Read the guides if you get stuck. Be prepared to make daring rescues of your stuff after dying. Place portals or outposts close to where you are exploring and be prepared to make daring naked corpse runs, or keep extra food and gear around for that purpose. It is doable. Each new biome will reset you back to newb status, so don't get over confident.

Originally posted by Rodrick:

Hi, So, Good for solo play? I have no one to play with ad enjoy playing by myself. Is this good like that? Thanks!

it's absolutely not good to play alone, the level of grinding is incredibly high, and the difficulty of facing the adventure becomes stressful and no longer fun. I recommend reading my review (in Italian unfortunately, but there is google translate)

Originally posted by Tigro:

Originally posted by Rodrick:

Hi, So, Good for solo play? I have no one to play with ad enjoy playing by myself. Is this good like that? Thanks!

it's absolutely not good to play alone, the level of grinding is incredibly high, and the difficulty of facing the adventure becomes stressful and no longer fun. I recommend reading my review (in Italian unfortunately, but there is google translate)

I agree with the unbalanced grinding but the game combat is really easy on the opposite.

Be patient. If you are prepared with equipment and nutrition and a contingency plan for when (not if) you die then solo play is a very fulfilling experience. Valheim is not fast food. It is a 7 (someday 9) course feast to savor slowly.

the grinding feel a bit much for solo but it works .

Solo feels tedious and unbalanced later into the game imo, so I play with mods

Yeah it's perfect, that way all the resources you find are for yourself, instead of finding empty crypts and dungeons everywhere lol

It does get a bit lonely at times though.

I would recommend just challenging yourself more. Defeat Eikthyr with just a hammer and campfires or something with minimal food. I am enjoying vanilla and I am trying out a challenge I came up with -- no parrying, and only hammer, axe for cutting wood, and a knife for weaponry.

I just defeated Eikthyr by applying a ton of fire damage to him with a lot of campfires. That's all I did. I ran behind large rocks when he was about to do attacks, then surround with campfires and pulled him back and forth until he died, which didn't take long. I saw a professional speedrunner do it, but they didn't die. I died three times...only because I don't have his attacks memorized when I am bare naked and trying to set fires. I was more focused on just my stamina bar and trying to kite him solo. But yeah, just gather rocks and wood on the ground and then craft a hammer, get a knife, hunt some deer, summon Eikthyr and have some fun :)

I also have made an effort to make my base only where a previous structure was and I can only build so far. I'll adjust the rules for myself accordingly with each biome.

But I'm going to try to do kind of a "nomadic / semi-pacifist" playthrough. I plan to sneak most of the way in the plains and such and just try to get different mobs to attack each other. I am not going to build many bases, and I won't really try to upgrade my gear so much.

Basically, just trying to find out the more entertaining plays, not necessarily the more sensible ones.

Then I got a permadeath one I'm going to do

And the wolf army one

Then there's the seeds my buddy and I play on co-op where we have slow played (every biome we got to, we built some big bases), gathered lots of mats (especially wood and stone lol), and just enjoyed the time. 250 in game days so far, and we just started taming wolves to build an army to take on Yalgath(sp?) because his AoE attack is just dumb, so we plan to overwhelm him with the wolves (hopefully 2* when we summon him), and get him down before his spawn animation finishes.

Essentially, a couple of these ideas I got from youtube playthrough videos. It can be fun with or without mods. Essentially you can do anything in the game if you think about situations before taking them on. Like building workbenches everywhere you can and hide them, then you can almost build anything anywhere, trap mobs with wood walls and kill them with the pike spikes. Idk.

you can even do extreme pacifist and have to run and evade mobs to nab surtling cores and such

Valheim is your oyster.

totally viable solo. takes longer and is more difficult of course. but totally viable.

"Then I got a permadeath one I'm going to do" oh ♥♥♥♥ bro, that seems scary :D

It's good for solo play. I enjoy it more for co-op, but it's more the social aspect of it. Exactly what concerns you about being able to play the game solo? Is it the difficulty level or something else?

669 hours, almost all solo.

If you like survival crafting games, you should enjoy this, even solo.