Run around eat berries and punch necks. Solid 10/10 gaming experience right there bra

If Balders Gate was out of early access I would drop this game in a second.
Right now it is a turtle race between these two games getting finished.
So this is the game that is most playable in EA.

exploration but still limited to the content we have in the year or so of development... when we can FINALLY get the updates we're waiting there will be planty of things to explore (new biomes and revamp of the current ones)... anytime they will be dropping Mistlands and hopefully it will deliver the HIGH expectation we have for the update, as we're waiting for it for more than a year!!! DEVS don't disappoint our HIGH EXPECTATIONS!!!

Originally posted by kestmobthe:

exploration but still limited to the content we have in the year or so of development... when we can FINALLY get the updates we're waiting there will be planty of things to explore (new biomes and revamp of the current ones)... anytime they will be dropping Mistlands and hopefully it will deliver the HIGH expectation we have for the update, as we're waiting for it for more than a year!!! DEVS don't disappoint our HIGH EXPECTATIONS!!!

You are dooming yourself for major disappointment by having too high expectations.

And make no mistake you speak for yourself only.

To each their own. Enjoy what you enjoy. But the facts are, this game has many building pieces and the development team has clearly invested into making a strong building system as a part of the game content. If you are not creative (nothing wrong with that), then you will probably feel this game is lacking in content and maybe even grindy.

Based upon what you said about yourself, I would not recommend Valheim.

You can kind of think of it like a looter shooter.
You pick up items off the ground, you auto pick up drops from enemies.

Stuff you pick up triggers your 'memory" to open up crafting and food items.
Progress is tied mainly to food and food crafting upgrades.
Also to Biome resources like metals for armor and weapons.

So some crafting and building is needed but you can be fairly minimal in approach no need for it to be fancy or anything as long as it works/provides cover/comfort etc.

You gain XP for all your actions as skills.

Skills go up to 100 but with the game unfinished if you had a character with skills at all 100 it would feel a bit over powered.
Normally you can enter the current "last" biome with around 40 to 50 in most skills and not have an issue.

Game is due to add more biomes over time for free until the game is complete.

Death causes a 5% skill loss.
You drop your gear and can recover it where you died.

A rested bonus gives a skill gain increase, so staying rested helps there as well.

Some people just don't get along with this game... *shrug* To each their own. There are some straight action titles available for those people.

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Hy i thought about trying this game, but since im not very good with building games and not very creative i wonderd if there is anything else to do than collecting mats and building some stuff.

How is the Combat, Character Development and PVE in generell in this game?

of course you can also fend off hordes of one hit mobs wchich attack you literally all time while u gather resourcess for crafting lol ,also u can gather food resourcess thru week wchich will feed u thru 2 days adventure *thumbs up*

Originally posted by gerald2:

Originally posted by Bonebreaker:

Hy i thought about trying this game, but since im not very good with building games and not very creative i wonderd if there is anything else to do than collecting mats and building some stuff.

How is the Combat, Character Development and PVE in generell in this game?

of course you can also fend off hordes of one hit mobs wchich attack you literally all time while u gather resourcess for crafting lol ,also u can gather food resourcess thru week wchich will feed u thru 2 days adventure *thumbs up*

A week gathering for 2 days adventuring?? That's pretty much the exact opposite of my experience in normal play - now some hardcore modes do tend to approach that but that's not what the OP is asking about.

I mean for the ones you can't farm, just mark the spawn places on the map, drop a portal in the middle of a bunch of spawns, and run through once a week or so. Farming isn't so bad either if you use something like spiral planting instead of trying to make the most out of an area - also allow for 10% wastage, and plant both food and seed crops at same time - allow an extra day to allow for some of the too closely planted crops to mature and just show up once every 4 or 5 days depending on crop to harvest and replant.

Now if you don't want to do any taming or decide you only want serpents and fish or something - well that's on you. Since H&H the difference between best and 2nd best foods (or even 3rd best in some cases) isn't all that critical except perhaps for boss fights.

Combat is: Block with a shield, poke with a stick. Try anything else you'll be quickly sent back naked to your bed. Bows are for deer hunting.

Beside building ?..... Hmm.... cutting trees ?.... and mining rocks too !

BTW none of this is optional, because you need buildings to make tools.

nah it's a bland pile of crap

Nothing attacks your structures unless you purposely hide in them while being chased, its pretty much just for looks and storage. The crafting is just collecting a list of items.
You really need to play with a group of friends for it to be extremely fun and addictive, especially when new. Don't play this game if you hate having to mine and chop from time to time because there is a large amount of it, as well is managing and organising large amount of items

Honestly, if crafting and building is not your thing, or survival sandboxes in general, I would not buy this game, unless you don't mind spending the money (it's really cheap right now).

You probably might be better suited with straight action titles. Which Valheim is not.

Combat is pretty straightforward, you block, you parry, you hit, you dodge. There is no real character development besides getting better food and better armor. There is no real PvE besides battling monsters, currently five bosses and some dungeons.

That said, this game features an enormous world, that is procedurally generated from a random "seed" any time you create a new world. It is a lot of fun exploring this huge world, sailing the fair (or not so fair) seas, where you really feel like a viking of yore.

You gather, you mine, you sow, you harvest, you craft, you can build anything from small huts over bigger farms to large stone houses or even castles.

You explore increasingly more dangerous regions of this world. You need to be cautious and extremely careful, because if you are not properly prepared, you die quickly and you will lose EVERYTHING that was on your body. Yes you will wake up naked in your bed.

This sounds daunting at first, but once you know how to fight, how to prepare properly, you will slowly become the master of this world.

I honestly can't think of a better game right now where I have spent almost 1,000 hours in.

Just be prepared that a very large part of this game is not spent fighting. If that, PvE, progression and boss fights is what you mostly care about, this is not your game.

For me, it's (almost) my dream game come true.

Edit: To add onto what @blprice61 wrote: This game is just simply beautiful and stunning to behold. Don't bother about the rough pixelish look. Just look at those beautiful sunsets, or fog, or the storms, or the blizzards... I could go on and on.

Heaps.

If you like what you see on the store page, aren't fussed about the graphics, sound & game play, read a couple of reviews (overwhelmingly positive from a broad audience) and have played a few survival games before, (or even if you haven't played many survival games before) you might like it.

The combat is really easy to figure out, very basic controls. The building & collecting mats is a bit time consuming at first, but as you progress & start killing all the bosses, you unlock more items, that allow you to proceed to the next new biome. (but that isn't restrictive in terms of exploring, building & fighting mobs in said biomes)

Character development is decent, every action you do, be it mining, tree cutting, or using certain weapons have a skill level of 0-100 for each, so the more you do something, or use something like a club or axe, you get better at it over time.

You don't have to rush bosses (some do) but you will get heavily rewarded for being overprepared if you take your time, and plan things out, can make things really easy on yourself. If you try to rush to get things done asap (like speed running bosses or wondering into a very difficult biome at an early stage) will be punishing, to say the least.

the Pve is good.

I spend very little time actually crafting anything, gathering stuff so I can craft what I need.. well that's about 33% to 50% of the game (depends on stage). However, even in the earliest period you're liable to get attacked by a horde of wild boars or baby alligator things so combat is a part. So is exploration which often results in combat and/or running away and hopefully not dying.

At each stage you have to defeat the boss of that stage (called biome in game) in order to progress - usually has some widget or thingy you need to go further but also gives you a 'Forsaken Power' which may (or may not) be useful. Travel is a big part of the early game but in the second biome you'll unlock portals which will help for everything except ores and ingots.

As far as creativity required.. eh.. mostly early on I just remodel broken down shacks and stuff I find. There's guides aplenty for that, and you don't have to do all that much if you don't want to. Biggest thing is getting the stuff to make the things that let you make weapons, armor, food, potions (meads/wines in game), and tools. Its pretty straightforward and you automatically get new recipes for stuff when you pick up the materials for them.

There's a lot of atmosphere in the game, like I just built a ship to sail around the island I was on, only takes a click once you have everything. So I started off, bright shining morning, sailing down around the south west coast... at least that was the plan. The weather turned to mist, I somehow got too far away from the coast and ended up in the ocean, it got dark and stormy. I made towards land as quickly as I could because that's monster weather in Valheim and I really wasn't prepared.

Didn't see any monsters but banged the ship up on some rocks in the storm that I didn't see either. Finally said the heck with this, turned around, fought the wind, tacked and rowed back to my starting point. Didn't get back till after dark, was cold wet and miserable. Beached the boat and salvaged it for the materials, Got back to my safe house, dried off, and slept through the rest of the night. Fortunately there was no raid that night.

So, hard to say if that's too much crafting for you and not enough PvE and monster fighting. For me it's a good balance.

Good Luck, Have Fun!