Originally posted by Jazara:

Hey dudes!

I know I know that you beautiful humans are most likely biased towards Valheim BUT! as someone who has NEVER played a survival game in their life, would you recommend I deep dive straight into this or for those who have played it, should I jump on the hype wagon and go try V Rising first?

Appreciate you taking the time to answer <3

You've already gotten Valheim but I'll cover a few things:

1. V Rising and Valheim are completely different games. V rising has no single player currently(you can only make a server and just play by yourself instead), it is survivial on the rails, it has official servers divided between pvp and pve(which still has pvp elements due to the current coding). It is a top down arpg survival lite really.

Also there is no offline play currently with V rising though devs say they may add it in the future but require an online once authentication for it.

2. Valheim has both single player and unofficial server play only. Most servers are password protected because in valheim you can dig and build up terrain and do other things that can grief even pve servers. Building is not on the rails. etc. etc.

3. Content wise, if you're more comfortable with diablo style skills and play with light survivial then that's V rising. If you want a more survival challenge oriented game with very liberal building but with some simplicity, sailing etc, then Valheim also may fit you better.

4. V risings map is (by comparrison to valheim) small and its also static(everything respawns and towns areas are the same. Valheim's maps are seeds which are procedurally generated and very large(so large sailing and teleports are needed for most). Some server communities also use multiple seeds in a cluster situation to have a building/town map and then multiple resource maps they wipe/renew every few weeks to accomodate the player needs.

5. Valheim is buy once and that's it. Devs have said they'll never charge for updates/dlcs. V rising has 2 dlc (cosmetics) they're peddling that cost in total more than their base game itself.

6. Valheim's pace of development is considered slow by some but is being sustained in what they're doing by the studio. Stunlock studio has a reputation for not sticking with projects for too long. Their hitting with 2 paid dlc's at EA release also may reflect their same thinking for v rising too...

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Since you got the game, if you hit challenge issues, use youtube, guides this forum etc. The game can be extremely easy if you do and doesn't need to be overly difficult otherwise.

Good hunting to you.