I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Best $20.00 I ever spent.

Is Valheim grindy? Not for me. It's a survival game. You gather resources and build stuff that makes you stronger while mobs of varying deadliness try to kill you. You arrive with nothing, the prey of boars and greylings, and slowly become the most dangerous thing in the world.

Just now I have a windmill and two stone ovens, a spinning wheel, artisan table, fermenter, smelter and blast furnace working away on the base I built on top of a major hill. I am sitting by the ovens, which must be watched, enjoying the view of all that industry and the meadows beyond. Excuse me, the bread is done.

Same thing in Subnautica. You can't explore the big wreck until you can build a radiation suit. And you can't do that until…I'm not sure, I haven't got that deep into Subnautica yet. It looks gorgeous, though.

My huge gripe against Valheim is that other great games I bought on sale are languishing. I'll get to them eventually, no doubt.