Dark Souls ? This game is a baby to Dark Souls, hell its too easy to call 'brutal' in any sense.
Its too forgiving, has hardly any real bite and ...lets be honest, you can all too easily run from any fight.
Dark Souls is unrepetantaly hard, it does not care if you die, heck DS 2 has a kill counter (stupid as that is)... you need to hit the wall repeatedly, die repeatedly until you win.

This game is more like have good food, best gear, top pots and you win for 90% of the time... no this game is way too easy to call Dark Souls.
I have barely got past the first area in any DS game, and I got all 3 ... meanwhile in Valheim I have got a hall, a nice dock and .... you get the idea, the thrust of the game is not to be DS hard and more build a nice hall and if you have time kill the boss.