I always start a new game with each major update so I don't miss any of the new stuff.

I don't play MP games anymore because, quite frankly, I can't tolerate what the gaming community has evolved into over the last 25ish years. Everything is ultra competitive, there's a handful of 'correct' ways to play and everything else is provably wrong, and the community is slightly less toxic than a vat of Ebola. Valheim is pretty chill once you know what you're doing but it's challenging enough to keep you on your toes.

So for me, Valheim is a solo game that's mostly about basebuilding and is just hard enough to keep it from getting boring (like No Man's Sky and Factorio eventually did). I craft all the things, I build a fancy base or two, eventually I get to the end and put the game away and wait for the next big update.