I knew pretty quick that I was going to love this game: a vast, varied open world to hunt and be hunted in, a world that is procedurally generated promising endless replay-ability. What's not to love?

The scenery is almost as good as the artist-created scenery of scripted worlds. One does run across the occasional tree growing out of an unsplit rock. I was out hunting and heard a greydwarf brute's polite greeting coming from somewhere around a big rock. When I could not find it, I split the rock with my pickax. Yup.

That sort of thing doesn't bother me. For the most part the pointilist scenery is to die for, and I have, many times.

The point being that you will probably know in plenty of time whether or not Valheim is for you.