Valheim is great, if you can persist. It will be brutal to you. You will be enjoying your time, things are going well.. the sun is shining, and you have lots of resources. You've nearly finished your first cabin, and you think you have things pretty well figured out, yet..

As you travel to a new part of the forest, something 1 shot kills you. You aren't sure what it was. Your skills all lose 5% points. Every swaying branch in the wind makes you flinch now.
You have to try to get back to your stuff, but where is that thing? What was that thing? At this point, you think.. maybe I should have a second set of gear? It might help with corpse runs.

The list of tough lessons goes on.

Most people I know in real life ragequit within the first few hours of gaming because they get killed once, and they don't think corpse runs are fair or fun.

They usually add that Valheim requires grinding out progress and farming a lot of materials, while proceeding with caution. Thesesame friends of mine are super into other action RPG that just start you with a super-hero that becomes even more ultra super, and does it all with amazing flourishes and fancy light particle blooms as you mash the A-button over and over and think they're the bestest gamer evah! You know, witcher, castelvania, assassin's creed, dragon age type players. Just mash mash win.

Valheim is not a button masher.

This is not a flashy game. It is not going to make you feel like a hero. It will make you grind your teeth in bitter satisfaction over your hard earned milestones, but with every step forward, you look back at your past foes and see them weak, and easily broken.

Having an ally will help, but also you will face more, and harder foes for it.

In sum, expect to play this game for over 20 hours before you are no longer 'wet behind the ears'.. but to see the whole game, even in early access, expect to play over 200 hours.

It's on sale now too, so go get it. Check it. Let us know how you do.