Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

No I don't remember any trailers. My son gifted me Valheim back in September 2021, and I've been playing it nearly everyday since then, and loving every minute

Ominous voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsBxoVbGf4E

Focus on brutal + dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynFR397bNSQ

Originally posted by Sly-Scale:

These new casual Viking whelps are not here to do Odin's bidding. They're there for the same Odin-damned reason they ever play video games: get the Cool ♥♥♥♥™ and disregard everything that isn't the Cool ♥♥♥♥™.

People can play whatever game they like as long as they know what they are getting into. It's not like I expect Iron Gate to go 180 on their design just because the game got popular among more casual players. If people get disappointed because they thought it was more casual that might be bad, but a lot of casual players will probably play it in multiplayer with friends and build a lot of stuff and the fights are a lot easier that way.

Just let people enjoy what they enjoy. It's not like a change to the store page makes any "non-casual" any less of a viking (which none of them are) for playing that game or whatever your reason is to look down on this. In my opinion the old trailers were overselling the difficulty a lot and Valheim isn't some super hardcore death simulator with no rest for the wicked. Once you hammer some wooden shelter together the game is rather chill and you can survive easily with berries and mushrooms and a stick to defend yourself, without any sense of urgency that many other games have.