Originally posted by Tomoko:

Originally posted by Bioshocked ツ:

What did you actually like about the game, because it seems you dislike most of it.
Not trying to attack you on that, just curious since I wouldn't know where to start.

Nono, this is actually a fair point to make. What I like about this game the most is more of the minecraft-y or terraria-esque feel. The idea of starting with literally nothing and building up through progression, gathering resources (although despite me liking that, I'd prefer it to not take a solid 10 minutes to mine a single "ore patch"), and I think the building is actually really nice, if a little awkward to manage at points without experience.

I don't remember the combat much, at all. I haven't written anything negative about it in my review, so it's probably good enough to be passable, but generic enough to be forgettable.

I remember having a few tiny qualms with the UI, but overall I believe it was nice. Again, from memory.

Overall, I think what would make me re-visit this game would be more content between the absolute start and the bosses, and between the bosses.
It previously felt like you'd start from nothing, grind up skills (that you could permanently lose on death) super slowly and get a few mediocre items, then battle it out with a long-winded boss battle. Then, you'd unlock mega powerful items for that stage of the game, spend hours grinding those materials to get full sets of items, then go find the next boss and fight them. There just wasn't really anything in between that boss-grind-boss loop.

Terraria, for example, has "new" biomes to explore the moment you beat a boss - New enemies, new items, new equipment, new challenges. It's not a boss rush back-to-back with grinding pushed in there.

I genuinely don't know what to make of this comment. You liked starting with nothing and building up through progression, but you don't like gathering/crafting to have new stuff to take on the next boss/biome.

You find the building very nice, but there is "nothing between boss-grind-boss".

Beating a boss *does*, in theory unlock a new biome with new enemies, items, equipment and challenges. It's actually pretty neat because you can go into these biomes without being gatekeeped by the boss.

Based on your description I have no clue why Terraria is great to you but Valheim is bad. In any case, doesn't look like it's a game for you. And it's not a matter of "yet". It will never be for you.