Originally posted by Dulgrim Grudgebearer:

Originally posted by Black Puppet:

Lemme be real, once they do this you will be back here saying that you have beaten that part of the game and wish there was more just as much as you are doing it now.

Yes, the game does not have a literal ton of content, that is true. But the game isnt just a "Play through it" kinda game. Build up your world, make some dungeons and so on and so forth. You are ignoring a fair few aspects of the game by just going for "whats needed". Might as well try to speedrun the game at this point :o

well the story of this game would betray you then because from what the runestones and hints tell me is the point of going to valheim is to survive slay the allfather odin" enimes and accend to Valhalla so it seem like a play through game

Yes and in Minecraft the end of the story is to slay the ender dragon and free the end. A literal credits scene plays then and there but the game isnt over past that point.

Fallout 3 has employed the same thing and so did Fallout NV if I remember correctly (tho maybe not the latter? Has been a while) These are sandbox games of your own story. How you get to the end and beyond. It has story aspects for you to follow and focus on which is good but it isnt the only thing that you can do.

In fact let me give you an example of a game that is doing exactly that, no story and therefor is slowly failing (but not just because of that). 7D2D. The main gameplay loop is the same it always ends up being. They wanted to implement a story but there is none. Its just pure and utter survival which can get boring pretty quick for some, me included. And I have ADHD on top of that.

And then lets turn to "The Forest" which has a story and the story is the soul focus and now you can see in which category Valheim plays.

Its not a story focused game. Its not a pure survival game. Its a laid back sandbox game with a focus on building and survival and has story elements.