Originally posted by Lazarus:

ok thanks very much for the help.i was just concerned as one of the first games i bought have servers and then when the publisher closed them down ,the game couldnt be played anymore so when i saw servers mentioned,i was just wondering if it was the same deal with this game.thanks again

On that game you mention, it sounds like servers were only a thing created by the devs and all players connected to those servers.

With Valheim, the devs don't provide servers that they run. All servers are created by the players. And it is very simple if you want to play by yourself. You just basically pick create character in the menu, then create server is just a button that says that. No nothing else to do other than giving it a name before you hit play after that.

Even playing co-op or multiplayer is just as simple, except you can add a password people need to know to access your server.

The other main difference is that games with dev runs servers are up all the time. With Valheim, if you create the game, the server is only up and running when you are playing.