Valheim has Ruined Survival Games for me

NOTHING will compare to playing Valheim with my best friend for the first time. We're both pushing 40 now and that was an unforgettable experience. The immense feeling of venturing into the unknown, of exploration and adventure. I don't think we'll ever recapture that tbh.

I still remember the first time me and my buddy rode a boat in this game. We were heading off to kill the Elder. The music was already amazing but then we passed through a narrow river with the sun shining through the treetops in front of us and a thin morning mist flowing here and there. Combined with the music it felt like we were on an actual adventure. Everything just came together in that moment in a way that's just hard for words to describe. I'll never forget that experience.

Valheim is the only game where sitting in a boat traveling in a straight line not doing anything is fun

Creeping up on 4k hours played, no mods, Vanilla Valheim and I love it as much now as I did when I first launched it. Love finding Seeds with Supercontinents to start on so I can slowly make a road along the entire coastline using the time spent there scouting and gathering mats the whole while.

My most memorable gaming moment in recent years was getting chased by trolls for the first time and excitedly yelling and running away with friends. Or getting 1 shot in front of my group by a mosquito. You captured why this game is such an experience. The timing of its release was also very fortunate, being at the start of Covid lockdowns. I'm not sure I'll ever get a group of 10 friends, all over 30, to invest so much time in a video game together again.

3:13 Smoke is probably one of my favorite parts about Valheim, it encourages more creative building like you said, but it also can allow for some more interesting base set-ups defensively, like what if you deliberately set your base up so all the smoke pools in a small room full of valuable items first before slowly being filtered out by a single hole that can barely keep up with the amount of smoke you produce, and it will somewhat obscure the room it fills providing some indirect protection on worlds with PvP if your friends try to shank you.

True words spoken. you can feel the love investied in the game while playing it.

Me and my friends spent 8 hours digging a trench so our boat could cross our main island instead of having to go around it… the most memorable time I have had in a game in a long time!

Facts, it's an example of what a survival game should be. You don't mind the difficulty and penalty to mistakes, when it's presented so sensibly and comfortably. There are also options for adjusting ALL of them as well. You can go Immersive Viking Experience with no map, portals or mercy. You can go creative mode where you have free reign of all materials you've found once and build in this excellent build system! Such a fun game, just played over vacation and built a tribute to Ironforge in the mountains with my friend. Amazing experience, full of triumph, loss, and friendship. All done in vanilla normal so every stone of that place was mined by us or the Stone Golems. Made several rooms embedded in the mountain's rocks, sculpting stone walls. Revisions on numerous rooms due to more resources being available, or the Stone Golem dropping in on our ceiling and trashing the living room... We brought it light, we brought it comfort, and we brought it trophies! Stay Rested my Vikings.

I played this game a while ago and wasn’t really into it but watching this video made me try it again and realize I just didn’t understand what it was about. It’s amazing and exactly the type of game I’ve been hoping someone would make. Thank you for making such a good video explaining it.

I said this recently on another video, and I'll say it again here. Valheim is an experience. Not just the first time either. Every time you start a new playthrough, it's a completely new experience in so many ways. This is such a hard game for me to truly explain to people who have never played it. Not the base gameplay mind you, but what you get from it. It is a mood, it is passage, it is struggle, it is elation, it is beauty, it is achievement, it is chill time, it is all these things and so much more. Hardest game experience to explain ever. Everything in that game I want in future survival games (can weather effects and overall ambience ever be this good again?) I am spoiled.

Valheim is reallly really really addictive. even when you manage to break away and then decide to play it for a minute, you end up playing hours again.

Valheim is the only survival game I like. I think two of the biggest parts are that I don't feel like I'm having to interrupt more interesting activities in order to keep my character alive, and I can build interesting structures with relatively few resources. In other survival games, I tend to build the bare minimum because it feels like a hassle, either because I'm constantly having to interrupt my work to stay alive or gathering resources is a tedious grind. Valheim isn't perfect, my Valheim group fell apart once we got to the Mistlands because we all found it too frustrating, but up to that point, I was having a great time.

I'm on Day 1010 in my original world, and have built a massive Seaside Stronghold of black marble, stone, wood, and iron that is unique and functional. I have not seen quite the level of creative building that is available in Valheim, and have been playing with friends from around the world for over 2 years. The game is unique unto itself. Waiting for Ashlands. Nice Vid.

My favorite moment was when we found a fuling for the first time. It was wandering in a dark forest spot (probably attracted by other dark forest monsters) and since it looked so silly and small, we (my friends and i) were fully confident that we could kill him. We've just got our bronze tier armors a couple of hours ago and we felt invincible... we were wrong... very wrong. I ran towards him with my mighty bronze shield as i was attempting to parry him, instead, got instantly vaporized from a single blow. 10/10 experience. We laughed so hard for probably one hour. My only regret is not being able to record it a the time.

A while ago I started a forever world on it. I previewed some seeds to pick one I liked but haven’t looked at the map generator since making the world. I have four characters that each live on that world, north east south and west and they have a hub by the spawn so I can share stuff like food between them. You can really play valheim however you like and I think it’s possibly my favourite game

Just had to leave a comment. This was a great love letter to Valheim, and I absolutely agree! I've got 1000+ hours in vanilla and I still feel like there is so much more to experience. My favorite game genre is survival, and I feel like Valheim is the best of the best. Of course, there could be improvements made, nothing is perfect. With the recent addition of the new settings sliders, I feel the replayability has been sent into the stratosphere. And of course, there is always the huge world of mods. This was a very high quality video, I subscribed, and I look forward to checking out your other content. You should have more subscribers! Happy New Year!

Great video! We're all a bit starved for content right now while we wait for Ashlands so it's nice to be reminded why we love it so much. 😀

3:29 My solution was using the roof tiles to leave staggered gaps at the top. Even though a block exists in a given space the game can identify gaps and let smoke out. This let me build more period correct viking huts and just hide a couple clever gaps and i never have to worry about smoke buildup.

Playing with friends, we found out our tombstones eventually despawned, and that happened many many times. It was always after a long period of time though. We literally had to kill Bonemass again to get our silver locator thingies again once.