Should You Play Valheim in 2024? My Answer | Valheim True Beginner's View

Yes.

The stamina system made me refund the game. cant stand it

Can i play it solo or do i need friend?

DAyym. That voice.

I love Valheim also and have played it for a few years off and on. Try “Enshrouded” as it’s a new game in early release. So much interface is pretty much identical to Valheim, except it’s better in graphics and play smoothness. It’s like the Big V on steroids.

Steam says I have played Valheim for 2400 hours. I have played solo, with friends and on dedicated servers and have helped running one. I have two things why I love the game, firstly the combat is great and lot's of weapons to choose from. When Ashlands update came I started solo with knife and stabbed through everything and when I got into mistlands I changed to magics. After killing Queen I got ready to embark to Ashlands and my friends joined there and we all had the experience of new area and new challenges and learning how to overcome them. And the other and main thing is the building mechanics. Pieces are good and you can make amazing builds, but when you get into mods things become even better. When use mod that rotates pieces 360 degrees around any direction, more build pieces and no structural integrity you can make anything you can think of.
Should you play Valheim in 2024? Absolutely.

This game hooked me about two weeks ago. It's very addictive.
From RL experience, I've found the logging and ocean surge mechanics impressive.
My only negative has been a boat glitch that ruined one character.
Thanks for the video.

I can't believe it's still in early access. I bought the game in March 2021 and checked today and it's still in early access...

Very nice video. For those wondering, this is 100% spot on. The game is solid and it's best played with friends, although I have a solo game going because my friends can't always join me to scratch that viking itch

The game is great upto Mistlands. Mistlands is such a game changer, the environment is lethal, the enemies are lethal, and they come in big numbers. Players who have a "I will never retreat" philosophy.... lose. But for most its the games fault, they refuse to change their tactics.

The building on this game is really good with so many ways to build and creativity being your only limit

I've been playing since it first released. It's in my top 5 favorite games of all time. The sense of adventure, wonder, and exploration it provides is unparalleled imo. The souls-light combat is fun and rewarding. It's a truly beautiful and wonderful game.

I don't like it, controls are clucky and delayed. Resources are artificially scarce, the grind uncalled for. 3D terraria but worse.

Brother! YOU SOLD me ! This was such a great video my friend, props to you. One question... Is ther a lot of freedom in building Structures and such, compared to other survival titles out? I am gonna show my wife this video!

We're currently playing ARK and played 7 Days before that, but I am looking for something to GRAB ME... like The Burning Crusade did many years ago now.

Thank you again for a fantastic Intro to Valheim!

I haven't seen my mates for over a decade due to life getting in the way, and this game bought us back together like good old times. I love turning my hud off grabbing a boat and taking in the scenery. The lighting in this game is amazing.

Very well said — you touched on so many of the aspects of Valheim that make it great! It's always nice to see Valheim getting the appreciation it deserves ☺ I think it's an absolutely gorgeous game and I'll constantly catch myself pausing while I'm sailing on the ocean or standing at the top of a mountain to just look out at the landscape 🤩

Over 3200 hours. Need I say more?

You mentioned that Coffee Stain made a great combat system.
FYI: Coffee Stain is just a publisher. And the developers are Iron Gate Studio.

As a 80s kid, Valheim is the game we all wished could exist back then while playing Diablo, Zelda and Baldur’s Gate.

Easily the best game I’ve played. The gameplay is great. The soundtrack alone makes the game. Building is limited by your imagination.

The graphic choice make the game so immersive and lets the player enjoy a good game instead of pushing thru a bad game with great graphic like nowadays.

And it’s fun to play with my kids. We have a world named "fathers&sons". It’s our best map. Basically a bunch of dudes who had kids and kept gaming :P


Thank you Iron Gate for THE best game!

the lumberjacking is so gooooooooood and I love building so much the system is great cause you keep getting new toys to play with in construction like stone and core wood and finewood furnature ect.

I love the freedom it gives..

One of my Favs

Superb game

Valheim is awesome the biggest plus in this game is world generation

Awful combat where you have to be on the same level as enemy or hit is not counted, too many people praise a game that can't even do basics right...standards in gaming have dropped so far people don't even know where they are.

solid video, you know I'm something of a Valheim enjoyer myself

I just started playing a month ago and it is my favorite game

Yes, the most fun in gaming since the Amiga days

played both vanilla and modded. This game needs to be modded. Makes it 10x better. The season mod makes the game more dynamic and interresting to play.
Monstrum mod makes the game more challenging, there are several mods that makes this game hella strong. The basic vanilla game in it self tends to be a bit to repetative, but with some mods u get QOL (Quality of life) and more building materials that makes building and setteling mroe fun. My advice is to test a play trough without mods first, and then after you elarn the game you can mdo it for a more fun experiecne.

The freedom of building and exploration is unreal. I love this game.

I like the option to choose the progressively challenging biomes as well as the option to choose to lay back in the meadows and wipe out graylings like mosquitoes.

I've got 2500 hours, and it was my favorite game for a while, but theyve been phoning it in. Game is less and less stable, and ashlands didn't deliver.
Play soulmask, they care about their game.

My favorite thing is trying to cause the largest possible tree felling chain reaction.

Honestly if there is a time to play it, it's now. The Mistlands and Ashlands biomes have really rounded out the late game and provided lots of good reasons to build anew with new materials, it used to feel a bit pointless to rebuild in the lategame but not anymore. With the final biome on it's way, now is the best time to have a couple playthroughs and some build experience under your belt. Will only increase the quality of your play, and there's even ways to update/regenerate sections of your world for new updates.

Great voice... You should be doing voice work of some kind

Just sad I'll never get to play this game for the first time again.

This game is incredible for 1gb.

No other game has such fun mechanics, animations or building like Valhiem.

Started in EA now 1200+ hours later …. Still playing! And on PC the Mods are amazing

Indie games like this are the new AAA games

Modded? Yes
Vanilla? No

Skal !!!

Valheim is a great game and the first time I played it with friends back when it came into early access we were blown away. But I think it has a few glaring issues that you didn't get far enough into the game to see. First off the game starts to borderline on tedium at many points so be ready to spend HOURS of time mining/searching for RNG dungeons and sailing that stuff back. The sailing is really cool at first but becomes more of a chore and loses its charm. Plus there is really nothing to do in the ocean after a certain point. The quality of life need major improvements. There is quick stack but no stack to nearby chest or craft from chest feature. Your armor, food, and equipment take up most of your inventory space leaving little room to pick up other items. Late game especially your inventory feels like its always full and cluttered. The worst part of the game for me is the AI. They seem to be programmed to attack and then do a frustrating long flank circle on you while you get swarmed by other creatures who do the same thing. The bosses are cool but many of them are damage sponges that have resistance to certain types of attacks, so if you want to play as a specific class you cant and are forced to craft different items to get by. At times the game feels unfairly punishing, if you die you drop everything and if your portal breaks you need to craft a new boat and sail back to your body. This can actually take hours of time and at points makes you wonder if its worth it. If you want to keep your sanity PLAY WITH QOL MODS and change your world settings to fit your playstyle. It makes the game more tolerable and fun imo. Only reason for this rant is I think the game need to be improved by the actual devs since its been out for almost 4 years now.

I absolutely adore Valheim. What I never see spoken about is just how well the tiered progression through each stage is brilliantly balanced. You can stay at one level for as long as you like and prosper, but if you take the step to challenge yourself against Trolls, Draugher, Fullings, or Seekers then you are rewarded across all aspects of the game - gear, visuals, and build opportunities

Yes

Is it worth it? i mean yes, i spent 500 hrs in it. Is mistlands and ashlands good? not really. Mistlands never was fun, and felt a bit broken, the enemies were annoying and you just wanted to get it over with. A lot of the stuff felt unfinished, like the dwarves, so much opportunity to make something interesting. And in the end you had to kill em aswell as everything else in this game. Ashlands was a pain and another biome i just wanted to get over with.

I am 45 and i spent my gaming years on rts games and mostly starcraft. I stopped playing games for many years and occasionally i played a short adventure game and maybe not finish it even. I discovered Valheim about 6 months ago and something felt warm inside me when i saw the gameplay on a yt video. Now i can honestly say that Valheim is the love of my life when it comes to gaming. I cant say all the reasons but every bit of it is perfect. I even enjoy just walking in its majestic wolrd and gaze at the beauty of it. I never liked a game so much.

I have 350 hours in game (solo), and I've just gotten to the mountains.
I spend wayyyyyy too much time building.

I'm working on a full village :)

after playing the game till the end a few times i found out how easy it was to mod and how that changed the game for me

I love building. Been playing since the beginning.

Favorite part is easily the combat, how open ended it feels and the things you can accomplish with multiple people. Been a couple years now since I've had someone to play with, but solo is still fun. Will always be better with friends though.