Valheim has Ruined Survival Games for me

Valheim has truly made its mark on the Survival genre and it has done so without a big budget or a Triple AAA Studio behind it. I love Valheim, even all these years later, the more you play, the better it gets! I really hope you guys enjoy the video and thanks for watching!

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@IronGate

[dds-jr]

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.

[mildlyinsanecajun]

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.

[DoItWithADance]

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!

[andrewshoe]

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.

[Blakkrazor]

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.

[matthiaspeeters]

The fact that to this day I can play in the meadows for HOURS alone, still fascinates me to a degree no game ever did for me

[KamramBehzad]

In 1989 I got my Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering. In 1995 I got my Master's degree in Civil Engineering. In 2022 at the age of 56 I killed my first troll in Valheim. God! The sense of achievement was incredible! This morning (2024, I am 58) I started a new game. I thought I'd try passive enemies for a while, see how that works. My first death was by a tree. And they are the most passive beings on the map.

[kirstenwyatt]

The repeat experience of finally conquering a biome, feeling invincible, then venturing into the next biome and getting your ego deflated again, realizing your best is barely good enough all over again.

[oggrindo]

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

[dooderman]

Valheim somehow is a game where you spend countless hours grinding for small amounts of loot but it’s still satisfying and fun, not an easy thing to do. I feel as though most of these hardcore survival games drop the ball when it comes to presentation, so they are super hard games for no reason other than to be hard, valheim seems like it might be that way but it isn’t, the gear is so badass and makes you so much stronger that grinding for an hour for one piece of gear is satisfying because of how much value it has to the player. The pacing of this game is next level, you start so incredibly weak but get hugely noticeable upgrades straight away, yet as soon as you reach the next biome you’re back to being “weak”, yet you still feel like you’ve made progress. It’s a very well made system.

[gank_flankenstien]

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.

[TheFearsomeRat]

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.

[DaftRabbit]

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.

[trrtrtrtdtd]

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

[brianross]

It's a rare game that draws me in for 1000+ hours. Valheim was able to do that for me! I've played through the game numerous times. Modded some playthroughs. Vanilla others. It's a gem.

[michaelyork]

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.

[Mesenteric]

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.

[ShadowWolf]

Alternative Title of this Video: Loveletter to Valheim, a Game that will be lovingly remembered for decades

[mendiganina]

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.

[ARKAZO]

I had the most epic battle against the Dragon boss, we built a castle, prepared defenses, and boom, the dragon destroyed half of the castle with one hit, in that moment the thematic of the fight changed, instead of defending the castle, the objetive was to survive. Provably one of the best gaming experiences I've had.