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Wellness Wednesday for March 29, 2023

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Has anyone else here played Valheim? It’s a Viking themed survival/combat game, with a cool and relatively simple building system.

I got it at prodding from some friends, and am having a blast. My partner has even joined me and it’s easily the most fun game we’ve played together.

I thought I had lost the spirit of gaming since I haven’t really found a game I’ve loved in years - turns out I just wasn’t playing the right games. Valheim makes me feel like a kid again, it’s excellent. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a game.

Played it with my group before it dissolved due to kids. It was OK. Somewhat too grindy. We never made it far. I found it pretty, nice, but also a little too boring for my taste.

Fair! I actually love the grind for resources, I find it incredibly relaxing for some reason. Maybe you just didn't have enough grinders in your group.

Oh, we had a division of labor with two resource grinders and crafters. I focused on exploration. The fourth player, IIRC, mostly did hunting and cooking.

It was alright, but require more endurance in coordination and planning than we were regularly capable of.

I loved it (though I'd have said it was a building game first and a survival/combat game as the afterthought; perhaps I just wasn't pushing fast enough into harder zones to keep up a challenge). But in that genre my kids still prefer Minecraft and Don't Starve Together, so that's where we are again lately.

Good to hear! Yeah I think some of the appeal is that the game offers a lot of different paths for different people. My partner is more of a builder, I’m more into combat/progression, but the game blends them together extremely well.

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