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Valheim

2021 · Iron Gate Studios · ~60h to finish

Death drops your gear where you died, and where you died is usually the swamp. The stamina economy keeps fights short and losing them expensive.

survivalsandboxactionPCXbox SeriesMetacritic 89
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty5.6STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

Price on Steam

$29.99

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Obscurity
6.5
Grind
5.7
Punishment
5.6
Strategy
5.5
Learning Curve
5.5
Reaction
4.5
Execution
3.8
Puzzle
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Punishment drops 0.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.1 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally-generated world inspired by Norse mythology.

Where to go from here

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