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Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Action
Valheim is a brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally-generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft powerful weapons, construct longhouses, and slay mighty foes to prove yourself to Odin!
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Epic, richly built, meticulous and demanding.
1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers.
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IGNLen HaferSep 202610/10Valheim is the oath of the ultimate survival crafting adventure fulfilled, with a gorgeous art style, deadly dungeons, charming homesteading mechanics, and a breathtaking scope.
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TheGamerAllyson CochranSep 20265/5 starsAfter more than 300 hours, I know Valheim well. Though somehow, it can still surprise me. That is why I suspect I will keep playing it for years.
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Giant BombChuck ZimmerheldSep 20265/5 starsIron Gate Studio’s Valheim is the best multiplayer survival crafting game since Minecraft. Its mastery over texture, lighting, audio, and mood on display here elevates it into a painted vision of the Norse afterlife. This and the game’s meticulously designed systems meld together to create a romanticized survival experience.
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Hardcore GamerJames CunninghamSep 20264/5Valheim is an absolutely massive survival adventure, spanning a large randomized world containing danger and beauty in equal measure.
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Nintendo LifeKen TalbotSep 20268/10Valheim 1.0 is finally here and it brings an atmospheric, challenging, and compulsive persistent world to Switch 2. An epic survival-crafting game with solid fantasy worldbuilding, it's a fascinating hybrid. Performance issues and uneven crossplay blight the release experience, so let's hope Iron Gate keeps an eye on this version with future updates.
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IGDB rating 8.7/10 from 300 ratings.
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