Valheim

I'm an older player. (in my seventies), but it was my sons who introduce me to the game. Though them have since moved on I continue to use Valheim on a regular basis. I mostly use the game for two things. Keeping my memory active, and for building things. I've built lots and lots of shelters of various kinds, and am continuing to improve the quality and techniques. To do so I pretty much operate with the development commands to make things easier for doing what I like best. I continue to learn how to protect the shelters and myself from the various enemies. I like the graphics which have improved since I first started. For real gamers, it offers some great challenges.

Dear people at Iron Gate. I absolutely love your game and have spent many more hours than I would like to admit playing it. So would you Please use some of the small funds you made off of the millions of presales to hire some interns/modders to clean up your technical/design debt?
You can only hide behind the "prerelease" tag for so long, and that time is well past. If you know that armor sets work better without a cape, why is the weakest armor set (the troll set) still the only one requires four items? Why are you giving us the ability to have fancy swimming trinkets, and fancy swimming potions, but we still can't dip our head under water to collect the nails sitting in a 6ft deep dock. You gave us a combat overhaul, but we still can't aim up or down, somehow making Spear and Atgeir the Worst weapons for fighting leaches when they should likely be the best. Every new craftable item you make adds to the never ending list of items in my crafting station that I can't search through and isn't organized in any logical way. You gave us new trinkets! So now with the sword, shield, bow, arrows, hammer, 4 armor items, 3 foods, mistlight, and now Trinket Literally half my inventory is filled with essential items because you refuse to incorporate extra equipment slots for those type of items.
All of these could be addressed and likely corrected in under a month. If you hire the modders who have already implemented these systems, you could probably have it fixed in a week. Instead I assume you will continue to SLOWLY replicate these systems yourselves, much like you did with the Odin Bear mod. Which is fine. The new bear is beautiful, the armor set is neat, and I understand why you want to be the ones to implement new things into your game so that they meet your level of quality control, but the bear, the gear, and especially the meat, feel disconnected form the rest of the game. Why is Cooked Bear Meat the only recipe related to this cool new animal? Even wolves wont eat it's meat raw. How many years will we need to wait for you to correct that?
I recently lured some new friends into playing with me, and they are having a blast, but it is exhausting explaining why these problems still exist after you have had half of a decade to address them. This game is wonderful, and expansive new biomes are great, but can you please spend some time cleaning it up!?
P.S. - A Hildir setting that disables night spawns caused by late game bosses would be nice. It's hard to get new friends to play when they get murdered by Fuelings every night.

I said I would write a review on Valheim once I reached 1000Hrs, so here I am.
I fully recommend everyone buy this game to play and judge for yourself, This game is great playing by yourself but, Valheim is one of if not the best Co-op game I've ever played. Nigh Perfect.
If you're a new playing thinking about buying this game just remember it might start off slow, boring for some, to progress but boy does it speed up.
When it was first shown to me all I wanted was a PC to play it, I bought my PC just to play Valheim on. My friend and I have a world we have played since we started, and it’s got over 1500 days recorded on it. He builds massive castles and fortified townships whilst I stick to a more Viking Longhouse village type build set, the mix of both in my opinion is perfect. I have built lit up roads connecting all our Towns/Villages. I love this game so much I got a full back tattoo of Eikthyr’s bust and a river scenery underneath it, pain was worth it.
I could write many novels of my friend and my adventures we've had in this game.
Pros:
• The Scenery of this game is beautiful in all ways; the graphical choice I find it to be simplistic yet perfect. From the fog, rain, wind, and waves, and to the blinding sunrises and glowing sunsets.
• One of my favourite aspects of the game is the sailing from island to island looking for loot and expanding our locations, the long rides on the ships are perfect for conversing about our days. Turning on PVP on the boat rides to punch each other to level up blocking and whatnot. We enjoy going out on oceans at night to intentionally hunt down serpents for food and revenge.
• The building in this game is one of the best things the game has to offer, each player you meet has a different build style and technique which expands beautifully in this game, from Castles to Villages to simple shack designs, the possibilities are endless.
• The crafting progression in Valheim is how I think a lot of survival games should be, don’t tell me what I’m missing, let me figure that out myself. Each boss killed, each item picked up is all newly discovered crafting recipes. I find that to be perfect.
• The cooking is very thought out, I like the many different options for food items and the many different perks that come with them.
• Boss fights are always fun to do no matter how much you’ve played. We had another friend join and we made him kill all the bosses up to Moder himself, my friend and I just stood around blocking and watching.
• The lore is really in depth and rather large when you get into reading the Lore Stones
• Great selection of weapon types to choose from, perfect for each players preferred playstyle.
Cons/Improvements/Things I would like added:
I’ll start by saying that it is very hard for me to find cons for this game as I don’t really think of many things in the game as a con, for some people it might have cons, but for me and my friend to few to mention.
• Oceans are lacking content, I really hope the devs make the oceans plentiful. More sea creatures to fight would be great and rival Vikings on boats that will attack you.
• This one is from my friend; He wants more interior adornments. Larger selection of rug shapes and sizes, more hangable objects for walls, and custom banners for each faction/settlement you make.
• Stronger support beams for building, like a blackmetal beam.
• NPC Vikings to populate our empty settlements, give them jobs to do. So our places don’t look barren.
• Carts for Loxes would be a great addition, I have many Lox in a farmstead but not much to do with them. I’d love to take them into the Black Forest and fill carts with ore to cart back. If I want to move my storage rooms from settlement to settlement Id like to use loxes instead of portals.
• I would really like a 64* beam/roof pieces, (1m base 2m high) for more of a barn shape of roofs, and when I build longhouses, I would like them to be the wall supports.
• Ship customisation, colour of sail, more storage, being about to have a workbench on it would be good and have an option of the sail to become transparent when sailing.
I have read many reviews of the game and a lot of them mention the slow release of updates of content and it has never bothered my friend and I. The game is fun no matter what, we just continue to improve our characters and build more and more. Like I said at the start this game is Nigh Perfect.
If you've read this far down, sorry for the blabber but its hard to write down what I'm thinking. I have a lot more to say but don't want to bore. Thanks for reading.

LOVE this game - been playing since it's first inception with and without my grown up children. The Devs are amazing (I follow them on discord!), the game is just beautiful and the music just soothes any soul. Every update is just like a new game has been released, and has to be my top survival of all time. Thank you Irongate Sudios; you've made a 51 year old grandmother love survival games xXx

Valheim is a peaceful Viking survival game the same way drowning is a peaceful swimming activity.
This is accidentally one of the best designed survival games ever made, which is frustrating because now every other game just looks lazy.
One of the best structured progressions in the genre
One of the cleanest and most addictive gameplay loops
Proof that simple systems layered properly beat bloated overdesigned trash every time
The brilliance is sneaky. Nothing is complicated on its own — food, stamina, weather, building stability, sailing, enemy AI — all simple. But together? Suddenly you're running Nordic logistics while being emotionally abused by nature.
You don’t notice the depth. You just notice that you’re cold, wet, underfed, overencumbered, hunted, and your house collapsed because realism.
Nordic Suffering Tycoon features include:
Chop wood
Die to wood
Eat food
Still die
Craft armor
Die slower
Sail confidently
Sea serpent says absolutely not
Lose everything
Walk home across three countries barefoot like a disgraced mailman
Game says "You feel rested."
Incorrect. I feel threatened by trees and judged by the wind.
IMPORTANT: I heavily DO NOT recommend reading the wiki or looking up strategies.
This game is meant to be explored, discovered, suffered through, and learned naturally.
Spoilers strip the magic and reduce everything to a checklist.
10/10 game design.
0/10 mental stability.

Well, I played the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game. This is the perfect game to AFK your mind and listen to whatever podcast or show for hours and hours. Play around with mods, challenge yourself as a vanilla solo champ or just bring your friends. This game strikes a nerve within my soul. It is perfect for creative building, and even if you suck at that the game is solid just as an adventure. I plan to double my playtime the coming years and have no plans or intents to stop. The gameplay loop and the possibilities are just endless. Valheim is not a game, it is a place of contemplation and rest for the soul.

Built a cozy house. Lit a fire inside.
Forgot about ventilation.
Died of smoke inhalation in my own home.
This game perfectly captures the Viking experience.