

I don't want to imply that Valheim's current popularity is exclusively down to the rejection of the genre's most boring bits-it's also uncommonly polished for an Early Access game, boasts a simple but reasonably flexible building system, and is set in an inviting procedural world that beckons you to explore it. It's very much not for me, but it takes these normally dull systems in a fascinating direction. Scum, with its elaborate injury and metabolism system, which required you to take bathroom breaks, simulated fat and muscle, and could lead to the loss of body parts, is a rare exception. And even if you are looking for a hardcore survival sim, the extremely basic ways most of them simulate your health means that you're not really getting something remotely realistic. Survival games have just become too bogged down by their desire to replicate the survival experience instead of trying to capture what makes it an attractive videogame subject. By appealing to masochism, survival games seem to miss all the other things that attract people to the genre. Nobody believes that dying from starvation repeatedly while they try to build a really cool tower makes the construction project more meaningful or memorable. We don't need a game to teach us to remember to eat when we're hungry. Unlike, say, Dark Souls, you don't see people holding up any survival games as examples of things where the difficulty teaches you to get good. Valheim commands (opens in new tab) : Handy cheat codes Valheim armor (opens in new tab) : The best sets
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