Is Valheim the hardest survivalcraft game ever made?

[Nightweaver20xx]

Opinions, go. I say "yes."

[GunsForBucks]

The main thing that makes this much easier than most survival games is lack of PVP.

PVP is the main reason I normally don't even play survival games.

I loved the survival mode in The Division... great when it was unpopular and you could basically play solo. Became horrible when people started to play it and troll you all the time. Well they were a company of sociopaths at Beth. so no solo option.

[Yankee Axe]

honestly this game is easymode...

[Husker_85]

ARK is no-where near the hardest survival game (though it might be the hardest to not die in), but even ARK is WAY harder than Valheim. True, Val has the experience loss which hurts, but once you get into bronze tier and learn to parry you'll start going very long periods of time between deaths.

Wanna have fun with a hard survival game? Try Green Hell. Green Hell has the best food and damage system I've ever seen. You have proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and water to keep track of. You can survive off of just one food type and water, but you'll nerf your max health (kind of like Val). But if you get injured you'll need to use the appropriate medical treatment. So if you get bit by a rattlesnake you need either an antivenom bandage or a regular bandage plus some aspirin or anti-fever tea. Get grazed by a tribal spear? You'll need to staple the wound closed using bullet-ant heads before you bandage it. Wound get infected because you were slow with the bandage or used the wrong bandage? You'll need to place maggots in the wound to clean the infected tissue before you bandage it. Hell you even need to remember to wash your hands before you eat or you get food parasites.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

nah, it's pretty casual.

You can make it even more casual by making a new world with an old character, keeping the elder powerups and iron without having waves of enemies attack your base.
Since those waves happen after you beat the bosses.

[luponix]

no

[TradingDough]

Not even close buddy

The isle
Ark buggy evolved
Rust
The forest
Outward (I cant believe no one mentioned this gem)
The long dark

[Le druide]

Valheim is clearly for casual players, so I'll consider your post a troll...

... Or you're just new to the world of video games.

[kekkuli]

No. As someone who almost never plays this type of games i still find Valheim pretty easy.

[jemYZX]

Първоначално публикувано от FuFo Mortucus:

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But I'm 42...

that would make you a millenial facepalm or do you think you are a boomer lol

That is Generation X your texting to, that's not a Millenial. Millenials are born from 1980 - 1996. In 2021 subtracting to 1980 the oldest Millenial is 41 not 42, which this commenter was born in the year 1979 if that's case.

[ULTRA]

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I am not a big gamer, and while I haven't played any of the games mentioned here I do have one to add:

The Long Dark

Brutal is the only way I would describe it, but it isn't really a crafting game, I guess.

I played the Long Dark too and forgot, but yeah, it's totally way harder, specifically from a survival standpoint

I am glad we have all settled on the conclusion that Valheim is actually easy at last (even though it took someone claiming it was totally hard in a contentious way to get there). It's just that the punishment for dying is so severe that it can appear to be HARDCORE!!

[c0Zm1c]

All things considered I think it's just above average in difficulty. I realise it's different for everyone but for me it strikes a good balance between challenging and frustrating and never feels unfairly punishing. It's Early Access though so things could change dramatically.

[morph113]

Quite the opposite, it's one of the easiest. I don't even consider it a survival game as it lacks things like starvation and dehydration. Also the monsters are relatively easy to deal with plus if you die you just respawn. Even if we consider the game to be a survival game, it's one of the easiest survival games. Literally any other survival game is harder.

[Macdallan]

Is Valheim the hardest survival crafting game? No, definitely not. Can you do things that make it harder or easier? Yes, absolutely. If you take time to upgrade your gear and properly prepare before advancing to harder biomes then Vahleim can be quite easy, if you don't then it can be quite difficult.

A lot of the difficulty lies in whether or not the player has some skill with the combat system, understands the other game mechanics (how food, stamina, resting work for example) and upgrades their gear before moving to the next biome. Take your time, learn the game, improve your gear and you won't find Valheim all that challenging. Rush ahead without really knowing what you're doing and without proper equipment and it may seem impossible.

There are tough survival/crafting game lists out there on the internet. They have games like Green Hell, The Forest, Don't Starve/Don't Starve Together, Project Zomboid, 7 Days to Die (difficulty honestly depends on the settings you pick), Kenshi, Ark, The Long Dark, Conan Exiles, SCUM, and Rust on them. Not one of the lists of difficult or tough survival games I found lists Valheim. I'd argue about half the games that make these lists aren't really very hard - maybe unforgiving if you make mistakes but not necessarily all that difficult. For example Rust is only somewhat difficult because it's primarily PVP, remove the PVP aspect and go jump on a PVE server and it becomes quite easy. Conan Exiles is also not that hard once you understand the mechanics. It can seem unforgiving at first but it's really not.

It's an opinion, though, and I'm sure some people find Valheim as tough as Dark Souls is to others.

[Arasine]

Ive 100% soloed the entire content, no cheats, workaround, alternate worlds, nothing. Just log in to the same world alone and play. Everything done months ago to the point of using Dragon eggs as decorations etc and I can 100% say this game is far easier than many others.
Its not in the top 10 of hard survival games for me. Once you know the mechanics, and farm the correct things, it would be a relaxing difficulty. Without the proper farming of items or taking the content in the "wrong" order its hard, but not impossible (apart from a couple of instances).

[HungSolo]

After getting murdered by a troll repeatedly I decided to cool it and try some farming/raisign pigs, got caught in a storm and made myself a fire...suffocated by smoke.