1000 hours with no end in sight!

[Draconifors]

Valheim has now joined an exclusive group of games in that I've hit 1000 hours played. Only three other games have done that before.

I first got the game on April 17th, 2021, so it's been less than nine months. Needless to say, Valheim has easily been my most played game during that period, and I'm sure it will continue to be as well. There are things, including a boss, that I have yet to even see for the first time as I like to take my time with the game and never rush through things.

I think Valheim has a chance to, VERY eventually, take the spot of my most played game despite that requiring well over 4000 hours clocked. Multiplayer adds a whole new world of fun to an already seemingly endlessly entertaining and fun game, and is something the current #1 game does not have.

I haven't even used a single mod, ever, to spice things up. Vanilla all the way.

Thank you to Iron Gate for this truly magnificent game. I am also sure it will only get better as the Early Access phase continues and eventually ends.

[GunsForBucks]

It isn't my most played game but it ranks with some good ones.

My top played games are Killing Floor with 7000 hrs across multiple accounts and using the SDK to make maps.
Next would be Warframe with over 5000 hrs.
Payday 2 basically the 3000 hr + club type games to me.

Well that is just on steam I have untold hours play Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, probably 10s of thousands of hours in BF2142...

But current games Valheim comes in after the biggies along with The Division in terms of playtime. Valheim is a game I will continue to play unlike The Division though.

The tier below that are good games like Left4Dead but typically can only hold my attention for around 400 to 600 hrs

[gerzald]

1100 hr Only been to the Mtns a few times. Looks like the new biomes gonna drop before I get that far the way I am dawdling.

[Draconifors]

İlk olarak Alcovitch tarafından gönderildi:

How does one put 1000hr into Witcher 3? Even with the 2 expansions, you'll have seen literally everything there is in the game LONG before you get close to those numbers.

Not really a topic for the Valheim forum, so I'll just say this: one of the things the two games have in common is that I genuinely enjoy doing and seeing things over and over again.

More on topic: I'm happy to see so many people can relate.

And

İlk olarak Polonius Ulf tarafından gönderildi:

Thanks, Draconifors, for this topic.

I bought Valheim with many other good games, including two on OP's 1000 hour list. I could have stopped with Valheim.

I bought and installed a 1T ssd. There are games I haven't downloaded yet. All of them are enticing. None of them is Valheim.

You're welcome, and glad to hear.

[Trakehner]

I am only about half way to the hours of my most played game (Planet Coaster), which for PC is like 5200 hours lol.

But then again, that is over 4 years. Have half the hours in Valheim since February EA. Yeah, I would say I'm rather fond of Valheim.

Hell! My GF almost never plays video games.. but even she is playing Valheim almost everyday.

[Happy]

1469 hours over here on Valheim. 3rd or 4th (probably closer to 3rd or even second now) most played game hours so far. Only games ahead of it are Company of Heroes 2, Total War Warhammer 2, & the soon to be overtaken Eternal Crusade (rip) I straight up can't stop playing it.

[Kus]

You can easily double that with mods

[Zero [HU][VR]]

İlk olarak pipo.p tarafından gönderildi:

I mean, it can be approached as a real passtime game with short playing sessions.

And how can you possibly do that?
Between christmas and new year, I played Valheim. I woke up late, started my computer, joined our Valheim server. Friends soon joined too.
Next thing I notice, that my eyes are burning, I can barely lift my arms (I play it in VR), and 14 hours passed in the real world.

[Alcovitch]

İlk olarak us271934 tarafından gönderildi:

I'm kind of following the same path with staying vanilla. I've also tried to keep away from spoiler videos, etc. Maybe the most oddball thing I've done is kept away from sailing around until I've thoroughly explored, on foot, whatever I can. After 1000 hours I recently built a Karve and crossed a narrow strait and am just now island hopping toward The Elder - yes, I'm still Bronze Age but with a few chests full of Swamp, Mountain and Plains loot from exploring the edges of those biomes. It's pretty cool to feel anxiety, wonder and discovery in a game I paid $20 bucks for months ago

1000 hours and you just built a karve? What have you been doing on the starter island for 1000 hours.

Don't get me wrong. I love this game, but there's NO WAY 1000 hours of content unless you endlessly start over.

I did a vanilla run
did a no bow no portals run
started a 3rd for fun after heart and home and got close to 200h and there's nothing left to do.

[Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch]

1600 Hours here.

My latest thing is to play "hardcore" If I die I simply exit... delete the character and the world and start over.

[Science Dog]

Right around 850 hours for me. Skål!

[us271934-Слава Україн]

İlk olarak Alcovitch tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak us271934 tarafından gönderildi:

I'm kind of following the same path with staying vanilla. I've also tried to keep away from spoiler videos, etc. Maybe the most oddball thing I've done is kept away from sailing around until I've thoroughly explored, on foot, whatever I can. After 1000 hours I recently built a Karve and crossed a narrow strait and am just now island hopping toward The Elder - yes, I'm still Bronze Age but with a few chests full of Swamp, Mountain and Plains loot from exploring the edges of those biomes. It's pretty cool to feel anxiety, wonder and discovery in a game I paid $20 bucks for months ago

1000 hours and you just built a karve? What have you been doing on the starter island for 1000 hours.

Don't get me wrong. I love this game, but there's NO WAY 1000 hours of content unless you endlessly start over.

I did a vanilla run
did a no bow no portals run
started a 3rd for fun after heart and home and got close to 200h and there's nothing left to do.

I'm sorry I'm not playing this game the way you do. If I read you correctly then your game goal is only to run around and kill the bosses. That is only a side quest for my gameplay.

I'll let my maps do the talking
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2715672084
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2715674609

This is a bit older but gives an idea of the explored area versus the full map.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2689691180

[Blindefender]

Just picked this up during the Christmas sale. What I like about so far is the lack of deadlines. So many other survival games you must accomplish certain things by day 10, or 30, or your pretty much done. This seems slower pace. I can see myself putting in some hours.

My 1000 plus games are Skyrim, Dark Souls 1, and X-Com 2.

I also have a bunch of MMO hours in WOW, Rift , and Guild Wars 2. But I'm afraid to count those. lol

[Draconifors]

İlk olarak Blindefender tarafından gönderildi:

Just picked this up during the Christmas sale. What I like about so far is the lack of deadlines. So many other survival games you must accomplish certain things by day 10, or 30, or your pretty much done. This seems slower pace. I can see myself putting in some hours.

I hate time limits in games, so the lack of those is certainly one aspect of Valheim that I, too, enjoy. The game gives you plenty of freedom, overall, which is awesome. :D

I treat Valheim bosses the same as I treat main quests in games like Skyrim and Witcher 3; postpone them until I either want to fight/do them or need to fight/do them to gain access to something I want.

[Kus]

İlk olarak Draconifors tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Blindefender tarafından gönderildi:

Just picked this up during the Christmas sale. What I like about so far is the lack of deadlines. So many other survival games you must accomplish certain things by day 10, or 30, or your pretty much done. This seems slower pace. I can see myself putting in some hours.

I hate time limits in games, so the lack of those is certainly one aspect of Valheim that I, too, enjoy. The game gives you plenty of freedom, overall, which is awesome. :D

I treat Valheim bosses the same as I treat main quests in games like Skyrim and Witcher 3; postpone them until I either want to fight/do them or need to fight/do them to gain access to something I want.

Yea, me too. I just defeated the elder after like 60 hours and have no rush to go further rn. Chilling, building, farming. There's barely any game which makes me enjoy basebuilding and exploring around as much as valheim. (slightly modded tho, but still)

[us271934-Слава Україн]

I'm with you on the no deadlines/no rush thing. After a zillion hours of indentured servitude playing multiplayer ARK and a few similar games I'm happy to not be playing by necessity or lose everything. I was traveling and had to log in on a complete potato laptop with 15fps to keep my stuff from despawning - I was a couple hours late once and an entire base despawned while my neighbor watched helplessly (PVE server - not raided) lol.

The grind in Valheim is a different animal too - almost voluntary and periodic rather than continuous and required. That said it's really a matter of personal preference/taste, like sushi