Game recommendations with similar grind?

[HangarPilot]

TL;DR - I'm looking for a game with a similar grind (any genre). Suggestions?

I'm totally serious and not trying to stir anything up. I know there are players here who really hate the grind and I hope they are enjoying the new resource yield sliders. I love the grind and in our last play of the PTB we actually set the slider to 0.75 to slow the game down just a bit.

Over 20-ish plays and 1700 hours and I love the grind in Valheim. Mainly I believe that's because it alway relevant/useful. You gather to build/craft/upgrade and continue to do so right up to the end. A lot of colony builder games have a heavy grind initially but later you become self-sufficient and I find myself collecting stuff I don't need ... to maybe sell to a trader for money I don't need ... etc. When it becomes just grinding for grinding's sake I lose interest.

Before you say "so just play Valheim" ... we are. But that's the issue. My wife loves Valheim even more than I do. I play; she watches. I need a "me" game I can play when she's busy doing something else.

[ynstynct]

ironman runescape 3 or ironman runescape oldschool hardcore, or ultimate

runescape 3 is more chill end game bossing focus with solo intent

osrs more crude slower grind group focus end game

[Suzaku]

Grounded, or Conan Exiles. For more chill games, maybe something like Palia (in open beta, not on Steam), or my Time in Portia.

[chewer]

Maybe Seven Days To Die.

You might need to tinker with the world settings a bit (e.g., tone down or deactivate the horde) to get a similar vibe as Valheim.

Plus, 7D2D throws a lot of things at you right from the start. In Valheim, you start with stone, wood, leather, meat, and a couple of other things. Only later on will you acquire more materials. In contrast, 7D2D gives you different metals, foods, drinks, building parts, books, construction materials, currency, item mods, and more right from the start. This can be a bit confusing and overwhelming at first.

[J.]

Wild terra 2: New lands

[LividTangerine]

V-rising
Force of Nature II
Astroneer
Subnautica
Raft
Craft the World
The Survivalists
Craftopia - legacy version (edit)
Corekeeper
Salt 2
Dinkum
and my guilty pleasure... Green Project

[LokoLG]

Valheim most reminiscent for me is Terraria - explore, grind, progress by killing bosses.

Don't Starve - explore, grind, progress by beating seasons.

No Man's Sky - explore, grind, progress.

Subnautica - explore, grind, progress.


Different grind:
- (fighting) Mount and blade games
-(farming,relations) Stardew valley
-(farming, grave digging, corpse tunning) Graveyard keeper

[Peppr]

Different genre, but Monster Hunter has a nice grind/craft loop.

[Foxglovez]

Medieval Dynasty, no bosses but lots of farming, explore, building. Very well done. NMS of course.

[faithwalker]

I think that The Planet Crafter is a lot of fun except you mostly fight the environment instead of enemies.

[BigWezz]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Medieval Dynasty, no bosses but lots of farming, explore, building. Very well done. NMS of course.

Medieval Dynasty is getting co-op at some point too, so could be good with friends too.

[Foxglovez]

Yes, before end of this year.

[Honor Guard]

I am wanting to suggest warframe but I am unsure on that

[The Great Cornholio]

Subnautica

[Happy]

Maybe Fallout 4.

[Gensoukyou1337]

Originally posted by LividTangerine:

and my guilty pleasure... Green Project

Last time I heard it was discontinued. There's nothing beyond the 5th Terraforming stage (radiation removal).