Early Access (or other) games comparable to Valheim

[loppantorkel]

I've noticed a few complaints about the progress in the development of Valheim. Mistlands is of course expected later this year, or possible early next year. Since I'm holding out until the Mistlands release, I've got some time to kill this autumn.

I think I'm upwards 400 hours played in Valheim.
I've spent approx 17€ on the game.
I haven't lost my world a single time, and I don't remember having any crashes during these several hundred hours spent.
I've barely had any issues playing this game in co-op, only a few dropped connections.
In terms of early access titles - this is by far the best money I've spent.

I'd love to see some comparable games to this. In terms of accessibility, co-op, durability, cost effectiveness, etc.

Feel free to suggest titles for me and others to check out that you've enjoyed as much as Valheim, while we wait for more content. I'd be most happy to check out other early access games, but it doesn't have to be. It does not have to be games similar to Valheim, just comparable in value - check how much time you've spent on either game, if unsure. Please keep things constructive in this thread.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Conan Exiles is the only game I've seen that has a similar combination of survival/crafting gameplay, exploration, and good melee combat.

Come to think of it, decent combat in general is hard to find in this genre. 7D2D is heavily attrition focus, Ark is basically dinosaur Pokemon, and the rest mostly have bog standard first person shooter combat. Maybe it's a power level thing. Killing giant reptiles or hordes of undead with hand weapons is a major event in those games. In Valheim, it's a grocery run.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

引用自 The Big Brzezinski：

Conan Exiles is the only game I've seen that has a similar combination of survival/crafting gameplay, exploration, and good melee combat.

Come to think of it, decent combat in general is hard to find in this genre. 7D2D is heavily attrition focus, Ark is basically dinosaur Pokemon, and the rest mostly have bog standard first person shooter combat. Maybe it's a power level thing. Killing giant reptiles or hordes of undead with hand weapons is a major event in those games. In Valheim, it's a grocery run.

I think what finally got me with singleplayer Conan was the NPC coding. The boars in Valheim are superior in intellect
They may have improved the Conan NPC AI since I left it but I have never felt even 1/10th as frustrated playing Valheim with regards to tames behavior. The tames behave pretty consistent even when things go wrong.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Valheim might have the same problems if it had human equivalent opponents. Players are the only entities that move and fight like players. Everything else just comes up and does the small set of attacks it can do. Good enough for monsters, though.

[shadowscion]

引用自 Flare |UKCS|：

For one thing, the devs have not left the game, they are working on a rather large update, a new biome and boss with new items.
I suggest you do NOT try early access titles as it seems you dont understand the concept of early access.

This game was easily worth the price tag, but the notion that "early access" means people can't complain about slow progress or false promise is so dumb.

[Maviba]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/324080/Rising_World/

It's a mixture of Minecraft but better graphics and Valheim.
No viking theme, no story (yet), no quests, but you may run into enemies from time to time.

It'a pure sandbox survival game with countless opportunities for base building.
You can literally built everytrhing, and I mean everything.

It also EA and probably one of these gemes that are never going to be finished ^^
But doesn't matter. It's already a great game and you won't lose your progress after each update.

Development is steady and updates areregular
Currently they are porting their earlier java version to unity. You get both versions when buying.

I started playing it 5 or 6 years ago, and stil enjoy it.

[A Rare White Stag]

引用自 GunsForBucks：

Warframe

its pay2win dont do it and dont listen to anyone that says it isnt

[A Rare White Stag]

it has even more microtransations than a mobile game

[PakaNoHida]

引用自 pepe the krab：

引用自 GunsForBucks：

Warframe

its pay2win dont do it and dont listen to anyone that says it isnt

hyperbole at its best.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

引用自 PakaNoHida：

引用自 pepe the krab：

its pay2win dont do it and dont listen to anyone that says it isnt

hyperbole at its best.

Who wants it at its worst? LOL - we'd then be out of gaming and into reality!

[Gog]

It's probably a ways out, but The Wayward Realms will be a spiritual successor to the classic game Daggerfall with the same lead Dev.

So it will have full world generation like Daggerfall had and whatnot.

I always felt some parallel with Valheim something like Daggerfall because of it's world generation and exploration aspect.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818450/STALCRAFT/

Or you can try the Stalcraft playtest that just came out. Last playtest surprised a lot of people. I mean the gameplay is different, still has an "RPG" element with retro look though.

[shadowscion]

引用自 pepe the krab：

引用自 GunsForBucks：

Warframe

its pay2win dont do it and dont listen to anyone that says it isnt

It's not. You can use the void trader to make tons of plat passively.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Warframe has almost nothing aesthetically or mechanically in common with Valheim. It's a dead end tangent to compare them.

Empyrion is another close game to Valheim, thinking about it. It's also a survival-crafting game with procedurally generated maps to explore, made in Unity be a small team. Both games even emphasize exploration by ship. If I was to lift an idea from Empyrion that Valheim might benefit from, it would the creation of a pipeline by which community-made building and overland dungeon assets can be submitted and voted on by players for the devs to consider adding to the base game.

[The Big Brzezinski]

By that criteria, any open-ended game with multiplayer and reliable performance would be relevant. Empyrion at least has gameplay aesthetics and mechanics that are comparable to Valheim in ways worth examining in a thread on the Valheim forum. To simply start listing off games that OP should go buy and play instead of this one feels a bit disrespectful to the forum's general purpose.

So in that spirit, I'll bring up Nioh. Nioh taught me how to fight in Valheim before I ever saw the sacrificial stones. Stamina management, distance control, aggression, everything I need to win against larger and more numerous foes. After rocking a spear for so long in Nioh, taking up the atgeir to fell monsters in Valheim felt extremely natural. Nioh even has similar mechanics for choosing to make your character better at either dodging or blocking. More than a few boss fight mechanics could stand to be lifted from Nioh for Valheim bosses, though I would also expect more than a few ragequits if Moder started doing Hino-Enma's diving attacks.

[The Big Brzezinski]

OP is free to do their own further research if the experience I've shared has spurred their curiosity about it.

[loppantorkel]

I appreciate the suggestions and even though I've seen most of these games before, they're worth checking out again. Few if any games suggested reaches Valheim as far as I can tell, but depending on what your inclination is at this moment, there have been some great suggestions. It doesn't hurt if some games are a bit different or doesn't hit every (or any) criteria.

I've looked into Empyrion, Deep Rock Galactic, Satisfactory and a few other games again and while they all seem good-great I think the themes and to some degree their gameplay aspects are drawbacks for me. I'm more intrigued by Salt/Salt 2 at this moment - again not really comparable to what Valheim offers at this moment, but the sea, ship and exploration part seems nice.

Thank you for your contributions!