Episode 164 - Vietnam Pro Skater - Valheim

You could pod another cast. Welcome back to the podcast! Today, for
our second bite at the Fanbruary apple on the main cast, we’re
going to be talking about Valheim. Valheim is a survival game that
largely captured the audience for this type of game when it
released in early access with it’s Norse theming, boss laddering
and robust base building mechanics. Since those halcyon days, the
updates to the game have slowed down a bit and the player base has
dwindled some, but it still remains one of the most popular
survival games. Now, we are not the most avid survival game
players. You might say that we all but never play these games. But,
we gave this the old college try despite being very unfamiliar with
the conventions of the genre, and for the most part managed to get
by. Valheim is a game about very slow resource accretion with
helpfully well defined goals, those being to build a shelter,
improve your equipment, find a way to navigate to each boss, and
defeat them for powerups, and then proceed down the line. It is
compelling to have an extrinsic goal in a game like this, but there
are also myriad decisions that place it squarely within its genre
and make it lack some appeal outside that audience. We’re going to
be talking about chopping down trees, mining copper, and chopping
down trees. Thank you for joining us again this week! Following our
stated objective of playing games we wouldn’t normally during
Fanbruary, this is squarely outside of our usual comfort zone. That
said, the game has its merits and I hope we were able to identify
them successfully. And if not? Why, you can let us know down in the
comments or over on the discord, from whence this suggestion came!
Next time, we’re taking a look at Lunacid, a King’s Field inspired
title, so we hope you’ll join us then!