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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 5, 2026

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What are you buying during the Steam summer sale? I picked up Persona 4, Noita, Witcher 3, Halo 3 collection, and the Prey Mooncrash DLC.

It's ending in a couple days so I'm considering picking up another couple games on sale like God of War, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, or Into the Breach.

Tell me what you're buying, or try to convince me to buy one of the games on my list!

I finally got Valheim and enjoyed it for a while but lately have been drowning in so many bears that it's not fun any more. Literally about half my time is spent fighting bears, and as soon as one's gone another seems to take its place almost immediately. Can't go anywhere or do anything. Also, the bears don't drop anything I want, so it's pretty much purely a pain in the ass.

Let's be clear that it's not a skill issue; I can fight them just fine. It just takes too long and their spawn rate is insane.

My more experienced friends tell me I should probably just build a new house somewhere else. Apparently the problem I'm having may be a quirk of two small black forest biomes near my house. The game seems to want a bear in each of them at all times, whereas when I go and explore larger black forest biomes bears don't seem very common at all.

For several reasons I'm thinking I may just want to start fresh with a new character and world.

I admit it's been a long time since I cracked open Valheim, but can't you just make a new world and move your existing character over to it? I seem to recall doing that a number of times to help friends take down some of the bosses.

Definitely could, but I'd like the experience of starting from scratch again, this time knowing how things work.

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