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Wellness Wednesday for March 29, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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Has anyone else here played Valheim? It’s a Viking themed survival/combat game, with a cool and relatively simple building system.

I got it at prodding from some friends, and am having a blast. My partner has even joined me and it’s easily the most fun game we’ve played together.

I thought I had lost the spirit of gaming since I haven’t really found a game I’ve loved in years - turns out I just wasn’t playing the right games. Valheim makes me feel like a kid again, it’s excellent. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a game.

Played it with my group before it dissolved due to kids. It was OK. Somewhat too grindy. We never made it far. I found it pretty, nice, but also a little too boring for my taste.

Fair! I actually love the grind for resources, I find it incredibly relaxing for some reason. Maybe you just didn't have enough grinders in your group.

Oh, we had a division of labor with two resource grinders and crafters. I focused on exploration. The fourth player, IIRC, mostly did hunting and cooking.

It was alright, but require more endurance in coordination and planning than we were regularly capable of.

I loved it (though I'd have said it was a building game first and a survival/combat game as the afterthought; perhaps I just wasn't pushing fast enough into harder zones to keep up a challenge). But in that genre my kids still prefer Minecraft and Don't Starve Together, so that's where we are again lately.

Good to hear! Yeah I think some of the appeal is that the game offers a lot of different paths for different people. My partner is more of a builder, I’m more into combat/progression, but the game blends them together extremely well.