Valheim is been very popular since the release in February 2nd, Valheim sets a record with over half-million concurrent players in a short time, there are a lot of people playing this game for the past few weeks, Valheim is a open world survival game inspired by the viking culture for 1-10 players, the game is currently in early access on steam.
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Narrative: You start your journey with your friends or alone in the fantasy world inspired by Norse mythology and Viking culture, you have to survive by building a base, hunting animals and killing enemies in order to get stronger.
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Puzzle: You have to travel to different places to find different enemies in order to be able to unlock some new bosses, by getting new things in different places your character gains knowledge and that is how you unlock new weapons, new armor and new stuff in the world, there are 5 different bosses in different lands inside the game, by defeating each boss your character learn new things, and there are domains in the world which you can get very important materials to build things such as portals, boats and tools.
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Exploration: Travel with friends in different ways to discover new lands, there are also rocks that has letter which tells you about the story, traveling around the world is the most exciting part of the game because you get to explore a lot of beautiful things and gathering new resources to craft weapons to survive because the world is full of dangerous enemies.
These are screenshots of me and my friends exploring the world:
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