Valheim is an amazing game that you can play for hundreds of hours to develop your character as well as create beautiful buildings, but there comes a time when we want to feel the freshness of playing and exploring the game world again. I will try in this short list to give you 5 similar titles that will allow us to feel some freshness and enjoy similar feelings we had in Valhiem. Let’s now move on to the first entry in our list.
1 Sons Of The Forest
“Sons of the Forest” is a sequel to the popular survival game “The Forest” produced by Endnight Games. As in the first part, players will have to survive in a hostile environment by collecting resources, building shelter and fighting for survival.
The main focus of the game is to explore the open world that offers you a tone of terrain to explore, including caves, forests as and let’s not forget about the mountains! You will have to face dangers in the form of wild animals and other creatures that inhabit the forest which can be quite hard at times especially at the start when you don’t have any weapon to defend yourself. One of the game’s most distinctive elements is its atmosphere, which builds tension through dark environments, sounds and unexpected events such as even jump scares! It’s quite similar to Valheim but close enough and definitely.
2 Don’t Starve Together
“Don’t Starve Together” is a multiplayer survival game developed by independent studio Klei Entertainment, It’s an expansion to the game “Don’t Starve” that allows players to play together in a world full of mystery and danger that Valheim has also to offer.
Players in “Don’t Starve Together” take on the role of characters with different skills and traits, who try to survive in a hostile, fantastic world. The main goal is to survive as long as possible by collecting resources, building shelters and fighting various adversities such as hunger, cold, werewolves and monsters.
The world is randomly generated, meaning that each new game is unique, and players must quickly adapt to changing their conditions during gameplay. The game is known for it’s original look on animaction graphics style, which is a hand drawn animation with rich atmosphere that builds suspense.
“Don’t Starve Together” is a game that places a strong emphasis on exploration, cooperation and strategy, encouraging players to make tactical decisions and experiment with different survival strategie, with its variety and challenges, the game attracts both players looking for cooperative fun and those who like to compete the whole game.
3 Terraria
“Terraria” is a 2D sandbox adventure game developed by independent studio Re-Logic. The game offers an open world full of exploration, combat, resource gathering and building, as well as a variety of adventures to experience.
In “Terraria,” players control their character, who explores a variety of biome, including forests, deserts, jungles and even underground caves and caverns. While exploring, players collect resources such as wood, stone, minerals, as well as rare materials used to create items, weapons, armor and tools.
The game offers a variety of gameplay elements, including battling monsters and bosses, exploring underground cave and dungeon systems, building custom homes and bases, developing characters by gaining experience and equipment, and trading with NPCs.
One of the distinctive elements of “Terraria” is the progression system, which allows players to advance in the game by defeating bosses, acquiring better items and exploring new areas. The game also offers a multiplayer mode, where players can join forces and explore the world together and fight monsters and bosses.
4 northgard
Northgard know for it’s real-time strategy gameplay that was developed by independent studio Shiro Games. The game is set in the world of Vikings and Norse mythology just like Valheim but here the players control clans of Vikings who fight for control of terrain that can give them food as well as more building space since it’s dependent on the tiles, as example you could only build 3 buildings as default on 1 tile and if you want to build more you got 2 options, one would be to upgarde the land which is quite expensive or just fight for a new land and get it for a lot cheaper!
In Northgard players start with a small Viking settlement with the goal of exploring, expanding and developing to gain dominance over Northgard map. The game offers several different gameplay modes, including story campaigns, a multiplayer mode and a survival mode in which players must survive in harsh conditions that could change depending on the game difficulty set.
The main goal in Northgard is to develop one’s clan by collecting resources, building structures, developing a settlement, exploring the map and fighting other clans and dangerous creatures that inhabit Northgard. The game also offers management elements in which players must manage their resources, economy and population to achieve success. The big unique in Northgard it’s seasonal system which will affect your gameplay such as during the winter the map will become cold an frosty as well as your farmers will not be able to harvest crops that efficiently and in this season time hunting would be more beneficial which is a great way to keep the game alive at all time in the real time strategy that is set in!
5 minecraft
Minecraft is probably the closest thing to Valheim since you got there open world made up of blocks that can be destroyed, placed and transformed, giving players great freedom to create and explore virtual environments as well as there are thing such as creative gamemode for players to use if they turn on cheats in game. The game does not have a specific goal, allowing players to freely choose their path so you can do anything in there you like, it’s focused on building as well and survival however the world of Minecraft isn’t as hard or even close to Valheim but the gameplay experience is definitely there.
One of the most popular modes is Survival and Hardcore mode, in which players must gather resources and well do anything they like but to succeed they need to end the game which is to kill the Elder Dragon that can be quite challenging during the early game if you don’t use any “cheesy strategy”. You will have total free dom after the main boss and they world is only the limit! (btw. the world is automaticaly generated and there is no limit!)
Minecraft just like Valheim offers multiplayer experience where you could add some mods to etchant your experience that you could enjoy with a part of friends, there is a lot more to Minecraft if you get mods since everything in there can be done or was done almost let’s say!
The game is prized for its creativity, freedom and building capabilities, which attract players of all interests and ages that’s why it’s so successfully and also close in similarities to Valheim.
