Am i missing something about Valheim?

I haven't played it but it does seem like a game that shines with friends.

It's got good progression, it doesn't waste your time with shitloads of grind, you can build really neat viking houses, it's pve coop, and you get to do viking shit with your viking friends. Also: sailing.

I feel exactly the same way about Subnautica, Stardew Valley, Rimworld, all extremely acclaimed games.

It's basically a standard survival game, but it has some nice differences

• generally isn't grindy at all, (conan, ark, and rust were all much more time consuming in my experience)
• dark souls dodge rolling and parry shit is fun
• you can build houses faster than minecraft, and tearing shit down doesn't cost you anything
• additionally building houses is fun with the support and smoke physics
• atmosphere and art style are good, one of the better examples of low poly game art done stylistically well

its fun with friends in the same way every game is fun with friends, so idk if that will improve anything other than being able to sing sea shanties together while sailing or something

Don’t play video games, start going for runs and getting swole.

Couldn't get into it myself. maybe down the line i'll check it out again but it was really underwhelming when I tried it.

I don't play many games, I got it cuz low end linux computer, and it works!

Yeah I've also been trying but it really hasn't clicked for me

More focused on the survival than the crafting side, but I've really been "enjoying" Green Hell lately. Something about how manual and tactile and just hard the crafting is makes it really satisfying when you manage to carve out even the most limited camp for yourself

for me, it has some really fun exploration. it has a great atmosphere too.