To have fun 5 years in early entry, Valheim will get a brand new hat, higher Steam Deck efficiency, and—look forward to it—frosted sweetbread

It has been 5 years since Valheim revitalized the survival craft style. On the time I bear in mind pondering “why would anybody need to play a brand new sport on this model when there’s already Minecraft, Ark and Rust?”. With the advantage of hindsight I do know that two issues labored in Valheim’s favour. One was its intelligent finetuning of survival and constructing techniques that also felt actually clunky in competing video games, and which many have since adopted. The opposite factor was Vikings. Valheim dominated a lot that it was our favourite game of 2021, and that was largely because of Vikings.

5 years later Valheim remains to be in early entry, however its updates come thick and quick and its group appears, by and enormous, fairly pleased with how issues are going. To have fun the milestone, Iron Gate has issued a particular anniversary replace, or “Patch 0.221.10” in additional prosaic phrases. It includes a bunch of good issues, like “a celebratory hat”, a brand new weapon within the type of early axes (they’re mainly historical dual-wieldable axes), and frosted sweetbread, which is a brand new consumable.