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We all know the feeling.

Oh, and now someone’s teabagging your looted corpse.

Gun pointed at floating hag monster in the dark,

When it comes to survival games, PvP is one of the more prolific game modes out there.

“The ones that we respect but don’t look too much to are the PvP-centric ones.

“Then along came Valheim, which showed us what a particularly accessible example could look like.”

Nightingale

Speaking to Valheim’s accessibility, we’re talking easy to learn, but still hard to master.

And of course, something that comes with a hook that both players and artists can get excited about.

“Valheim is a particularly distinct world.

a person using a magical spectral axe to cut down a tree

We had settled on the Victorian idea quite a while ago.

We like the balance between the contemporary, without the trappings of modern day stuff.

Creatively it energized our team.”

A campfire in a dark forest at twilight

As Flynn recalls, their response was something like “Yeah, I like the sound of that.

I’d like to push myself to make cool things in that world and challenge myself.”

The answer seems to have been not pushing it in the PvP direction, despitepressure from the competition.

Legacy: Steel & Sorcery

There’s a lot of competition around thebest survival games.

A hand holding a compass in front of a wooden cabin

Key art for Atomfall showing a character in the English countryside looking at a nuclear plant some distance away

Clashing swords against a warrior in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Dune Awakening

A screenshot from RuneScape: Dragonwilds showing four characters adventuring under a starry sky, with a dragon overhead.

Subnautica 2

a spaceship among the cosmos

Palworld

Pal wields a massive turret in a screenshot from Palworld

Oblivion Remastered "Sir Vancealot"

Skyblivion

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer still showing the D-Rex

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Solo Leveling anime

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2