Valheim has swept the PC gaming world by storm, selling over five million copies in under a month. There are over 120,000 overwhelmingly positive user reviews on Steam, but why the hell do so many of them compare Valheim’s action-RPG combat to Dark Souls?
One of the very first user reviews I came across posited that it's basically Dark Souls without the difficulty. Another insists it has 'Soulslike combat and punishment for death'. The real hair-puller, though: 'Valheim is like a Minecraft version of dark souls'. If you aren’t familiar with Valheim, it's an open-world survival game much more like Terraria than Rust. It focuses on sandbox co-op play, rather than PvP multiplayer. You control your character from a third-person perspective, explore a procedurally generated world, and gear up to take on a variety of enemies as well as legendary bosses.
Sure, it's got RPG systems, lots of loot, light and heavy attacks, and blocking and rolling mechanics. Dark Souls certainly has those things - it's a modern action-RPG, after all - but those gameplay descriptors don't come close to capturing the essence of Souls games. The Witcher 3 fits this description, does that make it a Soulslike? How about Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or Monster Hunter World?
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