Recent reviews by New Year, Same Pirate

Easily one of the greatest story games I've played in a very long time, arguably the best in the series.

Hands down, my favourite "souls-like" game out there - over the souls series itself too which I am a HUGE fan of. The developers had a vision and they achieved it. Gameplay is clean and smooth, the VA's are incredible, huge variety in weapons, bosses and locales... you really need to see it yourself.

If you're still thinking about playing it, do it. It's fantastic.

Besides some stuttering and frame drops between areas this game is 100% worth playing. One of the greatest remakes of recent history.

Game was sadly unplayable for me. Messing around with the settings seemed to get me nowhere, jumping between 27 to 80 fps seemingly at random which just made me feel ill.

I refunded the game due to these performance issues.

The game is a lot better now. Optimisation has been improved, but far from perfect. Still get low framerates and stuttering in some areas. I'm able to run the game pretty smoothly on high otherwise. 70-80 frames with a 3070. It's just some areas are worse than others, I would definitely suggest messing with the settings to find your sweet spot.

Otherwise, great game and now playable! - Kinda!

One of the best remakes around

The latest patch that apparently "fixed" stuttering has made the game unplayable for me. I wasn't stuttering before the update but now every minute or so the game just locks up for a second.

I'd wait a few months before buying this game. It's alittle rough.

Fun combat, great base building, cute art style, boppin' soundtrack!

10/10 I set a pirate girl on fire

Valheim is...it's just... Just buy it.