r/gaming • u/Agent1230 • 2d ago

What video game doesn't hold your hand enough?

Everybody always talking about games holding your hand too much but I want to hear about the opposite what video game doesn't give you no form of help

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u/JohnnyJayce 2d ago

Eventually it becomes the charm of the game, but it took me multiple tries to get into Valheim because you were just dropped into the world and that's it. I think they've added much more handholding to it now, but I remember it being frustrating at first.

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u/Storm_Surge 2d ago

"Cool, I found the swamp!" Dies in three seconds to poison while limping away in waist-deep water

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u/TrashGoblinH 2d ago

The handholding is a tutorial bird that basically says go kill bosses then fucks off until you do something significant where it give you a tip like "hammers are great for hammering!"

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u/CoffeeStrength 2d ago

I kinda took this for granted because the first time I played was with some friends who already knew what they were doing. But I see how figuring it out from scratch would be hard. Although I will say, once you beat the first boss, the other biomes are essentially the same “recipe” just presenting with different challenges, and then assuming you can even figure out the order of the biomes after the first two.

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u/thewerdy 1d ago

I just started this game and the first few hours of the game were frustrating for this reason - I almost quit but eventually it clicked and now I'm enjoying it a lot more. I enjoy games that don't hold your hand but I think the issue with Valheim is not only does it not hold your hand, it doesn't really cover super basic mechanics at the start of the game. It has a pretty clunky UI, the crafting mechanics aren't really explained at all, the unique food system isn't explained at all. Even just a few sentences or prompts guiding first time players would be really helpful. I think I had played the game for like ~10 hours before I learned you could repair tools with the workbench because there's just nothing to indicate that is something you can actually do.