I’ve been playing this a lot this week and it runs great on my M1 MBA. Thought some of you may be interested, it’s like a cross between World of Warcraft and Minecraft.
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Valheim is now on MacOS
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Thanks game lords they did release it on steam too, not only appstore. I still play on pc because Mac supported games refused to be supported on steam too, looking at you death stranding.
Yes I try to use Steam over the App Store, it was £5 more expensive but I find it easier to have everything in one place.
I use 'IsThereAnyDeal' to track sales so I got Valheim cheap last year (like really cheap) ... Steam Sales are 100x better than anything that happens on the Mac App Store.
Plus summer sale is coming 
there's literally no sales on appstore
there's literally no sales on appstore They just did a sale on the App Store 🤷♂️
Yes it’s currently £9.99 on the App Store, I think I paid £15.99 on Steam.
I don’t think that was because it was a Mac suipoorted game. It was probably because Kojima did a deal with Apple that included MAS exclusivity.
Maybe so, but Apple in the past never had big sales at all on the MAS, so this is nothing but a good thing! Do you remember how cheap you got it for on Steam?
Plus summer sale is coming
Well that’s not true anymore is it? Because we’ve had two HUGE sales on games this year! Didn’t you pick up Stray during the last one?!
I can’t say I was that impressed. Lovely to look at but a lot of directionless meandering at the start with no clue on basics like how to start a fire. I tried wandering off and just got killed in every direction. Reminded me less of Minecraft and more of Lego Fortnite. I gave it a good 3-4 hours but it wasn’t for me.
seems like not in my region.
It's 99 PLN on Appstore.
On Steam, for 72 PLN, standard price.
I had Stray from Day0 on Steam.
Also, trying to find a game on sale on Appstore now, can't find any... also there's no "on sale" category.
It’s on the banner at the top of the page! Once you click on it, then you’ll be able to scroll down the list, one by one and see what the discount is.
You’re on the Mac App Store, right?
Oh lol, "Amazing games on sale now" on Discover page but not on Play page; but all are more expensive than on Steam 🥲
AppStore / Steam (standard prices or sale if marked as), PLN:
Valheim: 99.99 / 71.99 (35.99 Summer Sale)
Death Stranding: 99.99 / 169 (84 summer sale) -- this is strange, might be discounted on appstore but not marked?
Lies of P: 192.99 / 274.99 (164.99 summer sale) -- same as above
RE Village: 71 / 179 (71 summer sale) -- price match
Return to Monkey Island: 69.99 / 114 (57 summer sale)
So:
It seems there are some sales on AppStore, but the sales are not marked. This is also borderline illegal in Poland, where merchants have to show not only the discount but also the lowest price in the last 30 days for any promotion (Steam does this). So you can see, anywhere, if something was recently discounted, if it's a fake discount and so on. This applies to any merchant when offering promos, including online stores, airlines, physical stores, digital items, etc.
RE Village seems to be the only one that matched the price, everything else was more expensive on Appstore.
Couldn't check standard prices on appstore because well, they don't show them.
AppStore / Steam (standard prices or sale if marked as), PLN:
Valheim: 99.99 / 71.99 (35.99 Summer Sale)
Death Stranding: 99.99 / 169 (84 summer sale) -- this is strange, might be discounted on appstore but not marked?
Lies of P: 192.99 / 274.99 (164.99 summer sale) -- same as above
RE Village: 71 / 179 (71 summer sale) -- price match
Return to Monkey Island: 69.99 / 114 (57 summer sale)
So:
It seems there are some sales on AppStore, but the sales are not marked. This is also borderline illegal in Poland, where merchants have to show not only the discount but also the lowest price in the last 30 days for any promotion (Steam does this). So you can see, anywhere, if something was recently discounted, if it's a fake discount and so on. This applies to any merchant when offering promos, including online stores, airlines, physical stores, digital items, etc.
RE Village seems to be the only one that matched the price, everything else was more expensive on Appstore.
Couldn't check standard prices on appstore because well, they don't show them.
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Just looked through my Steam history and it looks like $12.95
That explains my confusion
I read it was macOS compatibile but ended up buying windows version as that’s all I could find on steam, and it was half off
It was, you just missed it.
Valheim w Mac App Store - zniżka 50% z okazji premiery na macOS
Zniżka 50% w Mac App Store z okazji wydania Valheim dla macOS.Developer nie określił do kiedy będzie obowiązywać:The Mac version of course supports full
That’s because sales, on the App Store or the Mac App Store, are at distributor’s (usually the developers, not always true for games on the App Store, though) discretion. If you could persuade a bunch of indie distributors to do a summer sale, you could have a summer sale on the App Store (that is, sales are bottom up). Valve, I think, is in charge of the sales on Steam, making them top down (presumably there’s some revenue sharing or sales just drive enough sales on Steam to justify participation for most developers). I don’t think Apple wants to get involved in the latter, they’d have developers complaining if they did.
It’s on sale on steam for the summer sale
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Save 50% on Valheim on Steam
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
I was having 20-25 before, default was set on 720p and "Performance". Main impact had the Render scale slider after I reduced to 50%.
Any other recs?
But I'm noob AF, still don't know what to do in this game, got a cooking station and made some KFC stuff
)I remember when I played Minecraft with my buddy and he has over 2k hours and I was building 3x3x3 blocks things I was calling houses and he build an entire castle in a week I was shocked when I logged in and saw
)Compared to Rust, I liked it cos I can take it at my own pace. I couldn't stand Rust, looks fun when others are playing but hell no I'm already having a hard week at work I need to chill haha.