VALHEIM

Valheimis an easy game to fall in love with. The exploration, the crafting, the base-building – all of it had me hurrying through real-life tasks so I could get back to the Viking afterlife as quickly as possible. I honestly didn’t think I could have been any more excited about it – and then I found out that not only are there wolves in the game, but you can tame them too.

To say I got a little carried away may be a bit of an understatement. Two wolves became three, became ten, then suddenly it seemed like my entire base – and the surrounding countryside – was inundated with the goodest of boys (and, apparently, girls). And they aren’t limited to my base either. I’ll often be sailing down a river and see a wolf on the bank chasing some poor deer into the water. It