VALHEIM

V alheim is an easy game to fall in love with. The exploration, the crafting, the basebuilding—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 somehow makes the world