9 - Valheim (PC 2021) - ENDLESS - This game came out of nowhere for me, I was watching a streamer playing Rust, this game kept coming up, so I looked it over and it seemed like my kinda game, though it was in Early Access, and 80 hours later, I think I ended up liking it lol This is a survival/crafting game, with a 90's era aesthetic to the visuals, and a viking theme. Comparable games to me would be like Minecraft and Terraria, that sorta level of build a base, get your gear, upgrade it, fight bosses, progress to the next gear type, etc...The "survival" aspect is actually sorta minimal, like you can't starve, you don't need to drink, you don't technically need to eat, as eating just increases your healthbar for a time. You can die and all your gear drops in that spot for you to get back to it, which can be tough if you die far away from your current bed respawn.
The crafting part is more where the game shines for me, you get a lot of freedom to how you want to build, within a couple basic rules based on building stability and rain damage that requires most built thing others than stone and I think the core wood beams to have a roof above it. On top of this, you can basically terraform the terrain, leveling it out, digging deeper, filling up spots, so you can turn a lot of areas into sorta whatever setup you want. You can farm the few available plants/veggies, you can tame boars for food, you got 5 different biomes I believe currently, each with their own enemies and such, you can craft viking longboats to explore, and there are 5 fleshed out bosses already with more to come.
It is in early access, with a small development team, but it apparently has been in development for like 2 years, and it shows, because if they had just spent a couple more months on this, filled in some of the gaps, clean up some of the wonkiness, released it for 20 to 30 dollars, it would be worth it right there. It runs well, the 90's polygonal design with pixelated textures is kinda unique and probably helps that performance, it's got a large procedurally generated world, and you can play it co-op if you want to. It's become ridiculously successful, hitting 4 million sales in less than a few weeks, so it'll definitely got the support it needs. Highly recommend this game if you are into these types of farm and grind games.