'Valheim' Surpasses 5.7 million Copies Sold in five Weeks on Steam Early Access

Valheim was launched on Steam exactly five weeks ago, and has been on fire since then. Iron Gate's Viking survival sim has soared up the charts, achieving 5 million copies sold after just one month of Early Access and surpassing huge titles like Dota 2 in terms of concurrent active players.
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Valheim Steam reviews exude a sense of excitement, awe and relief. Players regularly compare the feeling to the first time they played Minecraft admiring the game's scope as well as its depth and atmosphere, and questioning the way a team of five developers managed to squeeze such an engrossing experience into a single GB download. Valheim lets players explore a unique realm of Viking purgatory. The world is created procedurally and filled with mythical Norse creatures and high seas hunting crafting, and much more. It's dense and tolerant exciting and peaceful.

Iron Gate has sold more than 5.7 million copies to date in Valheim. The development team currently has five members. Turn on browser notifications to receive news alerts for breaking news from Engadget You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. Not nowTurned onTurned onTurned

Henrik Tornqvist, Iron Gate cofounder, told Engadget that "we're doing our best." "It has been pretty hectic around here since launch."

Tornqvist and Richard Svensson, the studio founder, are planning to hire a few more people to help with the flood of bug reports coming from thousands of beta testers. Other than that, it's receiving support from Coffee Stain Publishing - the folks responsible for Goat Simulator, a veritable granddaddy of viral video games.

Svensson began working on Valheim in 2017 as an extra-curricular venture. In the day, he and Tornqvist were co-workers at Swedish studio Pieces Interactive, but by the end of 2018, Svensson had left to focus fully on Valheim.