Last week, the Falcons survival game Viking Crafting proudly announced that it had sold more than one million copies, a good thing for an early entry game. Well, Valheim is not done yet and is impressing Odin properly by doubling the number less than a week later. Valheim has now sold more than 2 million copies and blown its simultaneous Viking number out of the water to suit.
Valheim’s developers Iron Gate Studio have announced that they have now sold more than 2 million copies and that they have set a new simultaneous record of 360,000 for the past weekend. That’s more than double their record of 160,000 from last week.
“We did not really expect that,” said Iron Gate CEO Richard Svesson. “Our goal was to cover our development costs so that we could survive as a studio and work on Valheim. I think our future is safe for a while longer.”
“Valheim did not rush, it is a product of more than three years of iterative development with added features and tested in a core team of early adopters,” adds Svesson. ‘Even as a designer, I do not like to follow popular conventions, but try to go my own way, it seems to have worked out.
It does indeed seem to work out. Valheim currently has a 96% recommendation rate of over 37,000 user reviews on Steam, two more impressive numbers for an early access game.
I will be the first to admit that my initial reaction to Valheim was ‘bah, who wants more early access to survive?’ I thought I was getting tired of the usual vessels, but I really like building forts and doing bad bad things while my friends are screaming next to me, so I have to admit I caught a case of envy. Golly, watching other people having fun on the internet has landed me in Fasmophobia, which I’m not going to keep quiet about right now. I think I’ll see you all back here in about a week. Keep me mead, and all.
Valheim plans to have access at least a year early. Iron Gate has plans for four updates during 2021 in their roadmap, including a new Mistlands biome for their procedurally generated purgatory.
If you are my lead in this curve, you can visit the Valheim tips from RPS and our guide to setting up a Valheim server for your Viking friends.
You can buy Valheim yourself on Steam for £ 16 / € 17 / $ 20.