With millions of players and a significant presence on streaming services, Valheim is the latest game to achieve widespread viral success, shooting to the top of Steam's sales charts. Today, the studio behind the popular survival game announced that the title had hit yet another financial milestone, climbing to 5 million sales only a month after its initial debut.
The announcement was made via the title's Steam page, with a representative for the team over at Iron Gate revealing several key milestones Valheim has achieved since its debut. The biggest was the monumental rise in sales, which marks yet another major accolade for the studio following four weeks of headlining Steam's charts.
The game has also reportedly become the 39th best-reviewed game on the PC storefront, while it also boasts 35 million hours of gameplay over on Twitch. In total, the playerbase has also allegedly spent the equivalent of 15,000 years playing the game. It's another impressive lineup of statistics that prove Valheim has quickly become one of this year's most prevalent sleeper hits, finding the same success as indie games like Fall Guys, Phasmophobia, and Among Us.
The studio concludes its update by thanking players, highlighting how the five-person team has been motivated to continue evolving Valheim due to the passionate support of its community. It will allegedly be sharing more with players in the coming months and hopes to offer a firm roadmap for the game going into 2021. Valheim originally launched back on February 2, quickly establishing itself as a significant force on the PC marketplace. It's available to play now in early access, with Iron Gate working hard to fine-tune it into a bigger experience alongside feedback from fans.
For those who aren't acquainted with Valheim, it's a survival-focused online game set within a world inspired by Norse mythology. Players group together to endure procedurally generated environments, having to battle against enemies, construct large settlements, and sail the seas in longships. The game allows up to 10 players to join in on its Viking adventures and has since found a large following on streaming sites due to its compelling gameplay. It has also dominated the very top of the Steam charts ever since its release, beating out the likes of Outriders, Rust, Grand Theft Auto 5, Persona 5 Strikers, Cyberpunk 2077, and Nioh 2 - Complete Edition.
The title has already gotten the creative juices flowing for a variety of players, the likes of which have created everything from Sauron's Tower from Lord of the Rings to Whiterun from Skyrim. It'll be interesting to see where its developers take the project next.
Valheim is out now PC.
Source: Steam - Iron Gate