The other day, I saw a game named Valheim atop the Steam Early Access sales charts, with overwhelmingly positive reviews. Polygon seemed to like the $20 Viking-themed survival game, and I thought friends might like it, too. I wasn’t ready to commit quite yet — I waffled a while before giving it a go. Know who bought it while I was making up my mind? One million other people.
On February 10th, just eight days after launch, indie developer Iron Gate announced that Valheim had already sold 1 million copies. Five days after that, Valheim reached 2 million sales. On Friday February 19th, two days after we originally published this post, it hit 3 million sales. We're now at 4 million as of February 24th.
Here are a few other facts you might like to know:
- It has now been the second-most played game on all of Steam at many occasions, ahead of every game save Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and it’s comfortably trading blows with Dota 2 and PUBG for the #2 and #3 slots each day.
- It’s already set a top-ten record for concurrent players on Steam with roughly 392,000 on Monday, knocking Grand Theft Auto V off that top 10 chart.
- By Friday the 19th, it took the #9 spot with 410,000 players, pulling Postal down one rung.
- By the 21st, it crossed 500,000 simultaneous players to claim the #5 slot, bumping four more games down.
- It topped the Steam Top Sellers list during Valve’s Steam Lunar New Year sale — despite having zero discounts.
- Developer Iron Gate says it's already been played for a total of 10,000 years.
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