UPDATE 19/2/20: Popular Viking survival game Valheim has shifted another million copies in just four more days – making for an overall total of 3m units sold in just over two weeks.
The astonishing success comes alongside an equally strong performance on Twitch, where it regularly among the platform’s top-streamed titles. 20m hours of Valheim gameplay have been watched there so far.
This week set a new peak concurrent record of 390,000 Steam players – more than the all-time record for many AAA titles. Not bad for a game still in early access.
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ORIGINAL STORY 15/2/21: Valheim, the breakout viking survival hit from Swedish developer Iron Gate, has now sold over 2m copies in less than two weeks of early access release.
Valheim sets 1-10 players loose in a lushly lo-fi, procedurally-generated purgatory of dense forests, sparking oceans, and snowy mountain peaks, nudging them toward an eventual end-goal of reaching Asgard. Before that, though, there’s a heap of co-operative exploration, crafting, building, and battling to be done, as players gradually assemble the tools required to defeat powerful ancient beasts (and construct pleasingly homely huts along the way).