Valheim
Iron Gate AB · Coffee Stain Publishing
Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox: you gather, build, sail, and fight biome bosses on a world you keep. Co-op building is the spine.
What kind of game is it?
Open-world survival craft: gather, build, sail, fight biome bosses. Progression is tied to the world you keep, not to a single run.
Who is it for?
For players who love gathering, sailing, and raising a hall before the next boss.
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- Loop
- Exploring a map
- Sessions
- Long sessions
- Progression
- A world that stays
- Players
- Co-op
- Structure
- Sandbox
- Tone
- Epic · Challenging
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression80
Estimate
- Social78
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 13 Sept 2026.
2021-02-02
Checked 17 Aug 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
How many people play Valheim?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55.
Copies × current price × 50–80% (sales, regional prices). Before Steam's cut, refunds and tax.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 30,973.
Half of 300 recent reviewers played 38.5–268.6 h. 0% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- English57%
- Russian13%
- Simplified Chinese5%
- Spanish (Spain)4%
- Portuguese (Brazil)3%
- Turkish3%
Valheim players also play
Games played for more than an hour in 48 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).
- V Rising27% · ×5.1
- Abiotic Factor21% · ×7.5
- Outward17% · ×9.6
- Raft35% · ×2.7
- HELLDIVERS™ 238% · ×2.5
- Terraria56% · ×1.8
- 7 Days to Die31% · ×2.7
- PAYDAY 244% · ×2
- Deep Rock Galactic33% · ×2.4
- Warframe40% · ×2.1
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
The tone is mythic. Sailing and vertical building give the sandbox a direction: gather, raise a hall, then sail toward the next biome boss.
Core mechanics
Similar games
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Related games
Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.
Genre / subgenre
Subgenres: Open world survival craft.
Steam genre: Open World Survival Craft.
Related rankings
Valheim — launch intelligence
Five people, Early Access, no Steam achievements, no store demo. 540,159 reviews in the survival corpus. The genre’s anti-checklist.
Store price checked 13 Sept 2026.
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