Valheim takes control of Steam and Twitch despite early access

Iron Gate AB’s Viking survival game Valheim has taken over Steam and Twitch after launching in Early Access last week. -op available for up to 10 players. It is currently only available on PC through Steam.

The game currently tops Steam’s best seller list (measured by total revenue, rather than number of sales), where it has grown throughout the past week, beating games like Nioh. 2 and Football Manager 2021. With an overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam, it’s clearly going well with those who bought it too, and the player’s stats only confirm his popularity.

Registering over 130,000 concurrent players at its peak, Valheim is also rapidly increasing the rankings for Steam player counts. At the time of writing, the game sits comfortably in the Top 10 games on Steam, just below Rust and Rainbow Six: Siege, and currently has more players than some Steam stalwarts such as Rocket League, Path of Exile, Civilization VI and Warframe.

On Twitch, the game is also very popular with mainstream streamers, appearing in top categories. Esports Charts lists the game at around 31,000 average viewers since its release, peaking at 81,392 – you can probably expect this to continue growing at the current speed.

In other Steam news, here’s what Valve’s Gabe Newell thinks brain-computer interfaces will do for games. Steam was recently fined by the EU for alleged “geo-blocking”.

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