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ActionAdventureIndieRPGOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen WorldMultiplayer

Valheim

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Developer
Iron Gate AB
Publisher
Coffee Stain Publishing
Franchise
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Release date
Sep 9, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 15, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

79.1/ 100

Based on 414 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 84% of 8,126
All time 😄 Very Positive 94% of 549,722
“at its core Valheim is a fun game to play”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.86
Difficulty -0.32
“Nordic suffering tycoon, emotionally abused by nature, repeatedly dying” (60)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.05
World +3.54
“atmosphere carries it hard, world has cohesion most survival games never achieve” (45)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.79
Volume +2.63

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.47
Visuals +3.31
“building system feels less like a drag than in other games” (29)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+1.18
Playing together +3.18
“playing with partner provides comfort and cherished memories” (60)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-2.17
Balance -2.65

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.94
Developer support -1.33
“glacial development pace, two biomes in five years” (23)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Feb 2021Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 7,726 reviews, peak 1,393/day
01k2k
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 414 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English32%
  • Russian19%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Spanish8%
  • Chinese8%
  • German5%
  • Other18%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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