Valheim Rides Viking Gaming Mania To 5 Million Sales By Kilian FICHOU
03/11/21 AT 9:28 PM
If you ve felt a recent urge to unleash your inner Viking, you re not alone: millions of people have been riding the waves, swigging mead and slaying the enemy in a craze for the video game Valheim .
Designed by a tiny Swedish games studio, Valheim has proved an unexpected smash-hit, selling five million copies since its early-access release last month on the online gaming platform Steam.
At one point, more than half a million people were playing online simultaneously. We didn t expect this kind of success at all, said Henrik Tornqvist, co-founder of Iron Gate, the company behind it.
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