Valheim devs recommend Amon Amarth as background music
Sometimes it helps to stick on some tunes while playing a survival game like Valheim, to get in the mood, and keep energy levels high when foraging for supplies. If you’re looking for a recommendation, developer Iron Gate has exactly one in mind.
We asked Iron Gate CEO Richard Svensson what metal band is best paired with the Viking game, and he reckons there’s only one group for it. “Obviously anything by Amon Amarth!” He says. “That’s the music of the development of the game.”
If you’re unfamiliar, Amon Amarth are a Viking metal band. As in, they are a bunch of tall, bearded lads from Sweden with long hair who play massive riffs backed by thunderous drums, use growling vocals, and all their songs are about Norse history and mythology. It’s a match made in Valhalla, really. It’s comforting to know the team had the right kind of music on in the background when developing the open-world game. Songs like
Valheim has sold 5 million copies in a month
Valheim is the trending Viking survival game right now with millions of players building, fighting, and sailing to unknown lands. The game has been receiving hundreds of thousands of positive reviews from Steam users, and more players have been joining. Iron Gate Studio and Coffee Stain Publishing have announced today that 5 million units have been sold in just a month since the launch of Valheim on Steam Early Access. That’s not bad for a five-person indie development team.
Valheim is holding down the fort on Steam by having the fifth-highest peak concurrent player base in Steam history with 500,000 players last week. It is behind CS:GO, Dota 2, PUBG and Cyberpunk 2077. It has sold one more million copies in under a week, which added to its total of 5 million. The game is at the 39th spot for best user-reviewed games on Steam of all time, and if you combined players’ playtime, that’s 16,266 years of playing Valheim. Twitch users h