Valheim, a Viking survival game made by a team of just five, has sold two million copies in less than two weeks. That’s … wear the five … divide by nine … a million copies a week!
It was only Friday Nathan wrote a post celebrating Norwegian nerve, an article so good that I installed the game before it was halfway through reading. Looks like I joined quite a lot of people.
It’s fair to say that things are going pretty well for the first time with the indie team Iron Gate. Launching the game on Steam Early Access a few Tuesdays ago, it has since sold over two million copies, the developers revealed today in a post.
Their joy is quite pleasing to look at. “Everyone at Iron Gate really appreciated all the messages, love, questions and thoughts from all of you, so please continue!” they say. “And again, thank you all for helping us reach this ridiculous stage in less than two weeks of sailing to Early Access.”
“Forget about long boats,” adds Iron Gate, deciding to give up our history. “[We] now we have a record of over 700 years old, boasting the largest Viking population in all of human history. For reference, the previous peak of the Viking number was established in 1300 AD. and was about 500,000. ”
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In fact, they got damn close to a live reunion, with 360,000 players competing over the weekend. And this is less than two weeks into a planned early access development throughout the year. My math behind a Google estimates that $ 28 million and Coffee Stain will come to them after you take out Valve’s strong tithe. Which means life-changing money.
I find it quite exciting that this can still happen on Steam. It seemed for a moment there that the days of one Pilda Stanley-The type of overnight indie success ended, until the more recent and sudden success of those like Among us and All the boys. Kudos, Iron Gate. Just don’t go crazy, but definitely buy a castle.