Steam sensation Valheim sold 5 million copies in one month
Breakout early access sensation Valheim, the Nordic-themed survival title taking the gaming world by storm, has sold more than 5 million copies since it launched on Steam on February 2nd, developer Iron Gate Studio announced on Wednesday. At a retail price of $19.99, that’s roughly $100 million in revenue before accounting for Valve’s cut and other expenses.
The Swedish studio developed the game with a team of just five people and released it on Steam’s Early Access platform in February, where it’s battled its way to the top five most played games on the entire platform with more than 500,000 concurrent players at one point last month. (It’s currently sitting at No. 4 on the Steam charts, behind only Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, D...