{"id":107535,"date":"2026-04-28T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2136113"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:14:18","slug":"steam-hit-valheim-sells-1m-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/steam-hit-valheim-sells-1m-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam hit Valheim sells 1m in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/steam-hit-valheim-sells-1m-in-a-week.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steam hit Valheim has sold over 1m copies in just a week, its publisher has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Viking-themed survival and crafting game launched as an Early Access title on 2nd February, and quickly rose to the upper echelons of Steam and Twitch.<\/p>\n<p>Valheim hit a peak of 160,000 concurrent users on Steam, and had over 127,000 peak viewers on Twitch during its first week on sale. As it happens, our Aoife, Zoe and Ian are playing Valheim live now in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-10-steam-hit-valheim-sells-1m-in-a-week\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-10-steam-hit-valheim-sells-1m-in-a-week\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam hit Valheim has sold over 1m copies in just a week, its publisher has said. The Viking-themed survival and crafting game launched as an Early Access title on 2nd February, and quickly rose to the upper echelons of Steam and Twitch. Valheim hit a peak of 160,000 concurrent users on Steam, and had over 127,000 peak viewers on Twitch during its first week on sale. As it happens, our Aoife, Zoe and Ian are playing Valheim live now in the video below: Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steam hit Valheim sells 1m in a week | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Steam hit Valheim has sold over 1m copies in just a week, its publisher has said.The Viking-themed survival and crafting game launched as an Early Access\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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