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Valheim, the breakout viking survival game from developer Iron Gate, shows no signs of slowing, having now sold over 2m copies in less than two weeks of early access release.<\/p>\n

Iron Gate launched Valheim into Steam early access<\/a> on 2nd February, and its popularity quickly skyrocketed. It celebrated a peak of 160,000 concurrent players<\/a> within its first week of release, and that’s more than doubled in the days since, topping 367,000 concurrents as of today.<\/p>\n

Those numbers, if you’re wondering, have pushed it passed such perennial Steam favourites as Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Ark: Survival Evolved, with only the likes of Dota 2 and Counter-Strike remaining unbothered in the concurrent rankings.<\/p>\n

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Valheim, the breakout viking survival game from developer Iron Gate, shows no signs of slowing, having now sold over 2m copies in less than two weeks of early access release. Iron Gate launched Valheim into Steam early access on 2nd February, and its popularity quickly skyrocketed. It celebrated a peak of 160,000 concurrent players within its first week of release, and that’s more than doubled in the days since, topping 367,000 concurrents as of today. Those numbers, if you’re wondering, have pushed it passed such perennial Steam favourites as Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Ark: Survival Evolved, with only the likes of Dota 2 and Counter-Strike remaining unbothered in the concurrent rankings. 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