Best with friends in co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Extremely fun alone and especially with friends! Scratches the creative itch!”
Steam review · 123 h played ↗
Valheim
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Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%Iron Gate AB2026Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
The verdict
A beautiful, atmospheric Viking survival game with excellent building and co-op, but its mid-to-late game is a heavy grind. Skip it if you hate tedium or corpse runs.
Great for
Co-op groups who enjoy building, exploring and slow, punishing progression through biomes
Main risk
Grind and tedium (metal hauling, corpse runs, missing QoL) wear you out after the early biomes
What changed in the last 30 days
185 recent reviews
Many recent reviews say 1.0 brought corrupted or lost saves, a bugged final boss, trophy drop bugs and server lag, and that it lacked the hoped-for QoL. Fairly consistent across recent negatives.
185 recent reviews
What players love
Atmospheric, beautiful world and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The atmosphere in this game is simply unmatched.”
Steam review · 130.7 h played ↗
Satisfying, creative building system
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The building system is excellent—flexible, intuitive, and creative without being overwhelming.”
Steam review · 2144.8 h played ↗
Rewarding biome and boss progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“you're always prepping for the next biome / next boss, leveling up your gear and being humbled as you work your way into the next stages of the game.”
Steam review · 410.7 h played ↗
Huge replayability and content
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The game with the most replayability I have ever experienced.”
Steam review · 2741.4 h played ↗
Runs well on modest hardware
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“Game runs on a potato but still looks amazing on max settings.”
Steam review · 43.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Excessive grind and tedium
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“This is the most unnecessarily grindy, frustrating and unrewarding survival game I have ever had the misfortune to play.”
Steam review · 99.8 h played ↗
Slow development and disappointing 1.0
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Quality gameplay but glacial development pace. There's been two biomes added in the last 5 years.”
Steam review · 181.3 h played ↗
Missing quality-of-life features
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“No craft from containers or auto-store from inventory is an automatic thumbs down from me.”
Steam review · 2481.1 h played ↗
Punishing difficulty and death penalty
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“a single 1 star fuling can one shot you”
Steam review · 760.7 h played ↗
Bugs, corrupted saves and bugged bosses
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“1.0 changed the way save files work and they get corrupted way to often. 200 hours of world building lost, even backups were corrupted”
Steam review · 562.3 h played ↗
Late biomes (Mistlands, Ashlands) disliked
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“the mistlands make this game not fun”
Steam review · 346.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support1 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 or later
Processor2.6 GHz Quad Core or similar
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970
Storage1 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 or later
Processori5 3GHz or Ryzen 5 3GHz
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580
Storage1 GB available space
OSWindows 10 or later
Processor2.6 GHz Quad Core or similar
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970
Storage1 GB available space
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