Valheim is now one of the most successful survival games on Steam with two million sold

I had given a few euros last year on Itch to encourage this project running on Linux.
I now bought it on Steam (thanks to user reviews) and find it very nice.

But 7 Days to Die remains my favorite.

Do we know the percentage of games sold on Linux ?

Congrats to the developers for the success. Every indie dreams of hitting big and they did it.

Lets hope the success continue and they make a name for themselves for keeping the game as bug-free and performant as possible.


Last edited by M@GOid on 16 February 2021 at 11:40 am UTC

I would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

Quoting: Guestbut what else is new in this price range and genre/style?

That's the thing, since when indie survival games even had a chance to get that popular? Everyone was talking about that the genre is dying partly because at one point almost every indie dev did their own survival game and market was flooded by broken/unfinished alphas. So there certainly are unknown surv games out there in this price range but they have failed to gain popularity for some reason. Valheim just came and took it all in days!


Last edited by woox2k on 16 February 2021 at 1:00 pm UTC

Y'know? I feel almost an uncle's pride about this --- just because I loved this game way back when it was a little itch in its parents io. Maybe it's because its been a Linux title since the very beginning ... I feel like its "one of ours," and it's gone into the world and "done good."

Sigh. I still have screen shots of the itch version. It was so darn cute.


Last edited by Nanobang on 16 February 2021 at 1:05 pm UTC

Quoting: NanobangI feel like its "one of ours," and it's gone into the world and "done good."

Indeed, i also got tens of hours of fun when playing the alpha. Don't get too carried away with this Linux thing though. Pretty much noone will ever know or care that it was partly developed on Linux and had day 0 support. Only Linux people will talk about it, like Arch people advertise their distro of choice.


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Anyone have experience with multiplayer cross platform? Curious about this game, so how hard is it to host a game with a windows, mac and linix mix?

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

I haven't played it, but I've seen that there are a lot of streamers/influensers on social media praising it. I'm sure that has something to do with it's sudden popularity.

I've been having a blast with Valheim. It's a lot more polished than I expected from early access, though I do hope they use some of the money they are generating to improve the stiff animations and to give the UI some love. Runs great otherwise, I haven't encountered a single crash or bug so far.


Last edited by Keyrock on 16 February 2021 at 1:54 pm UTC

Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

I haven't played it, but I've seen that there are a lot of streamers/influensers on social media praising it. I'm sure that has something to do with it's sudden popularity.

I watched some of one popular streamer playing it, and while he was very impressed with how pretty the game is, how well it runs, and many of the early aspects, by a couple of sessions in the bloom was coming off the rose and he started to get more lukewarm about it. All the other stuff was still true, but he was disappointed by small dungeons, lack of enemy variety, and how the procedurally generated terrain was very "same"-y. As in, other than a point of interest being plunked down in an otherwise nondescript (and identical to other chunks of forest), there weren't really dramatic things to break up each type of terrain.

I'm sure the early first session drove a bunch of sales though, since he was praising it a fair bit and has a fan base that trusts his judgment on this stuff (he's pretty analytical about design).

Quoting: LosButchAnyone have experience with multiplayer cross platform? Curious about this game, so how hard is it to host a game with a windows, mac and linix mix?

It's fully cross-platform between Windows and Linux. It's not available for macOS.

It seems there's some crazy reinforcing loops going on nowadays leading to such numbers.

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

Its multiple things really. Survival games that have been recently released, are all been buggy as hell.

Valheim i think took off because: high level of polish, Interesting different setting, covid pandemic, people sit at home and want to play something, Youtubers/Twichers started to praise it right away, Exploration and Discovery aspects that often other survival games kinda lack of and ofc the release timeframe was also spot on, people who got burned with cyberpunk and the likes just wanted to get something to play and there hasnt been much interesting releases lately, so valheim had lucky timing also


Last edited by Xpander on 16 February 2021 at 3:07 pm UTC

Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

I haven't played it, but I've seen that there are a lot of streamers/influensers on social media praising it. I'm sure that has something to do with it's sudden popularity.

Friend mentioned that they were interested in it because "Call me Kevin" had been streaming it a bunch.


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Quoting: LosButchAnyone have experience with multiplayer cross platform? Curious about this game, so how hard is it to host a game with a windows, mac and linix mix?

Just anecdotally... My nephew (Windows) and I (Linux) played some multiplayer recently where he hosted the game and it ran without issues. I haven't played much on any servers or anything, but direct multiplayer seemed fine to me :)

I'm on the fence actually buying it. I haven't bought it immediately only because I'm trying to finish some other games first.

I have felt bit that on Linux side there's bit of void in survival games, especially ones with also base building. Put 3D on top of that and then it's pretty much ARK (quite buggy) and Rust (which might not be the friendliest multiplayer game). Rest are missing the positive buzz or are lacking in some other ways like they don't have much visual appeal (which is not everything, but still...).

I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHY.
Crap graphics(low polly). Clear alpha quality. Performance is utter crap.(playable, with low polly where you see individual squares on items it is playable, but on my decent rig i get around 60 fps and no, i get more sometimes, so no vsync)
Single player is marginally worse than multiplayer. And multiplayer is plain boring.
No character progression not counting crafting techniques.
Killed first two bosses so far, monster are bland and non exciting. Typical damage sponges. Battle is decent, but absolutely NOTHING to write home about.

Some events happen. Once a few in game days monsters will attack you in your fort. 4-5 monsters will come. Which if you are smart you will disp

Do yourself a favour and buy 7 days to die.

Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: LosButchAnyone have experience with multiplayer cross platform? Curious about this game, so how hard is it to host a game with a windows, mac and linix mix?

Just anecdotally... My nephew (Windows) and I (Linux) played some multiplayer recently where he hosted the game and it ran without issues. I haven't played much on any servers or anything, but direct multiplayer seemed fine to me :)

Great, thanks. Will probably give it a try when we are done with Divinity 2 then :-)

Lol

Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiI have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHY.
Crap graphics(low polly). Clear alpha quality. Performance is utter crap.(playable, with low polly where you see individual squares on items it is playable, but on my decent rig i get around 60 fps and no, i get more sometimes, so no vsync)
Single player is marginally worse than multiplayer. And multiplayer is plain boring.
No character progression not counting crafting techniques.
Killed first two bosses so far, monster are bland and non exciting. Typical damage sponges. Battle is decent, but absolutely NOTHING to write home about.

Some events happen. Once a few in game days monsters will attack you in your fort. 4-5 monsters will come. Which if you are smart you will disp

Do yourself a favour and buy 7 days to die.

Have only seen a bit of streaming, but it seems like the low poly thing is part of the design and how its supposed to look. Personally I like the style :-) Looking for a multiplayer coop game that doesent require too much brain power, so this sounds like a good one.

Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiI have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHY.
Crap graphics(low polly). Clear alpha quality. Performance is utter crap.(playable, with low polly where you see individual squares on items it is playable, but on my decent rig i get around 60 fps and no, i get more sometimes, so no vsync)
Single player is marginally worse than multiplayer. And multiplayer is plain boring.

It sounds like you don't have any friends that play then? I've got 7 on my server and it's been a blast together. Playing with random people doesn't sound fun to me.

Also, I really like the art style. Much better than the hyper realistic approach which ends up looking dated after a few years.

7 days to die is a very ugly game with some newer assets thrown in and performs even worse.

Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiNo character progression not counting crafting techniques.
Killed first two bosses so far, monster are bland and non exciting. Typical damage sponges. Battle is decent, but absolutely NOTHING to write home about.

Some events happen. Once a few in game days monsters will attack you in your fort. 4-5 monsters will come. Which if you are smart you will disp

Do yourself a favour and buy 7 days to die.

LOL, there is player progression. Your skills. They go down by 25% if you die.

This game is leagues more polished and performant than 7 Days to Die, which what, has been in development since 2014? I mean it when I say the state of this game right now puts a lot of other released games (and some EA ones) to shame and 7 Days is on that list.

Try OpenGL if your vulkan performance isn't that great. I can't tell what GPU you have but on AMD currently OpenGL is better.