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Issy van der Velde

THE TRUTH ABOUT: For five months there was one programmer fixing bugs valheim devs were not prepared for their viking survival game s explosive success - Caught on Camera

Valheim.

When Valheim first launched in early access in 2021, it seemed like the Viking-inpsired survival game was all anybody could talk about. Now, four years and millions of sales later, the developers reflect on their indie project's success.

"It was just five of us going into early access," lead developer Robin Eyre tells GamesRadar+ at Gamescom. "I was hoping for 20,000 sales [...] When we were getting one million sales every week for eight weeks, we were on top of Steam charts, I was like, 'what is going on?'"

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