How many copies has Valheim sold?

indielist estimates Valheim has sold between 20,518,740 and 47,877,060 units (median 34,197,900), derived from its 455,972 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Valheim?

Valheim was published by Coffee Stain Publishing, developed by Iron Gate AB. See Coffee Stain Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Valheim have on Steam?

Valheim has 455,972 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Valheim worth playing?

Steam players rate Valheim 94% positive across 455,972 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Valheim

Feb 2, 2021 Action $19.99

Developer Iron Gate AB Publisher Coffee Stain Publishing

Profile updated May 2026

Valheim is an action-adventure RPG released in 2021, currently in Early Access. It has garnered over 451,954 positive reviews on Steam. The developer is unknown and the publisher attribution is not yet imported.

Valheim is a 2021 Action game developed by Iron Gate AB and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 455,972 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Iron Gate AB with publisher Coffee Stain Publishing is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 20.5 million to 47.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Valheim can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

455,972

Positive

94%

Steam appid

892970

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

15,078

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:10 UTC · 24h peak 26,694

Sales estimate

v1.0

20.5M to 47.9M

units (median: 34.2M)

≈ $234.3M to $546.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

20.5M median 47.9M

+ How is this calculated?

455,972 reviews × NB(75) = 34,197,900 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_94%	+10
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Valheim at roughly 20.5 million to 47.9 million copies, with a median around 34.2 million, derived from its 455,972 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $390.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-16.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Valheim sold?: indielist estimates Valheim has sold between 20,518,740 and 47,877,060 units (median 34,197,900), derived from its 455,972 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Valheim?: Valheim was developed by Iron Gate AB and published by Coffee Stain Publishing.
Who published Valheim?: Valheim was published by Coffee Stain Publishing, developed by Iron Gate AB. See Coffee Stain Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Valheim released?: Valheim was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Valheim have on Steam?: Valheim has 455,972 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Valheim worth playing?: Steam players rate Valheim 94% positive across 455,972 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Valheim can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Voidtrain, Scrap Mechanic, Enshrouded, Necesse, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Iron Gate AB's other releases and Coffee Stain Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Valheim sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Valheim page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.