Valheim tops 500,000 simultaneous players, breaking four more records - The Verge

The Viking-themed indie survival game has been shooting up the Steam charts, selling 3 million copies in an unheard-of 17 days.

On Sunday, the game reached 500,000 simultaneous players, according to SteamDB, leaving the charred remains of four other all-time Steam player count records in its wake.

As of Friday, February 19th, the game had already passed Postal and Grand Theft Auto V to become the ninth most-played game on Steam at peak, but now it’s surpassed the records for Among Us, Life is Strange 2, Fallout 4, and Terraria to reach the No.