Valheim beat Dota 2 and PUBG for Steam players during the last weekend

Valheim is acquiring to be pretty big satisfactory now, in case you haven't noticed. The Viking-themed survival game has rocketed to iii million sales in around two-and-a-half weeks of launching. As you derriere imagine, that leads to oodles of players, too. Just over the weekend, Valheim hit a peak of 500,000 concurrent players connected Steam. To put under information technology some other way, that was more players than Steamer stalwarts Dota 2 and PUBG at unrivalled degree.

Going by SteamDB, Valheim smashed its concurrent player record happening Sunday when it hit 502,387 players. For large stretches, IT was second only to Cs:GO, which meant it sailed past Dota 2 and PUBG. Dota 2 had racked up 635,217 players earlier in the 24-hour interval, and has since gone on to take the spot back. PUBG, on the other paw, has also gone on to place above Valheim again, though its peak over the past 24 hours sits at 440,972. Numbers aside, it's an noble stint from the newcomer.

IT looks like Valheim is still mounting, too. The Viking gritty smashed its previous player record but the day before when it hit around 400,000 people. The achiever is lovely to see, and one of my favourite things to come of it has been interesting builds on the subreddit. We've already seen somebody craftsmanship the Millenary Falcon from Stellar Wars, and Skyrim's High Hrothgar – real good.

If you've been out of the loop topology, Valheim is a Viking-influenced survival game that tasks you with building a base and crafting supplies before you get along after bosses. They typically put on't spawn unless you lure them out, so you don't have to worry about them trampling on everything.

Here's a trailer if you're incisive to see what information technology's every about: