Boasting over 367,000 concurrent players today, and rapidly rising, viking survival game Valheim looks to be the fastest-growing viral hit ever on Steam. That means in just 12 days Valheim has accomplished a player count that would put many other massive, hit games to shame. Compared to same-genre hits like Rust, which has never reached a comparable point, or the similarly viral battle royale Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, which took just over three months in 2017 to reach more than 350,000 players, later peaking at nearly 3,000,000. If the trend continues, Valheim could easily be the biggest all-time viral hit on Steam, having already cracked into the top 10 last weekend.It's not even driven by massive hype from big Twitch streamers, as is often the case with hits like this. Check out this chart from SteamDB, which shows steady growth in viewership that flattens out rather than the kinds of massive spikes of viewership over player count that herald a wave of popularity from that kind of exposure. People are playing, not just watching, Valheim.
Boasting over 367,000 concurrent players today, and rapidly rising, viking survival game Valheim looks to be the fastest-growing viral hit ever on Steam.
