How many people are playing Valheim right now?

Valheim has 11,552 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 32,803 and an all-time peak of 498,478 on Feb 2021.

What is the all-time peak player count of Valheim?

498,478 concurrent players on Feb 2021.

When was Valheim released on Steam?

Valheim was released on Steam on 2 Feb 2021.

Valheim

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Steam user reviews · 541,556 written

Updated 25 hours ago

SteamPeaks Rating

94.1

Very positive · recent 93.9

Positive share

94.0%Very Positive

Last 30 days

89.0%−5.0 pts

1,824 reviews written

Played before writing

125.3 h

Median of 300 sampled reviews

Reviews per day

Mean over the last 30 days

How sentiment moved · share of new reviews that were positive

68 months on record

300 recent reviews sampled · back to 31 Aug 2026

Who is reviewing

Playtime at the moment each review was written

130.3 h

Median before a positive review

71.4 h

Median before a negative review

78%

Bought the game on Steam

1% arrived with a free key

Played mostly on Steam Deck

100% written during early access

Hours played	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Under 1 h	4	0	100%
1–5 h	13	1	93%
5–20 h	32	7	82%
20–50 h	31	4	89%
50–100 h	31	3	91%
Over 100 h	160	14	92%

Steam’s own totals per language

Where opinion splits

Against the lifetime share

Language	Reviews	Positive	Against overall
English	302,446	94.5%	+0.5 pts
Russian	72,262	92.2%	−1.8 pts
German	22,195	95.1%	+1.1 pts
Chinese, simplified	21,395	84.9%	−9.1 pts
Portuguese, Brazil	21,071	96.7%	+2.7 pts
Spanish	20,227	96.6%	+2.6 pts

Counted from the review histogram

Milestones

Days from the first reviewed month

Milestone	Reached	Days taken
1,000 reviews	Feb 2021	—	Reached in the first month on sale
10,000 reviews	Feb 2021	—	Reached in the first month on sale
100,000 reviews	Feb 2021	—	Reached in the first month on sale

Every month since Feb 2021

Review history

Exact counts from Valve’s histogram

Month	Reviews	Positive	Negative	Positive share
Sept 2026	231	209	22	90.5%
Aug 2026	1,929	1,720	209	89.2%
Jul 2026	2,596	2,270	326	87.4%
Jun 2026	1,947	1,704	243	87.5%
May 2026	2,022	1,696	326	83.9%
Apr 2026	2,209	1,914	295	86.6%
Mar 2026	2,957	2,605	352	88.1%
Feb 2026	2,606	2,222	384	85.3%

Counts per month and per day come from Valve’s review histogram, so they are exact. Playtime, purchase and language detail come from a sample of the most recent reviews; we keep no reviewer identity and no review text. The SteamPeaks Rating is a confidence-adjusted positive share. How it is computed