![]() ![]() From what we can see, there's no other survival game on Steam that's had such a remarkable launch. Among Us was also fuelled by streamer culture, something which hasn’t been a notable part of Valheim’s success. It’s particularly notable how close to launch all this comes while Among Us has a higher all-time peak at 447,476, it took over a year for the game to catch on, spending much of its life with barely a few hundred players. But it certainly is one of, if not the biggest indie success story on the platform. Because of AAA, Valheim can’t quite claim to be the fastest growing game on Steam ever. The RPG started life at an all-time high of over a million players, but had less players than Valheim currently has within a fortnight. Indeed, the curve of Cyberpunk 2077 is essentially the complete inverse of Valheim’s. But these games tend to peak immediately at launch and then quickly taper off. This means the only truly comparable games, numbers wise, are major AAA titles. But even PUBG, which launched in March 2017, took three months to hit more than Valheim's current high of simultaneous players, with a then-high of 382,779 concurrent back on July 10, 2017. This puts Valheim’s growth far ahead of its genre competition, and more in line with the viral explosion of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Rust, meanwhile, hit its all-time peak of 245,243 in January 2021. ![]() ARK’s all-time peak is 157,400, which it hit in March 2020. ARK had a much faster trajectory after launching in June 2105, it hit over 100,000 concurrent players in January 2017. Despite launching in early access in 2014, Rust only hit more than 100,000 concurrent players as recently as March 2020. For a better comparison, look at the two survival games that stay almost cemented near the top of the Steam most played list Rust and ARK. As such, Valheim is already bigger than Terraria has been for almost all of its lifetime. On a normal day, Terraria pulls in around 30-50,000 players, with its prior highest peak occurring on June 29, 2015, with 159,171 players. It should be noted that this was a short and unusual spike caused by the announcement and launch of Terraria’s final ever update. The only barrier to Valheim claiming the crown of ‘most concurrent players of a survival game ever’ is the all-time high held by Terraria, which hit 489,886 players in May 2020. ![]()
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