Overview

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• Coffee Stain PublishingValheim's publisher: the label of Coffee Stain, the Skövde company behind Goat Simulator and Satisfactory, which owns 30% of Iron Gate, spent seven years inside Embracer and has traded on its own as Coffee Stain Group since December 2025.
• Development HistoryHow Valheim went from Richard Svensson's 2017 side project "Fejd" through a record-breaking 2021 early-access launch, a torn-up roadmap, seven major updates and three console ports to its 1.0 release on Sep 9, 2026.
• Iron Gate StudioIron Gate Studio (Iron Gate AB) is the small Swedish developer of Valheim, founded in Skövde by Richard Svensson and Henrik Törnqvist. It grew from a solo prototype called Fejd into a sixteen-person studio, part-owned by Coffee Stain, that says there will be no Valheim 2.
• Lore and SettingValheim is the tenth world, cut loose from Yggdrasil by Odin as a prison for his deathless foes. Slain Vikings are carried there by Valkyries to slay the eight Forsaken, guided by the raven Hugin, and with 1.0 the story finally has an ending.
• Platforms and System RequirementsWhere Valheim is sold and what it runs on: Steam, Microsoft Store, Mac App Store, Humble, Xbox, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, with release dates, porting partners, PC/Mac/Linux requirements, download sizes, Steam Deck status and the 1.0 draw-distance setting.
• Reception and SalesHow critics and players received Valheim from its 2021 early-access debut to the 1.0 release of September 2026 and the month after: review scores, awards and nominations, sales milestones and Steam player-count records.
• SoundtrackPatrik Jarlestam's score for Valheim: the 2021 soundtrack release, the biome, location and boss themes, and the music added with Mistlands, Ashlands and the 1.0 Deep North release.
• ValheimValheim is an open-world survival game for one to ten players, developed by Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. It entered Steam early access in February 2021 and reached its full 1.0 release on Sep 9, 2026.
• Valheim 1.0 ReleaseValheim left early access on Sep 9, 2026 with the Deep North biome, a final boss, an ending, a price rise to $29.99 and simultaneous PS5 and Switch 2 launches with full cross-play, drawing more than 300,000 concurrent Steam players on its first weekend and a Metacritic score of 89.

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