Valheim Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-09
- Great with friends
- Satisfying progression system
- Beautiful open-world exploration
- Frustrating ore teleportation restrictions
- Mistlands biome poor visibility
- Excessively grindy gameplay
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 542,505
- Positive
- 509,94494.0%
- Negative
- 32,5616.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 23,240,134
- Estimated revenue
- $696,971,619
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 510.49%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,185
- Estimated revenue lost
- $65,528
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 510.5% Avg playtime 1h | 600.6% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,54914.8% Avg playtime 178.6h | 8,80884.1% Avg playtime 327.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 5.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 24.8 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 302.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,043.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
10,468 total
Organic purchasers8,48181.0%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations1,98719.0%
Voted up: 86%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
10,468 total
First impression0-2h1501.43%
Voted up: 61%
Mid game2-10h7457.12%
Voted up: 79%
Late game10-20h7367.03%
Voted up: 82%
Endgame20h+8,83784.4%
Voted up: 86%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.5%
Global baseline 84.7%
88 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 542,505 total.