Valheim
BANGER · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 82.6h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was March 2024. It has been discounted 41 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 10 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terraria ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Smalland: Survive the Wilds ($34.99, scores 57).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,743 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 10,189 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
541,616 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Players
14.4K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Valheim is genuinely one of those games where you boot it up thinking "I'll play for like an hour" and suddenly it's 3 AM and you're building a medieval Scandinavian suburb in the middle of nowhere The atmosphere is immaculate. Sailing through fog, hearing the music kick in, finding a new biome, building a cozy ass house after getting absolutely violated by a troll… peak gaming. The progression is also really...
I have nearly 700 hours in this game at the time of writing this. Hands down, one of the best crafting survival games out there. Valheim sets the bar and paved the way for other games to follow. The progression system is top tier, the bosses are fantastic, the biome variety is excellent. There is tons to explore, many building options, and every adventure feels epic from defeating the first boss to just sailing the...
I purchased Valheim the exact month it entered Early Access back in February 2021. With the official 1.0 launch arriving in just three days, looking back on this journey has been incredible. Many people call this game "Viking Minecraft," and honestly, it wouldn't be incorrect to do so. It nails that core loop of gathering, crafting, and transforming a wild world. However, there are also elements here that will feel...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Valheim scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/892970/valheimThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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