The success of Valheim and the people behind it all 

This is exactly what you want to see when it comes to the people developing a game that you love. Passionate and dedicated team, lead by a reclusive and mysterious programmer.

I am 30 years old. I have been playing video games since I could hold a controller. When I was young, video games filled me with wonder and a sense of discovery….a feeling I haven’t felt in video games and many years… Thank you iron gate, Valheim made me experience that feeling again.

I cannot express how great this game is. This game has a foundation to be one of the best game ever created. Ever. Please do not sell your studios. You have an eye for a marvelous game and the community supports and agrees with your vision. Valhalla, we are coming.

Lovely interview :D Valheim is one of the few games that has managed to pull my old gaming group together again since we all got kids and lost most our gametime

I thought I couldn't love the game more than i do now. But after meting the crew I love it way more now.

What a lovely people. I wouldn't want my fav devs being any other way.

shame this wasnt released a little earlier in year would have helped some elements of teh community to understand the dev team and decisions more but nice stuff still!

Valheim is easily my favourite game of the year. The second I set foot into Valheim I had the feeling it is something special. It felt, looked and sounded really nice, and I had the time of my life hunting deer in the meadows. I still haven't beaten the third boss because I have little time but this way I always have something to come back to. Thank you, Iron Gate!

OK....here I go. High from Australia. I want to start out by congratulating the team on the making of Valheim and its well deserved success. We are doing it tough in Australia at the moment due to Covid related lockdowns and movement restrictions. This game has been a shining light in the Covid inflicted dark. I have been playing video games since they were invented (yes I am that old.....lol, 56 in October). I just want to say, Valheim is probably the closest game to perfection (for me) that I could imagine. If I had to sit down and design a game that would tick all of the boxes for me, it would most certainly turn out to be very much like Valheim. You guys got so much right in this game. The feel of the combat is perfect. Blocking is actually skill based and makes a big difference in early success. I have lost count of RU-vidrs I watch playing the game who go out flailing with their weapons and wonder why they are failing. I like watching the people that are impatient to see new areas, and get to the end of the game, get crushed by the games progression and actually they actually laugh about how stupid they were. The combat is balnced so well that you actually feel like a warrior when surrounded by a pack of Black Forest creatures and manage your defence and attack to come out on top. Everything about this game makes me want to be in the world as much as I can be. Sure, I have killed all of the bosses quite a while ago. The planning and co-ordination with my best friend (who I put onto the game) to make sure we were prepared were both challenging and epic. Our battle with Moder was absolutely brilliant. The elation I felt at the dragons defeat was delirious. On top of all of the excellent physics and structured advancement lies the true grip that the game has on me. The fact that you can build your own house/base, even village that you can call home, makes this game the only one I have ever played that makes me feel like I am returning to a second home when I load into my world. From the bottom of my heart.......thank you for this astounding game. I look forward to anything that you add to it with bated breath.

This is my favorite game! I play with my husband and 73 year old mother-in-law and have so many wonderful memories of our adventures in-game. Thank you to all the people who work to make Valheim so creative and engaging! ❤️

Taking armor off before bed. I thought I was the only one who did this!

I really love that this game doesn't have microtransactions, or an endless boring grind to progress, and is still a huge success. This game really brings me back to those good old games that kept you playing for hours, leaving tons of memories for you and your friends.

I cannot stress how amazing this game is! I only just discovered Valheim a week ago through a random RU-vid video, it was short and showed a guy fishing, farming, and building a base. I immediately decided I wanted to try it, and within the first hour I was completely hooked. There was so much to do. Such a sense of adventure and immersion. Also the challenge of the unknown, and the fact you actually had to be resourceful to survive. I loved the fact that you could do so much with your base, plant crops, build a boat and sail the ocean to explore the map; which came with it's own set of challenges. I will play this game for a long, long time to come. Thank you guys!

Love how he hasnt grasped the poppularity of the game nor the wealth he has gained by it, all he is focused on or care about is his passion project and making sure it give justice to the fans that play it. Ive spent many hours in the game, its really greate. Its still clear that its unfinnished but the diversity of what you can do in it makes it never boring. It keeps itself grounded, but also gives the player a lot of freedom other big game company simple doesnt give

I've played several other survival games over the years and Valheim is the 1st that has let me pick my own pace. Right now I've got 1070 game days and I haven't killed The Elder yet. Yep, I'm still Bronze Age and really haven't done much sailing except to get the feel of it. I do have about 2 dozen country homes and 6-7 herds of **boars spreading out from the world center. I got lucky with my seed as I've come across Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp and Mountain without sailing. Since I'm going as spoiler free as possible this is one of the few Valheim youtubes I've watched. The dev team has my full support.

This game is amazing. What they set out to do and accomplished is staggering.

They had not been two minutes from shore, when down on them a sea serpent bore. The Vikings called all hands and swore, They'd take that snake in tow. Huh! Soon may the Iron Gate come, to bring us Hearth And Home and rum. One day, when the mining is done, we'll take our ore and go. No line was cut, no serpent was freed, and the Vikings' mind was not on greed. But they belonged to the Iron Gate creed, They took that ship in tow. Huh! Soon may the Iron Gate come, to bring us Hearth And Home and rum. One day, when the fermenter is done, we'll take our mead and go. As far as I've heard, the fight's still on, the line's not cut, and the serpent's not gone. The Iron Gate makes it's regular call, to encourage the Viking crew and all. Soon may the Iron Gate come, to bring us Hearth And Home and rum. One day, when the update is done, we'll take our gear and go! Huh!

Amon Amarth shirt...thats the sign for a good publisher ^^

i have yet to beat the boss in the swamps alone but i still come back to this game. you could spend 10 hours in valheim and not even feel like its been 10 hours.

beautiful ppl working on a beautiful game

One of the best games i have ever played. this is interesting and I love every single one of these people without ever meeting them. I would literally hug them all for making such a brilliant game. Love it and them

I've been a gamer for over 30 years and I can honestly say: this is a great game

It’s an incredible game. Highly recommend, always something to do and the world is very charming

I prefer developers like Valheim's and Satisfactory's who decided to use Early Access instead of Hello Games which took my CA$70, then decided to change the whole game a year later without warning its user-base at all. So many games should be launched in Early Access like the one backed by the Embracer Group. Congrats to you. You are building a legacy and it has a better probability to be intergenerational because, unlike other publishers, you respect our time and our money by being transparent and saying that your games are in Early Access.

I think it's cool the devs Henrik's cloak on his character matched his curtains IRL. Really glad to hear he isn't letting the money get to him and I have great hopes for the future.

You guys are great! I saw the trailer for the game and had a feeling in my gut that said this was going to be an amazing game! Have over 200 hours of gametime and am looking forward to many more! Tack för allt ni gjort och kommer göra!

One of my most-played games now with over 1k hours playing it!

Oh yeah, I remember the first weeks of helping with spinning up dedicated server after server fighting the evil world eater bug 🤪 Heck, the server listing feature couldn't keep up with the amount of servers and people had to add their servers as Favorites to directly connect easily. That was an absolutely crazy time and I really needed a long break after that. Amazing that the team kept going until VC season and I'm happy to see this well deserved success 🙏 Edited too be clear: I'm not affiliated with Iron Gate. Just hung on the Discord for years :)

Fantastic game and I cant wait for more. Also, I think I may have fallen in love with their community manager...

They’ve inspired me to start my journey of game development.

The devs are obviously playing the long game. I really appreciate this systematic and meaningful approach. I've enjoyed more than 800 hours of content in this game already and I can't wait for further updates. Thanks for the amazing content and for being so unsusceptible to entitled babies whining on every social media possible. Thanks for the video too!

Message from me and all the other people who play it and love it. Keep doing what you are doing... we will wait.

It's crazy how smaller teams make better games, great game, love playing with the ladz 10/10 would recommend to a friend

"Hit tree with axe; Tree hit me back. 10/10" LOL

Really lovely insight. Have enjoyed since the first week of release and find myself returning over and over. Looking forward to Hearth and Home!

I'm so grateful for this game. It introduced me to my first gaming friends who I still play with. I was 32. So it was a big deal for me playing games alone for the longest time. Thanks for that.

You guys have nailed this game. Best game I've played for decades!

"i hit a tree. tree hit me back. 10/10" made me start tearing up

It's my first time seeing the devs of my current favourite game. I feel blessed to see and listen to these people talk even. Valheim is a journey, and it's just starting, I couldn't agree more on that idea. Thank you IronGate! ❤

Wonderful job! I am a developer myself and I understand how much work was invested in this! The main thing is not to stop and bring this project to the end. Otherwise, an unpleasant aftertaste will remain for life.

Valheim went straight to the top of my most played games on steam, very quickly, this team is so amazing and i want to thank them for creating such an amazing, fun, and addicting game!!!

Ive just started, don't get to play with others but the game is still great even single player, which is a HUGE bonus with this type of game and a massive reason this game will stay on my list

Iron Gate be like: Regular Swedish Dude Pretty Swedish Girl Keyboardist from My Chemical Romance For real though can't wait for Hearth & Home! Thanks for a great game guys :)

I love Valheim, there is so much you can do and create, its amazing. Beautiful sceneries everywhere you go.

Valheim just fits me perfectly. First got it when Bellular talked about it. And never regretted buying it. Great game!

I am very satisfied with this game and the vision the developers have

I really really really want to see this game grow into a massive melting pot of experimentation and exploration. Keep it up ya'll, there's so much more you can do. I'm having a great time. Fare the well. 🙌

Really excited to see how you move forward with the game. Best early access game I’ve ever played. Getting close to 500 hours played and with Hearth and Home out now, me and my friends have started a new adventure that will take me over 1000. Loving all the new stuff. Thanks for the awesome experience.

Valheim truly is a unique experience, i love it and i will wait patiently for updates

A very nice team, made a very good game. I could play it forever.

i think also the timing was perfect. covid helped with sales since people was looking for a game to chill, SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS. amazing timing. probably one of the best timing in gaming history

Definitely my new favourite game developers.

Good vid and nice to see who actu&lly is behind Valheim. I really like to see particularly this type of people get recognition for what they do. Highly creative people making the bridge towards a big crowd. Too often these people are not picked up because they actually are not really busy with being famous, but rather create, create, create. I see that happen in the music industry too. I like Valheim because you spend time with people you would otherwise not meet that counts for other games as well but somehow Valheim has a higher social MP value somehow? It invites to be gentle, slow paced and just.... relaxing. The music helps too there.

is it ok for me to translate this interview into Chinese for more people to appreciate this group of amazing people? I will give credit to this channel of course

Valheim is arguably one of the best games I have played. My friends and I play it all the time.

Hes so finland, reminds me to Kimi Raikkonen. Great interview!

wow....blows my mind on how a game is released. i never knew thats what it takes. thats awesome

My Favorite game of this year... Hard, surprising, satisfying and rewarding.

Please add a pause function to the single player !

Love iron gate studios! I recently made a video of the dangers of trees in valheim haha...they're the alpha predator in valheim!

Lisa if you read this. plz we need more different map markers. thank you kind.

amazing game.. i spend more time in valheim than i do real life ... lol..mm... just beautiful. and thankyou. :)

A very successful game, I really hope they got their money's worth.

This one of my favorite games of all time.

I can leave a few comments though that might give you more ideas for Valheim. More enemies. We need more metal. Resources. I feal like the tree that is over head needs to have a purpose. Mabye a final boss. Game might need more natural disasters. Like Tornadoes, mabye a volcano for another biom. I hope this helps if you guys are stuck on what to do next.

I love this game and it's great to know the people that made it love it so much too XD

strangely my village in "Conan Exiles" is called "Valheim" way before this was released and I heard about it - I guess I mixed unconsciously the names Valhalla with Muspelheim

I had read that the game had died. I had a lot of fun with it

Valheim became my favorite game in no time.

9 Biomes in the Future! Great!! I'm gonna play more in this game.. Salute to you guys! Your game rocks!

What a surprise how good this game was for me!

The guy wearing an Amon Amarth shirt to an interview about his viking-afterlife game is perfect

there oughta be a sixth clone of lisa that i can devote my attention to... *ahem* i hope you all stay safe and sound and will be able to celebrate properly soon!

5:55 OMG just looking his position, my back died!

iVE GIFTED 7 COPIES OF THIS GAME SO FAR, AND i CANNOT WAIT FOR MORE

God, I hope the sales they made would be enough to sustain them for years to come.

Keep going guys! . I'll be doing more cool stuff with your hearth and home update

We definitely needed to see this months ago, around the time the roadmap changed -- they seem like great folks!

you did an awesome game, thank you very much!💜

now we know why there are sideparted haircuts in a medieval viking game

Oh snap, Seb is wearing an Amon Amarth shirt lol. Still worried for this game tho, 500k peak players in march down to 18k online last night....

i love those guys. Hope to see a lot moe rich ppl like them. Good job guys love the game. Keep up with the good work

Amazing team! I've started playing last week and im in love with valheim. I did put minecraft to the side for valheim because i was looking for something for a few years, and now i found it. Minecraft is great for sure, but for me it was time to leave:)

So humble.

Great game. I hope they fix the textures to take it to the next level.

I watched Valhalla Rising last week. Its a great movie! (Just thought I mention it!)

And now I like the game more.

Valheim is Love,Valheim is Life !

I love the game! I tried to replicate Gobber's forge from How to Train Your Dragon and got myself a headache making a nice fireplace but it was worth it!

I just started playing. Dark Souls. Favourite game I’ve ever played. Valheim is better than Elden Ring though. I say this as a compliment. They took a simple idea and really developed it. Really flushed it out thoroughly. Everything works. Everything flows. I love play SCUM. But when developers make a zombie game that’s good but it has bugs. Then you implement more and more game mechanics like fishing and planes. That’s all great. But if zombies clip through the walls. Your game is trash. Can’t play it anymore. Sorry. Valheim is beautiful. And simple. And really well thought out. I’m sad I’ll never get to share this game with my friend. He would have loved it.

Love the game, and I love the vibes. I just really wish updates didn't take so long. It's been over a year and the last boss still has a placeholder item and I don't have much to do in game ):

Wait. How do you get that hood and cloak at 10:53?

What did they think about their parent company taking most the profits from the sales of Valheim and opening several new development studios rather than invest in theirs?

really hope they add more bosses soon, tough ones..

I love this game...I hope they don't get cocky and screw it up. 5 mill x 20 XD...I hope they never feel guilty or undeserving...This is a fantastic game.

Protecc Lisa at all cost

No time to watch this, I'm playing Valheim!!!

Henrick should be the last misunderstood boss

Лучшая игра в которую я когда-либо играл

what does finished product look like? how far out?