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A Mere Five People Made The Most Popular Video Game On Steam Right Now
And the genre was assumed to be all but dead and oversaturated. What did they do right? How did they defy the odds where others failed?
If you told me that indie games have no chance in 2020–2021, I would laugh you right out of the room. Looking at the past year, indie games have rocked the boat and then some. From Fall Guys, to Among Us, to Rust’s resurgence in popularity, indie games are far from dead. The “Indiepocalypse” as it were is far out of the mind of PC game developers.
Iron Gate Studios, the developers of Steam’s fastest rising game this year, would have to agree. Started by Henrik Törnqvist and Richard Svensson, the Swedish game studio has been working hard on their latest release, Valheim. The Viking-inspired game has on average about 200K concurrent players, with peak players at 500K at once. About 3 million gamers have purchased the game, currently in early access. It’s an understatement to say that Valheim is doing quite well recently.
