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It's time to vote! Is Valheim your Game of the Year?

You did it! Not only did you manage to nominate Valheim for a Steam Award in the Better with Friends category, but also for Game of the Year!

We're incredibly thankful for this, and now we hope we can also get your votes in the final round of the awards. Thank you so much for your support, we wouldn't be here without all of you! ❤

Resident Evil Village, Metroid Dread are the most finished games of 2021

Resident Evil Village may just be the most completed game of the year if game time tracking website HowLongToBeat is accurate. As reported by Axios (via Kotaku), the site listed off the most completed games of the year, with Village leading the list, followed closely by Metroid Dread. Rounding out the top 5 are Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, It Takes Two, and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury.

Also interesting is the most “retired” (read: abandoned) games, with Valheim topping the list, with 12 Minutes, Loop Hero, The Ascent, and Outriders making up the tightly packed rest of the top 5. Another interesting stat is the longest game, which is Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous by a mile. And of course, the raw data for most people playing a game exists as well, with Forza Horizon 5 taking that honor.

Tracking sites like this should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it’s still a fascinating look at a small sample size’s playing habits and what that says about the games they play. And it’s cool to see this kind of information outside of corporate messaging.

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Development Blog December: Happy Holidays!

Time moves fast and we’ve already reached the end of 2021. It’s been an incredible year, and we’re excited to keep on working towards making Valheim the best game it can be!

Along with our last blog here on Steam we also released a smaller content patch featuring a brand new creature, and it was so much fun to see all of your reactions to that little surprise! We really hope you’ll be just as excited about the upcoming update for the Mountains when that launches!

Speaking of that content, it’s getting more and more complete. We aim to be able to release it early next year, but until then we thought we’d give you yet another sneak peek:

As the development of the caves is gradually progressing, that means more and more energy can be focused on the Mistlands update. There’s a lot to be done in order to bring you a whole biome, as we need to establish everything from resources and new things to craft, to enemies and the big bad boss, but we’re really liking what we have so far!

In case you missed it, last week it was finally time for the Game Awards! The competition was strong and we unfortunately didn’t win anything, but it was an honor to just be nominated in the first place, and we’d like to thank every single one of you who gave us your vote!

Since it’s now December, some of you may have a little bit of downtime given the holidays of first Yuletide and then New Years. If you’re planning on playing Valheim a lot during that period, you might even have some extra incentive to do so, as there will be a little bit of a competition coming up… Keep an eye out on our socials next week to find out more! And even if you’re not inclined towards competitions, we hope you’ll have a grand time in Valheim anyway with the seasonal Yule tree and Yuleklapp building items! We were also able to finish a little holiday gift for you all in the form of an armor stand the other day, so that you can finally display the gear you’re no longer using. We hope you like it!


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Valheim gets christmassy, armour stands and silences tamed wolves

Iron Gate have given Valheim players an early Christmas present with a fresh update adding in a couple of seasonal bits and some free content.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/12/valheim-gets-christmassy-armour-stands-and-silences-tamed-wolves

Patch 0.206.5

We’ve concluded that you’ve all been on good behavior, so we have some holiday gifts for you all! This includes some seasonal decorative items, as well as a brand new armor stand that you can use to display your armor sets. To let you all get some peaceful rest, we have also taught tamed wolves to stop howling.


Fixes:
* Location music tweaks
* Abomination drop & spawn tweaks
* Localization updates
* Enabled clipping check when placing thrones

Improvements:
* Troll animations overhauled
* Tamed animals are no longer afraid of fire
* Peace and quiet (Tamed wolves no longer howl)
* Serverlist profanity filter

News:
* Building item: Armor stand (Display your gear)
* Merry Yule