Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak with Henrik Tornqvist, co-founder of Iron Gate Studios, developer of the co-op survival game "Valheim". Sebastian Eriksson of Coffee Stain Publishing, publisher of "Valheim," "Deep Rock Galactic," and "Satisfactory," also joined us.

In addition to telling us a bit more about Valheim's influence on single-player RPGs like Zelda and Skyrim rather than traditional survival games, and a bit more about Valheim's Early Access roadmap, we also discussed Valheim's sudden We talked about its success. However, it became a million seller and has now sold 2 million copies.

"It's very unbelievable and, I might add, very humbling.

Erickson added, "The same can be said from Coffee Stein's standpoint. 'We, too, were quite optimistic, or rather very optimistic, about the performance of the game. But this is far beyond our imagination. [We even discussed internally that if someone had told us we would sell two million units within two weeks, we would have just laughed at them and said, oh, okay, you're apparently just trolling," Erickson continued. Erickson continued. Like Henrik said, it was pretty humiliating and overwhelming."

Ericsson said that one of his favorite pastimes since the launch of Valheim has been seeing the Valheim subreddit. He said, "I really want to thank all the people who contribute everything from really impressive structures like giant castles to super funny interpretations of trolls. But there are many, many trees dead. There's even a video of it happening. It's a lot of fun."

"I want to thank everyone who bought the game. It's very... . mind-blowing. And really wonderful."

With a development team of only five people and millions of people now playing the game, we asked if Iron Gate has any plans to expand to meet the demands of such a large player base.

"We will hire some people, absolutely," Törnqvist said. 'We're starting that process now. Yes, we will need more people to handle everything." "Because we've already reached the limit of what we can do."