Are you worthy of entering Valhalla? You have been sent to Valheim, the 10th Norse world. Only by defeating the mighty beasts of these lands will you win the favor of the gods. This quest will take you to the far reaches of this world, from the deepest forest to the highest mountain peak.

Valheim is an open-world exploration survival game set in a vast procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by norse mythology and viking culture. Players are tasked with taking back the realm from the ancient enemies of Odin, building mead halls and castles, crafting weapons and armour, and sailing the seas in search of new horizons and win the favor of the gods.

Valheim is a game about exploring a huge fantasy world inspired by norse mythology and viking culture. You start your adventure at the relatively peaceful center of Valheim. The further from the center you travel, the more challenging the world becomes. But you will also find more valuable materials that you can use to craft deadlier weapons and sturdier armor. You will also build your own viking strongholds and outposts all over the world. Eventually you will build a mighty longship and sail the great oceans in search of exotic lands … but be wary of sailing too far...

Valheim is a huge procedurally-generated world, inviting players to explore lush forests, snow-topped mountain ranges and mystical meadows, all presented in striking Lo-Fi graphics. Valheim offers a dodge & block based combat system with a wide range of weapons for deathless vikings to battle primordial bosses of myth and legend. The viking adventure is playable solo, or with up to nine friends as no one wants to repeatedly face death alone. Between deaths, Valheim offers a flexible house and base building system, intuitive item crafting and ship building, and dedicated servers.

To celebrate the full release of Valheim’s latest Hildir’s Request update, Coffee Stain and Iron Gate Studio’s brutal viking survival game is launching its first speedrunning competition, the Trial of Týr.

Welcome to Trial of Tyr, Valheim’s Hard Mode Contest!

Vikings, the time has come to prove your worth to the gods once and for all. You’ve slain the mighty Eikthyr, you’ve bested the horrors that hide in the Swamps and you’ve taken Yagluth’s power as your own, but the Allfather has more in store for you.

There can be only one champion, one viking that is stronger, braver and faster than everyone else. Welcome to the Trial of Tyr, a competition that will pit the best among you against each other in a race against time!

To celebrate the upcoming Hildir’s Request update that will introduce difficulty levels to Valheim, we are announcing a hard mode solo deathless contest, challenging Vikings around the world to enter Valheim and defeat all bosses on hard mode solo, without dying and as fast as possible. The winner of this contest will dine in the halls of Valhalla with a custom-made engraved viking tankard that will bear the winner’s name and completion time.

As with every contest, there are rules you will have to follow in order to participate, and have your run be considered for first place. These are as follows:

The hard mode solo run must be:

• Done by a single player without dying, external help or the use of any dev commands
• Streamed on Twitch or YouTube or fully recorded without splits in footage as proof
• Played with the “Hard” preset in the world modifier settings
• Played on the official Trial of Tyr world seed: MX7L9GYcf2

The run is considered finished when the player has defeated the final Mistlands boss The Queen and mounted her head at the Ancient Stone Circle. The winner of the competition is the player with the fastest completion time — players can submit multiple runs if they manage to beat their previous times.

In order to be considered, please send the full Twitch stream, clip or recorded footage to @Valheimgame on Twitter with the hashtag #Trialoftyr, and upload in this form. The competition will run between August 22nd and September 5th, and you can submit your solo deathless run until 23:59 CEST.

Valheim is now available through Steam Early Access for $19.99.

Key features:

• Huge procedural world - explore and inhabit mystical lands, from imposing forests to vast snow topped mountain ranges and stunning meadows, complete with their own creatures of legend and wildlife to hunt and battle
• Flexible house and base building system - raise mead halls, farms, settlements outposts, castles and more.
• Intuitive item crafting - forge weapons and armour and craft food and mead worthy of skaldic verse
• Dodge & block based combat system with a wide range of weapons
• Build & sail ships - from Knarrs to imposing warships, build legendary vessels to traverse the seas and discover new lands
• Multiplayer (with focus on cooperation) - Valheim supports independent, player-hosted servers and unlimited world creation.
• Defeat bosses & collect trophies to progress and craft new powerful items

Valheim is in development for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam), including Xbox/PC Game Pass.