Valheim Standard Edition

Valheim is a Norse survival game about a dead Viking who did not quite make it to Valhalla. Odin drops you into the tenth world to clear out what is left of the old powers, and the whole thing is procedurally generated, so nobody else's map is your map.

The world is divided into biomes of escalating danger — meadows, black forest, swamp, mountain, plains, mistlands and the Deep North — each gated behind a boss and a material tier. Progression is honest about being a checklist and still works: better metal, better gear, further inland. Building uses a structural integrity system where a hall that is not properly supported will come down, and the longships are real vessels that handle wind and cargo weight. Farming, cooking, hunting and sailing fill the space between boss fights. Up to ten players can share a world.

There is one edition, and it is the full game including the Deep North biome. The Xbox code is a single key covering Xbox consoles and Windows. The PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 versions are not sold as codes yet.