V Rising continues after the steps of Valheim and exceeds Steam in several data to the survival game

Available from May 17 in early access , V Rising is already making a lot of noise. Although it is an indie game, it has managed to get to the top of the lists of successes around the world, and above all to make a place in the massive genre that is the survival. The latter was led last year by Valheim, whose atmosphere is strongly inspired by Nordic mythology.

• The recipe for success
• After the steps of Valheim

Like this video game cup that has reinvented the codes of the survival / sandbox game, v rising immerses you in a vast open world, in the skin of a vampire whose desire is to expand the empire of it.

A formula that has conquered thousands of players around the world and that has exploded the rankings in Steam!

The recipe for success

For many years, vampires always seduce and do not seem to have lost popularity, V Rising's success shows us. After its launch, its survival/sanbox game mode, as well as its epic battles, called the attention of many players and streamers from around the world, which boosted it to the top of the lists.

In Steam, V Rising has taken the front in the ranking of the best -selling games of the week from May 16 to 22, ahead of Elden Ring, The Forest , Reinorger weapon (launched the same day) or even FIFA 22 . Stunlock, responsible for the game, has recently celebrated exceeding 500,000 copies sold, confirming an explosive start for video game production, launched only in early access at the moment.

Yesterday, V Rising established a new record when registering 150,000 simultaneous players , around 9:00 p.m. Knowing that only three days ago, the record of players in the game was just over 46,000 . The amount of vampires connected simultaneously in V Rising has tripled in a very short time!

After the steps of Valheim

Not only the survival/Sanbox gameplay of the two games is quite similar, but also their success. Remember, A little over a year ago , the game inspired by the Viking culture was a phenomenal success after its launch. In just 17 days, Valheim had sold more than 3 million copies, a stellar action qualified by game developers as "the fastest and most powerful Viking invasion ever seen" _.

The maximum count of Valheim simultaneous players had been of 160,000 , two weeks after the launch. Like what, this type of survival game seems to be popular and attracts teams from players around the world. V Rising still has some way to go before overcoming the giant of the genus Valheim, But there is no doubt that production has a great future ahead!