UPDATE September 2026: Even better after the recent major update (1.0 official)ORIGINAL REVIEWLove Valheim since it came to the Mac. Playing on an M3 Max MacBook Pro at 1440p with max visuals. The Iron Gate/Coffee Stain team has done an amazing job creating a true exploration, crafting, & survival world full of lore and true progression. Absolutely bargain price for the amount of hours of enjoyable gameplay. And the trees! I just love chopping the trees…trying to get them to fall like dominoes…and replanting. Last but not least at all….the developer made it SUPER easy to connect with friends either natively in game with join codes or even built in a Mac Dedicated Server. Inside the Mac App Store app package is a PDF with instructions and we set that up on a spare M1 Mini. THANK YOU!!!

Absolutely wonderful game! I am an Architect and am hooked with the building system. I love that I can put the opponents in to passive mode so I can concentrate on my designs. I save the battles for when I am frustrated with a project at the day job office. When I get home, it’s Valheim bashing time on those days. Valheim therapy. LOL However, it’s sad that it is so difficult to run the mods on the MacOS. I wish that could be changed soon. I’d pay another $20 just to get that functionality without running and dealing with an emulator.

I have 500 hrs in Valheim on my PC but recently converted that computer into a compute resource, so i tried Valheim on my mac and the devs have absolutely nailed the experience.Performance has been fantastic at maximum settings (using an M2 Max) and the sound is noticably better through a pair of AirPod Max. There are a few bugs but still on par with any other PC game I've played in the last 5 years so I'm not taking off a star.As a long time PC gamer, this has completely changed my mind about Mac gaming, it can be SO GOOD.

I understand that the makers are never going to change the graphics and im chill with that. Overall its an amazing game (although its better on steam) and its even funner with friends, if u wanna play with friend u r gonna need a 3rd party app to voice chat. This game is incredible for how much I paid for it. I have 200ish hours on it and im still finding new things on the map. It’s a really chill game to if u want it to be, even the tutorial area is really fun. Awesome job guys, I wish all adventure games where this good.