After celebrating its fifth anniversary earlier this month, the tough-as-nails survival Viking game Valheim coming to Switch 2 this year. Originally launched as a Steam Early Access game in 2021, Valheim It allows you to cooperate with up to nine other players online as you explore a procedurally generated open world inspired by Norse mythology.

Whether playing alone or with your Viking friends, survival depends on crafting the right gear, building shelters and prevailing in punishing combat encounters. The ultimate goal of the game is to kill the various gods that are scattered around the different biomes of the game that are considered worthy of entering Valhalla. But you can ignore the bosses if you want to focus on collecting recipes and cooking feasts for your fellow bearded adventurers.

If I’m brutally honest, the Switch 2 version of Valheim not seen much in a look at the announcement trailer, but it is still technically an early access game at the time of writing, and you get support for mouse control and HD Rumble 2 on Nintendo’s console.

After debuting on PC, Valheim later made the jump to Xbox and will also launch on PS5 later this year. There’s currently no release date for that or the newly announced Switch 2 port, but they could arrive at the same time to coincide with the game hitting 1.0.

Valheim announced during the current third-party-focused Nintendo Directwhere a bunch of Bethesda games too confirmed for Switch 2 in 2026.