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Iron Gate Studio's Norse-themed survival adventure Valheim exited Early Access with its 1.0 release on September 9, 2026, a launch tracked by Pure Xbox in its daily roundup of games arriving on Xbox that day. The site described September 9 as an otherwise relatively quiet release day, with Valheim leading a slate of five Xbox titles. The 1.0 version arrived to strong critical reception, with IGN awarding the game a 10/10 and Pure Xbox noting a Metacritic score of 90. That aggregate placed Valheim in joint-fourth position among the best-reviewed games of 2026 at the time of publication. The milestone was significant because Valheim had spent years in Early Access after becoming one of the breakout survival-crafting hits of the early 2020s, and a 1.0 designation marks the point at which developers consider the game feature-complete. Its simultaneous availability on Xbox broadened the audience beyond the PC player base that sustained it through development.