Valheim is coming to Game Pass PC, Microsoft Store later this month, still no Mistlands release date

Iron Gate announced today that its popular Viking survival game, Valheim, will make the jump to Xbox Game Pass PC, and will also be available on the Microsoft Store. While the new way to access Valheim is sure to excite, there’s still the matter of the Mistlands themselves, which aren’t quite ready for release according to a new blog post.

Valheim will be coming to Xbox Game Pass PC on September 29, as well as launching as a standalone game for purchase from Microsoft’s Windows Store. The survival title Viking has been on Steam since launch and will be coming to Xbox consoles themselves later in Q2 2023.

This marks a new way for players to jump into the Vikings afterlife, especially those who might not have wanted to pay for early access, but are willing to try it out as part of the game. of their existing Game Pass sub.

Did you watch the @Xbox Showcase just now? So you know #Valheim should arrive in the Microsoft store and @XboxGamePassPC September 29! Make sure your axes are sharp by then! ? pic.twitter.com/SUv7yiDTiU

— Valheim (@Valheimgame) September 14, 2022

Valheimhowever, still waiting to be updated with the next Mistlands content drop, which Iron Gate States yesterday is still being worked on, although no official date for its release has been given. The survival game launched last year in February 2021 and since then it has slowly seen a stream of bug fixes, fixes and more. Last years Hearth and house The update added a host of changes, including those to combat and stamina, but players have been waiting for the next Mistlands biome ever since we first landed there and found it to be empty.

A new post on the Steam feed indicates that progress is being made, but Iron Gate is currently waiting to give an official release date for the Mistlands update. This is due to some changes the team is making to the update since they tested it, finding that the actual dungeons they put in the Mistlands weren’t as rewarding as they expected. had hoped.

“You could have Lily that we came to the conclusion that some of the Mistlands progression steps weren’t quite in the right order. We put a lot of work into creating nice (and spooky) dungeons for the biome, but realized they didn’t serve progression as much, or feel as rewarding, as we’d hoped. So, after some discussion, we added a special extraction element used for processing and a new kernel; the black core. We’d love to hear your guesses about their use!”

In the meantime, Iron Gate is looking for new hairstyles to add to Valheim, and ask for feedback from the community. The latest patch also fixes a few bugs and adds an experimental patch to the survival game that kicks off the cross-play testing processalthough not much actual information is given on how it will actually work.

You can read the full update on the Steam Blog.