Valheim's All-Boss Speedrun Is Already Under 90 Minutes

Valheim landed in early access with more force than almost any other release of 2021, racking up 3 million sales inside its first 16 days. With that kind of player base settling in, a fresh sub-community is already taking shape: speedrunners.

The Rise of Valheim Speedrunning

Speedrunning crowds tend to circle every new release and probe it for skip routes, glitch chains, and clever routing. Most games end up surprising people, and survival titles often have more skip potential than they look like at a glance.

At first glance Valheim seems like an odd fit. It is a survival game with crafting tiers, biome gating, and bosses that punish hasty fights. But the things that look like obstacles are exactly what makes the run interesting: every minute saved on prep work compounds across the rest of the route.

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All Five Bosses, Under 90 Minutes

The current standout is a full all-bosses run by NickRawcliffe that wraps everything up in under 90 minutes. Five bosses, one map, one timer.

The category does carry a few rules. The runner starts with a small bundle of resources and tools, and skills are soft-capped at level 100 to keep the run consistent. Even with those concessions it is an impressive performance, especially for anyone who has spent a normal playthrough still grinding their way toward the third boss.

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Plenty of Headroom

Valheim is still early in early access, which means the optimal route is going to shift with every patch. New biomes, enemies, tools, or skill lines will reshape the path and open fresh categories.

Survival neighbors like Minecraft have already proven how big a speedrun scene can get when the underlying game has enough depth to reward routing experiments. Valheim has the same raw ingredients: procedural worlds, layered progression, and a vocal community ready to push every limit. The next world record is probably already being practiced on someone's seed right now.

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