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Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley

ConcernedApe
33.7M owners
98% positive
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33.7M

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88K

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98.49% Overwhelmingly Positive

Total Reviews

766K

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8 Best Indie Games That Merge Genres, Ranked

GameRant 2 days ago

...r. It needs to be seen to be believed. 3 Stardew Valley A Perfect Marriage Of Life-Sim, Farming Sim, And Visual...

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Portal 2 Is No Longer the Highest Rated Game on Steam

GameRant 2 days ago

...highest-rated game on Steam for a long time, but it's been bumped into second place by indie title Stardew Valley . This means that Stardew Valley has surpassed Portal 2 and every other game in player ratings...

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The Next Animal Crossing Game Should 'Steal' Palia's Best Feature

GameRant 2 days ago

...g cozy games . Palia’s Social Butterflies Palia has drawn comparisons to Stardew Valley and other similar titles due to its slice-of-life gameplay. However, Palia stands on its own two...

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Not quite girl, not quite horse: The latest gacha craze sweeping Steam is a bizarre idol management game for anime highschool horse girls

PC Gamer 2 days ago

...so much that I spoke to gaming's resident horse expert—turns out they've been holding out for their Stardew Valley moment for years, and I'm on their side Promise Mascot Agency review: Absurdist m...

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July 2025 is the Month of the Cozy Game

GameRant 4 days ago

...f the Rings Game will finally arrive after months of delays. Cozy games are having a moment. Stardew Valley recently topped Steam's Best Game of All Time list, while other cozy games by indie developers suc...

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Stardew Valley Creator Shares New Comments on Canceled Minecraft-Inspired Game Hytale

GameRant 4 days ago

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone (aka ConcernedApe) has clarified his comments regarding his potential involvem...

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone receives the highest honor possible: Big ConcernedApe, a gigantic in-game portrait one fan made with 20 hours of painstakingly arranged items

GamesRadar 5 days ago

Ancient Fruit. Sweet Gem Berries. Starfruit. You can fill your fields with countless riches in Stardew Valley , but for one dedicated player, nature's bounty simply wasn't enough. They rejected those crops. Th...

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Hytale studio founder says he'll reach out to Riot in an effort to buy back and revive the game

Rock Paper Shotgun 6 days ago

...each out to Riot Games in an effort to buy back the game and release a version of it. Meanwhile, Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has seemingly responded to a fan asking him if he'd be open to...

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The Best Love Stories You Never Saw In RPGs

TheGamer 6 days ago

...6 Haley Stardew Valley...

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OG Hytale founder confirms he "will reach out" to Riot Games about buying back the Minecraft rival: "The chances of revival are next to impossible… It's the least I can do"

GamesRadar 1 week ago

...ne. I will share as much as possible as I go through the process." You may like Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe reportedly says he could "possibly" step in to save cancelled Minecraft-like Hytale,...

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New Book Takes Inspiration from Stardew Valley

GameRant 1 week ago

A newly-released novel is shouting not only Stardew Valley but the game's solo developer, ConcernedApe, as a source of major inspiration for the book. The fa...

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The Best 8 Games To Be Queer In

TheGamer 1 week ago

...o be rich first. 3 Stardew Valley The New Life You've Been Looking For...

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Stardew Valley's Impressive Steam Milestone is Just the Latest in a Long Line

GameRant 1 week ago

Stardew Valley continues to rewrite the rules of indie game success, recently achieving its most prestigious mile...

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Here are Steam Summer Sale 2025 deals under $10 that you should check out

Destructoid 1 week ago

...me Rainbow Six Siege PvE action, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction is available for $9.99. Stardew Valley has added plenty of new content since its launch, and you can enjoy it all at $7.49. If you d...

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This Stardew Valley-ish farming sim looks super cozy until you find out about the supernatural serial killer (who you can also romance)

GamesRadar 3 weeks ago

...it's all down to the game's irresistible set up. It's essentially a farm-n-life sim in the vein of Stardew Valley that looks super wholesome and cozy, except for the fact that there's a supernatural serial killer...

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Wildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025

GamesRadar 1 month ago

...ed Chocolatier (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Emma-Jane Betts Managing Editor, Evergreens Like every Stardew Valley fan, at this point I'm feral for any news regarding Eric Barone's upcoming game Haunted Chocolati...

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The best indie games of all time

Destructoid 1 month ago

...immersive point-and-click puzzle adventure that’ll test your deductive skills and compassion. Stardew Valley Image by ConcernedApe The tranquillity of life on a farm feels like a peaceful retirement...

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It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes

GamesRadar 1 month ago

...f its spooky, paranormal setting and story. Although we know it's a fully new game independent from Stardew Valley, on the surface it looks like it could be a Halloween-themed Stardew DLC with the same mechanics an...

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Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms

GamesRadar 1 month ago

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has repeatedly said he doesn't intend on ever fully closing the book on his bel...

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"I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original

GamesRadar 1 month ago

I know there are plenty of hardworking Stardew Valley farmers – their bones aching, their knees buckling – who are sick of waiting for creator Eric Baron...

Game Information

Release Date 26/02/2016
First Tracked 17/12/2015

About

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Tags

RPG
Indie
Casual
Simulation
Building
Relaxing
Open World
Crafting
Great Soundtrack
Sandbox
Multiplayer
2D
Pixel Graphics
Singleplayer
Cute
Dating Sim
Life Sim
Fishing
Agriculture
Farming Sim

Platform Support

Windows
macOS
Linux