Stardew Valley

Having played Harvest Moon and some Rune Factory, both being farming type games, there's really a lot of similarities. Unfortunately these include the sun that moves at apocalyptic speeds, which is a shame because Stardew Valley has an amazingly calm vibe that makes it fun to turn auto-run off and walk slowly along the map, maybe go fishing, or get engrossed in the mines, wandering about and slaying enemies that don't like you doing that (btw, combat is barebones - not something to buy the game for) - all good things I love doing when I just want to relax my nerves. Given that by default 10 minutes pass in-game every 7 real life seconds, there's very little time to enjoy any of these without worrying about getting in bed by in-game 2AM! So I use these mods: SMAPI (of course) by Pathoschild, Timespeed by cantorsdust and Save Anywhere by Alpha_Omegasis (because after installing Timespeed and configuring it I ran into the problem of not being able to save when I want to quit without skipping to the next day). After editing the config file of the respective mods, it becomes the game I'm talking about right now. There's still the main quests, like meeting the Wizard, but those can just be delayed forever as long I avoid his house, which is good. The way I'm playing the game leaves a lot of opportunities to eventually get bored, which tells me I've taken enough of the game inside me to relax, recover and get back to doing whatever I wasn't. Kinda what a game is supposed to be, sometimes. It's not always good to have incentives to play too much. To close this one, I'm not sure if anyone on video sharing sites plays it the same way as I describe here. so it's probably not helping your buying decision. Best you can do is take a normal gameplay vid, then think about doing all of the things in a much slower way. but that still might not help...

Harvest Moon kennt wohl so gut wie jeder Spieler. Stardew Valley ist viel mehr als das und macht sehr viel Spaß über einen langen Zeitraum. Zu Beginn des Spiels gibt es natürlich noch nicht die große Masse an Optionen, weshalb die ersten Credits recht mühsam verdient werden müssen. Je länger das Spiel andauert, desto mehr Möglichkeiten ergeben sich aber und man weiß irgendwann gar nicht mehr, was man zuerst erledigen soll. Die Pixelgrafik mag nicht für jeden etwas sein, aber sie ist in sich stimmig und weiß zu gefallen. Genau der richtige Titel für verregnete Wochenenden oder graue Wintertage an denen man sich daheim verkriecht. Kaufen!

I´ve spent already 80 hours through 15 days. The game unfolds slowly but steadily, and it provides a super relaxing, but never boring, experience. Bought it at sale, but if I knew how much I was going to love the game, I would have paid the whole price without a doubt.

I mean who hasn't heard of Stardew Valley. It's a rags to riches story for an amazing Dev who just keeps on giving content even 8 years after release, amazing modding community. You just can't go wrong. Mr Barone we need more devs like you! Kudos!

10/10 I love this game. I loved it before 1.6 but the new updates are incredible. Really added a new level of grind to the whole story. I'm so appreciative of the time and effort put into creating and improving this game