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? It won't be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to...
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? It won't be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. The community center, once the town's most vibrant hub of activity, now lies in shambles. But the valley seems full of opportunity. With a little dedication, you might just be the one to restore Stardew Valley to greatness!
Features
Turn your overgrown field into a lively farm! Raise animals, grow crops, start an orchard, craft useful machines, and more! You'll have plenty of space to create the farm of your dreams.
4 Player Farming! Invite 1-3 players to join you in the valley online! Players can work together to build a thriving farm, share resources, and improve the local community. As more hands are better than one, players have the option to scale profit margin on produce sold for a more challenging experience.
Improve your skills over time. As you make your way from a struggling greenhorn to a master farmer, you'll level up in 5 different areas: farming, mining, combat, fishing, and foraging. As you progress, you'll learn new cooking and crafting recipes, unlock new areas to explore, and customize your skills by choosing from a variety of professions.
Become part of the local community. With over 30 unique characters living in Stardew Valley, you won't have a problem finding new friends! Each person has their own daily schedule, birthday, unique mini-cutscenes, and new things to say throughout the week and year. As you make friends with them, they will open up to you, ask you for help with their personal troubles, or tell you their secrets! Take part in seasonal festivals such as the luau, haunted maze, and feast of the winter star.
Explore a vast, mysterious cave. As you travel deeper underground, you'll encounter new and dangerous monsters, powerful weapons, new environments, valuable gemstones, raw materials for crafting and upgrading tools, and mysteries to be uncovered.
Breathe new life into the valley. Since JojaMart opened, the old way of life in Stardew Valley has changed. Much of the town's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. Help restore Stardew Valley to it's former glory by repairing the old community center, or take the alternate route and join forces with Joja Corporation.
Court and marry a partner to share your life on the farm with. There are 12 available bachelors and bachelorettes to woo, each with unique character progression cutscenes. Once married, your partner will live on the farm with you. Who knows, maybe you'll have kids and start a family?
Spend a relaxing afternoon at one of the local fishing spots. The waters are teeming with seasonal varieties of delicious fish. Craft bait, bobbers, and crab pots to help you in your journey toward catching every fish and becoming a local legend!
Donate artifacts and minerals to the local museum.
Cook delicious meals and craft useful items to help you out. With over 100 cooking and crafting recipes, you'll have a wide variety of items to create. Some dishes you cook will even give you temporary boosts to skills, running speed, or combat prowess. Craft useful objects like scarecrows, oil makers, furnaces, or even the rare and expensive crystalarium.
Customize the appearance of your character and house. With hundreds of decorative items to choose from, you'll have no trouble creating the home of your dreams!
Xbox controller support (with rumble)! (Keyboard still required for text input)
Multiplayer Notice: Multiplayer is available online via GOG GALAXY, as well as via LAN and Direct IP. All multiplayer connection methods are cross-compatible with the Steam version of the game.
Local Co-Op: To play split-screen mode, you'll need cabins on your farm to house the other players (Robin can build them, or If you're starting a new game, you can choose to start with cabins already placed on the farm via the advanced game options menu). Once the cabins are there, open your game menu, scroll down to multiplayer, and select "Start local co-op" . The other player can now press start on a controller to initiate split-screen.
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Multiplayer Notice: Multiplayer is available online via GOG GALAXY, as well as via LAN and Direct IP. All multiplayer connection methods are cross-compatible with the Steam version of the game.
Local Co-Op: To play split-screen mode, you'll need cabins on your farm to house the other players (Robin can build them, or If you're starting a new game, you can choose to start with cabins already placed on the farm via the advanced game options menu). Once the cabins are there, open your game menu, scroll down to multiplayer, and select "Start local co-op" . The other player can now press start on a controller to initiate split-screen.
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3 days in and i need my fix constantly, if you haven't had a game that's made you play into the early hours of the morning recently then play this Now.
I bought this game as a present for my wife, as I felt it was right up her alley. She has spent hundreds of hours on The Sims and Animal Crossing. She also likes time management games like Cooking Mama, Diner Dash, things of that nature. She seems to be enjoying the game so far. When I asked her to describe it, she said it was a more advanced Animal Crossing. My 2 cents based off what I have been told.
If you consider buying the game because you loved the old Harvest Moon-games (for Game Boy and 64, etc.), there might be worth considering that this IS a different game. For example:
- The map is a huge so you will spend a lot of time just running around from place to place. To compensate for this I believe the days last longer than in HM, but that means you need to have a lot of time on your hands to get any progress in the game.
- There is a LOT of resources (especially minerals) that you need to improve your farming (new buildings, getting animals, upgrade tools, etc.)
- To get minerals you need to work in the local mine, located far away from your farm (resulting in a lot of time just walking around)
- In the mines you will face monsters that you need to fight (making the game also an adventure game where you fight monsters). So to get animals you essentially have to spend lots of time killing monsters.
- When you eventually got some materials, you need to process them. Some is processed at the blacksmith (also far away from home), and some is processed by stuff you craft yourself at your farm (demanding even more peculiar kinds of recourses you need to gather.
- In theory you can buy most if not all the recourses you need, but it is too expensive to be a viable solution to fully rely on if you want reasonable progress any time soon.
Also there are so many options in the stores that it can be quite overwhelming.
I will give credit for adding more farming options (honey, fruit trees, etc.), and improving fishing a lot. However I personally wished they leaved the mining and fighting only as an option, not as something one almost is required to do.
Also the esthetic side of the game is important to me. And even though the esthetics is not bad, I feel like some of the rustic, quaint charm is lost by several features.
However the game is obviously good on its own terms, and all critique I put forward is clearly a matter of taste.
I love the art and ambiance, bought the soundtrack, and have played Stardew on PC, PS4, and Switch. The gameplay has provided hundreds of hours of entertainment as I set up new farms, try different playthrough strategies, and farm without blisters and sunburn. Stardew is utterly charming.
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