Stardew Valley News

AGDQ 2022 includes Stardew Valley in 20 minutes and blindfolded Sekiro

Games Done Quick, the twice-annual charity speedrunning event, will once again be bringing us a dose of speedily-beaten games this coming January. Event organisers have revealed the full game list for AGDQ 2022, and from Actraiser to Zadette there are a load of fun runs on the schedule, and fans of everything from farming games to bomb defusal simulations will find something satisfying.

Some of the big PC games on the list include Sekrio: Shadows Die Twice, which will be completed blindfolded in a two hour, forty-five minute estimate by Mitchriz. We're also getting a full Stardew Valley community center restoration - one accomplished through glitches - in 20 minutes, courtesy of runner Olenoname.

Deathloop, which you may know as our first 10/10 game in two years, will be completed in under 25 minutes, and we're getting an all boss race through Dark Souls between Danflesh and Ecdycis. For something completely different, Procyon will be taking on Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes' giant Centurion bomb in just over an hour.

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Stardew Valley modders are already bringing Haunted Chocolatier to life

It's likely to be a long time before we get to play Haunted Chocolatier, the next game from Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone. But it's almost Halloween, and it's tough to imagine a better way to spend the holiday than surrounded by pleasant ghosts encouraging you to create delicious chocolate. Luckily, Stardew Valley modders have it covered.

The Haunted Chocolatier mod by Edu Anttunes is available on Nexus Mods, and it will bring a bit of cocoa flavour to your farm. It introduces cocoa trees, and four new recipes: cooking chocolate, chocolate bars, white chocolate bars, and simple truffles. It also replaces a few bits of furniture so you can decorate your abode with ghosts and chocolate cauldrons.

Not quite the full Haunted Chocolatier experience, but certainly a cute way to change up your Stardew Valley decor. The real Haunted Chocolatier will have you gathering ingredients in a fantasy world, using them to make fancy types of chocolate, and then selling the results at your chocolate shop - though the game's still early enough in development that the details might change.

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Haunted Chocolatier is the next game from the creator of Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has announced his next game. Haunted Chocolatier is in development, but don't expect to be playing it any time soon. The debut teaser trailer looks like it will scratch a whole lot of Stardew Valley itches, but instead of farming, you'll be gathering ingredients to make chocolate. Maybe even haunted ghost chocolate.

It looks very much like Stardew Valley, but it appears to have a much greater focus on Zelda-style combat and overworld exploration. We see the lead character exploring a fantasy world through a mysterious portal, then apparently returning to a haunted castle to interact with characters and, er, make chocolate.

Haunted Chocolatier is "evolving organically as I develop it, so I'm not sure where it will go," Barone explains in a blog post. "But at its core, the gameplay loop involves gathering ingredients, making chocolate, and running a chocolate shop. Of course, there's a lot more to the game than that, but I don't want to get too deep into at this early stage, partly because I don't want to be tied down to any particular concept of what the game is."

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Stardew Valley creator's next game is an adorable chocolate shop sim

In a surprise reveal today, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone announced his next game Haunted Chocolatier, a shop sim about running a spooky chocolate shop and living in a haunted castle. We've been waiting for years to hear what Barone would work on next after spending so much time developing major free updates to his farm life simulation. The big announcement has now been shared and I can't wait to hear more about what he has planned for an equally adorable new game...
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A Stardew Valley player is recreating recipes on TikTok

Food is one of the more important parts of Stardew Valley. Managing your energy levels in the chill farming simulator is central to the game's appeal of growing in harmony with your limits, and taking the time to cook a hearty meal pays off with more stamina than munching down a slab of corn. But what if you actually tried to cook Stardew Valley's meals in real life? It's more complicated than you might think.

TikTok user The Queen of Sauce, or Ali, has already created 30 of Stardew Valley's food offerings, with another 50 to go. Speaking to GamesRadar, though, she reveals that the most challenging part so far isn't the sheer amount of recipes there are, but that some ingredients just don't exist, while others don't go together.

Ali reveals that the Strange Buns have been the most challenging dish for her to recreate for those reasons. You've got to make them with periwinkle and void mayonnaise, and the latter doesn't really exist. The TikToker also has plans to re-imagine the recipe in time for Halloween to give it a much sweeter taste.

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