Stardew Valley News

Huge Stardew Valley mod adds two romanceable NPCs, new festival story

Who doesn't love a good festival? If you've been hoping for some local excitement near your farm on Stardew Valley, the Red Panda Bazaar is here to provide. The sprawling new mod offers several additions to put some sparkle into your spring, or any other time of year for that matter.

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ConcernedApe isn't ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: 'Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something'

In a January 24 interview with NPR's All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone discussed his debut game's legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG...
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2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me

PC gaming has natural ebbs and flows. There are years that absolutely blow me out of the water and ones that fade into the mists shortly after they're gone. Looking purely at new releases, I was starting to feel like 2024 might be the latter. There were some real standouts, like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Tactical Breach Wizards, but compared to the stacked year that was 2023—which included Baldur's Gate 3, Jagged Alliance 3, and Against the Storm—it didn't quite match up for me...
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Stardew Valley hits over 41 million sales with millions sold during 2024

Developer Eric Barone "ConcernedApe", has updated the Stardew Valley website with some new figures showing the pixel-art farming life-sim has only continued to grow.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stardew-valley-hits-over-41-million-sales-with-millions-sold-during-2024

I want Eric Barone to make his new game, but I get why he's still fixing Stardew bugs

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone acknowledged earlier this year that his long-awaited next game, Haunted Chocolatier, started "getting dusty on the shelf" while he worked on Stardew Valley's 1.6 patch. As much as I'm looking forward to his ghosts and ganache life sim, I don't think there are many among us who'd fault Barone for continuing to tinker with the beloved farm sim that made him famous...
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