Stardew Valley News

Stardew Valley players won't stop making increasingly unhinged Grandpa death mods

s is written in the farm life sim bylaws, Stardew Valley begins the way so many do: with your character inheriting a plot of land from their dear, deceased relative. In Stardew, your kind, old grandpa gets a quick farewell scene on a rather shabby-looking deathbed where he's conveying his final wishes for you to take over the family farm. Enter the modders, who years ago took pity on Grandpa and gave him a better bed. Suddenly the community is instead obsessed with giving Grandpa the most inglorious death possible...
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Stardew Valley creator isn't intimidated by the sophomore slump

Since 2016, dozens of farm and life sim games have been chasing the success of Stardew Valley—fated to be forever compared with Eric Barone's breakout indie hit. Now that he's announced his next game, the shop sim Haunted Chocolatier, Barone says he's well aware that his second game may wind up chasing after his first game just as much as all those others...
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Stardew Valley creator surprise reveals a boss theme song for his next game

Ever one for popping up to share surprise teasers after months of quietly working, Stardew Valley's creator Eric Barone has sat down on a livestream with composing software Reason Studios to talk about creating Stardew's soundtrack and wound up debuting part of a track from his upcoming shop sim game Haunted Chocolatier too...
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The best life games on PC in 2022

What are the best life games on PC? Well, it depends on what you're looking for and what kind of fantasy you envision. Daily life might be demanding and exhausting at times, but life games offer a chance to unwind and have greater control over someone else's existence.

It's more than just farming and dating - though there's plenty of that as well. The best life sims probe what it means to be alive, and maybe try transforming into a cat as well because why not. Like life itself, life games come in all forms, and while your mind might leap to games like Stardew Valley and other stalwarts when the genre comes up, there are a host of inventive takes on the formula.

We've sorted through the clones and copies to pick out some of the best life games on PC. Some reward careful management and creativity. Others ask you to be as strange as possible, but will reward you for it anyway, and some have touching stories to tell that might just reveal something about yourself in the process.

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Stardew Valley fan proposes with wholesome pop-up book

A Stardew Valley fan has proposed to his girlfriend on their fifth anniversary with a beautifully crafted pop-up book. You can file this one under epic boyfriend - or, perhaps we should now say fiancé - wins.

The now-betrothed Stardew Valley fan has shared the cute creation on the game's subreddit, making for some wholesome viewing. Of course, the cover is Stardew Valley's opening screen with a pointer hovering over the co-op button. The rest of the pages sum up their time together with a Stardew spin. You've got a save file as old as their time together, an anniversary note written in the style of a quest, and various pop-up pages that recall memories.

The wonderfully named Goop explains that putting all of this together took patience, some YouTube videos, and oodles of printer ink. "I drew out my ideas for the book with pencil first, then through a combination of assets I found online, screenshots I took from the game, and hand-drawn elements, I made the individual pages, printed, glued and bound them together," they explain.

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