Stardew Valley

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 1599 Ratings

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  1. oneplayer
    Sep 7, 2017
    7
    2D farming sim that takes its inspiration from Harvest Moon. But improves on the formula and adds many new mechanics. There is such a huge selection of crops and things to do that you never feel like you have enough daylight. The dungeon combat is very shallow and fishing is a PITA at the start. There is just so much you can do but not a lot that you have to do. The missions are generic.2D farming sim that takes its inspiration from Harvest Moon. But improves on the formula and adds many new mechanics. There is such a huge selection of crops and things to do that you never feel like you have enough daylight. The dungeon combat is very shallow and fishing is a PITA at the start. There is just so much you can do but not a lot that you have to do. The missions are generic. Better missions would make this game a lot better.… Expand
  2. gracjanski
    Feb 15, 2018
    7
    This game has so much love and wisdom. The critics of a modern life are so true. The atmosphere is all about the beauty of a landlife in a village with being committed to other villagers and nature instead of a unnatural live in a city as an employer for a corporation.
    So, yes this game is about more than just farming simulation. In addition you can fish, explore dungeons, build up your    This game has so much love and wisdom. The critics of a modern life are so true. The atmosphere is all about the beauty of a landlife in a village with being committed to other villagers and nature instead of a unnatural live in a city as an employer for a corporation.
    So, yes this game is about more than just farming simulation. In addition you can fish, explore dungeons, build up your farm, help to build up the village, making friends and even marry. Later on you start to think, what you will do in the day, because there is so much to do and the day time is restricted. Anyway, after few weeks the game becomes repetitive and you feel the need to grind. Another weakness is the bad overview of all the items. There are so many and you need to search, where you need an item you have found. It is not only that you need to look ingame, but also in wiki, to know what to do with it -> Fun killer. This all should be ingame and easier to manage.
    Graphics looks really too old and simple. The good thing is, it is looking sweet and fits to the whole atmosphere of the game: not modern graphic. Anyway it could be better.    … Expand
  3. Crowborn
    May 8, 2016
    7
    A very fun game that expands on Harvest Moon's classic concept. Gets a bit slow and repetitive at times, and the combat can be messy and unresponsive. Still, recommended. Devs keep adding more and more content.
  4. ScienceAdvisor
    Jan 21, 2018
    5
    This is an excercise in reuse of coding, with RNG as the main gameplay mechanic to fill in some (very limited) sense of unexpectedness. Most of the artifical game mechanics are hidden, forcing you to be yet another wiki-warrior, wading through countless pages of information that shows how little logic or balancing is in Stardew Valley. When you realize the lone developer designed this toThis is an excercise in reuse of coding, with RNG as the main gameplay mechanic to fill in some (very limited) sense of unexpectedness. Most of the artifical game mechanics are hidden, forcing you to be yet another wiki-warrior, wading through countless pages of information that shows how little logic or balancing is in Stardew Valley. When you realize the lone developer designed this to allow you to easily maximize profits if you already know what you are doing, most of the crops can be skipped as they are only useful for in-game achievements which have not actual gameplay value except as the freemium gold star which is what this should be most famous for. Basically, Stardew Valley is a freemium-like game that pats you on the head repeatedly for doing very little, which seems to be exactly what many people apprectiate (or do not realize what is happening to them).

    When examined as a whole it does not really qualify as a game since there is no way to win, or to lose. Once you realize that, you can skip days at a time which quickly robs this of any meaning at all. If you have endless hours (50+) and OCD, then this piece of software is for you. If you actually want a game, a sim, or some combination thereof, look somewhere else (as of Jan. 2018).    … Expand
  5. Onkelmolan
    Jul 25, 2016
    7
    Great game with great idea's but something is missing.
    there is no endgame and not really much content ( in Winter you cant do really much).
    But the first 20 hours of game play you are having a lot of fun and that makes it a great game.
  6. Hippie629
    Jul 13, 2018
    5
    The game starts off with a will from your dead grandpa, who has left you a property in the country that was dear to him. So that you can get away from your desk job (where you use a monitor larger than yourself) and get back to nature and enjoy the simple things in life.
    Once you arrive at the property you find it in a unkempt state, strange that place grandpa love so much was so run    The game starts off with a will from your dead grandpa, who has left you a property in the country that was dear to him. So that you can get away from your desk job (where you use a monitor larger than yourself) and get back to nature and enjoy the simple things in life.
    Once you arrive at the property you find it in a unkempt state, strange that place grandpa love so much was so run downed. And you begin rebuilding it by doing various tasks and jobs, while getting to know the towns people.

    The game tries to give off an atmosphere of relaxing and getting back to nature and the simple parts of life, but the mechanics make this a number cruncher were you're trying to maximize your efficacy with each in game day.
    The in game time moves so fast, that you'll always feel like you need to rush everything in order to get things done in time.
    To find out what you need to do, you need to go the bulletin board in town, which wastes time getting to and information like characters birthdays are not saved in your journal.
    So you have to go back to town to keep track of things, which gets repetitive.

    One of the most time consuming things is socializing with NPCs, so you can get gifts in the mail and progress their story.
    You increase your friendship with them by giving them gifts, you need to find them first, which can be a challenge as they move around following a schedule that you can only find out about through trail and error.
    Then you go through more trail and error trying to find out what gifts they like.
    And character interaction only gives you a single line that repeats until you increase your friendship.

    Your characters skill progression is really slow, and doesn't show progress to the next level.
    The skills feel like they should be split up as the foraging skill unlocks the lightning rod and magic totems, while the mining skill lets you transmute metals and unlock cooking recipes.
    Feels like there should be more skills magic, building, cooking Etc.

    The game only saves when you sleep, the menu only exits to the desktop and not the main menu,
    and the map is poorly detailed. The crafting menu is cluttered as it uses the in world sprites for the items.
    The game uses a grabs every item in range if you have inventory room system, that can be a pain to manage.
    Doing precise things can be a problem as you interact with items, which either relies on what direction you are facing or where the cursor is. Miss clicks can happen when you use items causing you to waste resources. The game always asks to confirm you eat something.

    The Fishing mini game is just poorly made and is not fun to play. Mining is can be annoying, as enemies will continue to respawn. A notable bug is, when multiple exit ladders can spawn in a single level but go to the same place. The torches are awkward to use.

    The art of the game ranges from ok to bad. This game has no focus, it tries to be a relaxing game with its tone and dialog, but its pacing and mechanics make you rush through stuff to avoid wasting resource and chances to progress.

    I would like to a more focused game from the developer.    … Expand
  7. tsampson25
    Aug 6, 2017
    7
    Now, I do not want to hate on this game too much because while it's not my style of game, I can definitely. From playing it my problem was I got bored really fast. Now, I can see how others would enjoy this game, but I for sure do not have enough patience to fully enjoy it. It's slow paced but not necessarily in a bad way, just too slow for my personal licking. It's unique, and I liked theNow, I do not want to hate on this game too much because while it's not my style of game, I can definitely. From playing it my problem was I got bored really fast. Now, I can see how others would enjoy this game, but I for sure do not have enough patience to fully enjoy it. It's slow paced but not necessarily in a bad way, just too slow for my personal licking. It's unique, and I liked the feel of owning a farm. One thing that I think is just bad is how repetitive it can get can be really irritating. But i recommend the game anyway, it's not terrible, for some it's a great game! I just didn't enjoy the slow pace, but for sure it's not a really bad game.… Expand
  8. kuehnau
    Mar 7, 2016
    6
    I bought and spent most of my time playing Stardew Valley this weekend. I wish STEAM had a better system then simply to recommend it or not, because a lot of times, that isn't the best or easiest answer.

    Stardew Valley is a 'Harvest Moon' inspired farming/realtionship simulator with a dash of dungeon crawling and crafting thrown in. The graphics are appealing and the music is well done.    I bought and spent most of my time playing Stardew Valley this weekend. I wish STEAM had a better system then simply to recommend it or not, because a lot of times, that isn't the best or easiest answer.

    Stardew Valley is a 'Harvest Moon' inspired farming/realtionship simulator with a dash of dungeon crawling and crafting thrown in. The graphics are appealing and the music is well done.

    Unfortunately if you are already familiar with this kind of game play and mechanics, Stardew Valley really isn't all that creative, unique or innovative.

    The biggest problem with this game is, there has been many, many games, like this before it, that has done a significantly better job at what Stardew Valley is trying to achive. It's a farming simulator, but anyone aware of Harvest Moon can tell you it does a better job. It's a dungeon crawler, but only in the lightest of senses.

    And even then, Rune Factory not only did it better, but offered a huge selection of spells, skills, abilities, weapons, varying dungeons and even bosses. It's a crafting game, but the fact is, it offers much less then more traditional crafting games such as MineCraft or Terraria.

    It suffers from classic issues such as vague quests, plots and more. It can be a massive grind at times and can end up being incredibly tedious, to the point some people may become frustrated. And while multiplayer was initially announced, it's been pushed back for a later date (if we ever see it). Is it just me or is that completely disappointing? The one thing it could have done to really set itself apart from it's predecessors and it doesn't do it. And now that the game has been fully released, how can we expect to see that feature? 'Don't Starve' had to do a completely separate release to account for multiplayer aspects.

    What it boils down is, Stardew Valley isn't a bad game. I enjoyed the time I spent so far with the game, but, it doesn't really do anything new or innovative for a genre that has been around since the 90's. Stardew Valley is really very mediocre. Hopefully, in time, with a few updates pushed out, they'll prove me wrong.    … Expand
  9. Nexre
    Nov 5, 2016
    5
    super friggin slow, like what do I do other than walk around and water plants?

    I dont want meaningless relationships with the npcs, feels like im wasting my time for something to happen and it never does
  10. Zophibee
    Sep 8, 2020
    7
    This game is entertaining and provides hours of fun. However my only issue is it gets boring FAST once you've discovered most things. Even once you get into using Mods, the game is no longer as enjoyable as when you first started playing. They need regular content updates to keep it fun.
  11. Kire_92
    Aug 16, 2018
    7
    A fun and extremely charming game that’s great when you just want to relax and have a good time. It takes the concept of harvest moon and not only makes everything better but it also incorporates new ideas and gameplay mechanics in a brilliant way. Everything from the farming to the combat to the character interactions are great considering the type of game it’s trying to be.

    Though the    A fun and extremely charming game that’s great when you just want to relax and have a good time. It takes the concept of harvest moon and not only makes everything better but it also incorporates new ideas and gameplay mechanics in a brilliant way. Everything from the farming to the combat to the character interactions are great considering the type of game it’s trying to be.

    Though the game is not without its flaws. After playing it for a while things start to get repetitive and things like farming feels more like real lives chores instead of fun gameplay. The game also loses the sense of meaningful progression after a while and after that it loses traction in trying to push me forward in the game. Though these flaws are only based on my personal opinion and these feelings might not apply to everyone.

    Overall it’s just what I wanted from this kind of game and I loved playing it. Though it is not one of the most memorable games that I’ve played, it’s defiantly one of the most charming. If the game had clearer and bigger goals to accomplish it would have hooked me for a lot longer but the magic of the game wore of quicker than I would have hoped. But in the end it’s a good game and I would recommend it to everyone that want to play a charming and relaxing game.    … Expand
  12. AmethystWoe
    Apr 30, 2019
    7
    Kind of a cute game i thout and spent there 80 hours,but then it turned to be wasting so much time that i gave up it for a little bit.Really love it but it gotta be released on phones or it is already released.I found playing it on PC boring.
  13. Wondux
    Jan 3, 2022
    7
    Amazing art style. The game felt extremely relaxing. It was very stress-relieving and enjoyable. I loved interacting with the characters, grinding, and crafting new material. It did not become boring with time - games similar to this usually tend to do that to me.
  14. mariavkj
    Mar 11, 2022
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Legalzinho, mas infelizmente não tenho paciência pra fazer o real objetivo do jogo que é cuidar da fazenda, mesmo com cheats.
    Depois que você casa não tem mais nada pra fazer com o npc, e os bebês não crescem :/    … Expand
  15. Jayces
    Jan 6, 2022
    7
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  16. nitorita
    May 29, 2018
    7
    I'm going to be frank here; I don't see where all the hype is for this game. I played and loved Harvest Moon on the GBA and NGC, and thoroughly played Animal Crossing, Minecraft and Terraria. Unfortunately, this game failed to meet the expectations I had after hearing all the hype that it was supposedly an amazing spiritual successor to Harvest Moon.

    The game is really slow and nothing    I'm going to be frank here; I don't see where all the hype is for this game. I played and loved Harvest Moon on the GBA and NGC, and thoroughly played Animal Crossing, Minecraft and Terraria. Unfortunately, this game failed to meet the expectations I had after hearing all the hype that it was supposedly an amazing spiritual successor to Harvest Moon.

    The game is really slow and nothing much happens for long periods of time besides repetitive farming, and not out of volition but out of necessity in order to make the game gradually less grindy. The game doesn't really introduce anything new to the casual farming simulator formula, and I don't see how it is as good as people claim it is.

    How should I say it? It's like the game doesn't feel satisfying to play. It's as if I'm just pushing on in order to see what happens further on in the game, which isn't much. The only part that's kind of fun to play is the mining because of the battling and exploration, but if that's all I'm playing the game for, I might as well play Terraria instead.

    I've tried multiplayer as well as installing some mods, which significantly improved my gameplay experience, but I'm still struggling to justify playing the game further. If you want my advice, stick to Harvest Moon or Terraria. You'll enjoy (re)playing those instead of this.    … Expand
  17. RoamGod
    Feb 23, 2019
    7
    Игра в своем жанре очень хороша в своем жанре.
    Но она не для всех.
    Кому то зайдет а кому то нет.
    Мне просто не зашла.
    Наиграл не так много, и играл с другом в мультиплеере.
  18. Mister_Jey
    Jan 31, 2021
    6
    → Papy me lègue sa ferme !
    Stardew Valley est un petit jeu chill/tranquille. Ici, le grand-père nous laisse sa ferme et son (immense) terrain en piteux état, ainsi il faut rénover, cultiver et gagner de l’argent pour développer le tout. Si le gameplay est agréable, j’ai quand même l’impression d’avoir fait le tour des choses à découvrir/faire après un peu plus de dix heures de jeu,    → Papy me lègue sa ferme !
    Stardew Valley est un petit jeu chill/tranquille. Ici, le grand-père nous laisse sa ferme et son (immense) terrain en piteux état, ainsi il faut rénover, cultiver et gagner de l’argent pour développer le tout. Si le gameplay est agréable, j’ai quand même l’impression d’avoir fait le tour des choses à découvrir/faire après un peu plus de dix heures de jeu, surtout après avoir atteint le niveau le plus profond de la mine. Je regrette notamment que le plus gros des quêtes consiste a récupérer des objets perdus (je me demande encore pourquoi le short du maire était chez ma voisine !), ou encore de donner des œufs, ou autres… ça finit par perdre de l’intérêt. Stardew Valley est une belle petite aventure à vivre mais manque en mon sens de quelques éléments supplémentaires pour m’attirer plus qu’il ne l’a fait.

    Sortie en février 2016.
    Développé par Chucklefish.    … Expand
  19. CenkAlp
    Jan 3, 2018
    6
    Hikaye = 7
    Oynanış = 7
    Grafikler = 5
    Sesler = 5
    Keyif = 6
    Atmosfer = 6
    Süre = 6
  20. r3venans
    Apr 11, 2016
    5
    8 for effort, decent though unoriginal gameplay, the art style, and mostly nice general aesthetics and feel
    -6 for disgusting cuck content that substantially damages the aforementioned aesthetics and feel
    +3 for moddability
  21. theirrelephants
    Dec 27, 2021
    7
    It was an okay farming sim. Not sure why it's so highly rated, 7/10 is the best I can do.

    Personally, I think rune factory (better crafting/combat/etc) and my time at portia (better characters, story, plot) do it much better.
  22. ZetaJiffils
    Dec 21, 2019
    6
    Llega a aburrir con el tiempo y si haces cultivos muy grandes, te pegas todo el día cogiendo los cultivos....un rollo.
  23. Alvelian
    Dec 14, 2022
    7
    Забавная пиксельная игра про обустройство собственной фермы. В игре достаточно занятий: фермерство, животноводство, собирательство, зачистка 100 уровневого подземелья, много предметов для крафта. В целом очень приятная игра если хочется поаутировать сбежав от городской суеты.Забавная пиксельная игра про обустройство собственной фермы. В игре достаточно занятий: фермерство, животноводство, собирательство, зачистка 100 уровневого подземелья, много предметов для крафта. В целом очень приятная игра если хочется поаутировать сбежав от городской суеты.
  24. bar0yka
    Dec 24, 2022
    5
    minecraftın 2d hali tam olarak ama oyunu rpg yle harmanlayıp sunmuşlar bana hitap etmedi 2d olduğu için usta...
  25. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    7
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  26. ErixKing
    Apr 7, 2023
    7
    Un juego muy tranquilo, con mecanicas sencillas y muy relajante. Disfrutable si sos de la clase de jugadores que no les gusta andar traihardeando
  27. AlexMakesToast
    Jan 4, 2023
    6
    Stardew Valley = 6/10
    .....................................................
  28. Triblue
    May 21, 2023
    7
    Je suis détendu. Le jeu est si banale que je ne comprends pas pourquoi je l'adores.
  29. Twyng
    Aug 17, 2023
    7
    É um bom jogo. No começo você vai ficando lotado de coisas para fazer e a medida que passa se torna mais algo repetitivo e lento. No entanto, é um jogo com uma boa ambientação, trilha sonora e personagens. Bom para jogar com os amigos, anima muito mais o jogo.

Awards & Rankings

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#7 Best PC Game of 2016
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#14 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#10 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. RPG Fan
    Jul 19, 2017
    92
    Stardew Valley is without a doubt the best game in the Harvest Moon genre in many years. It has a subtle message about what it means to live a good life and to flourish through a combination of hard work and human connection. The Harvest Moon games all basically boil down to managing a mix of time, tasks, and metrics, and recent entries in the series have relied heavily on exploiting a new gameplay gimmick with each iteration: in one it's crafting structures for the town, in another it's trading with foreign economies. The problem with this approach is that once these gimmicks are exhausted — all the houses built or all the goods traded — the games feel hollow. Stardew Valley succeeds by delivering a robust experience that does not merely rely on watching a meter go up. It has something to say and says it well, while never abandoning the core gameplay that attracted players in the first place.
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  2. GameGrin
    Sep 23, 2016
    90
    Don't start this game if you value relationships, your job, your social life, and having free time. Stardew Valley will take all of that away from you, but it's okay because it's a great game.
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  3. Gamer.nl
    Jul 25, 2016
    85
    Stardew Valley is a fine, smart farm simulation game. It is slow and it involves a lot of daily tasks, but in Stardew Valley there is something ingenious about those tasks.
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