Stardew Valley

 Xbox One
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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 140 Ratings

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  1. dal_4648
    Jan 1, 2017
    10
    I found this game to be very surprising refreshing. I've never played Harvest Moon, and wasn't too sure to expect going into this game, but I figured for $15 I would give it a go because it looked fun and had some good comments from other players who played it on PC. The first time I played it I actually was only planning to play it for maybe an hour just to try it out, and ended up stuckI found this game to be very surprising refreshing. I've never played Harvest Moon, and wasn't too sure to expect going into this game, but I figured for $15 I would give it a go because it looked fun and had some good comments from other players who played it on PC. The first time I played it I actually was only planning to play it for maybe an hour just to try it out, and ended up stuck in it for 6. I think I spent about 50 hours in about two weeks on this game. It's very addictive, colorful, and I love the characters when you get them to open up and build relationships with them. The game has a few minor stutters and occasionally issues with the cursor feature on the Xbox One, but nothing that ruins the game. The colorful Super Nintendo like graphics, casual game play, rewarding selling system, variety of activities to engage in, and beautiful music (especially the fall music) make this game easy to enjoy and lose a lot of time in. The crops and animals can get a tad repetitive, but there is always something to do or work towards in the game.… Expand
  2. Troublewalking
    Jan 3, 2017
    10
    A great surprise. A very cute and addictive farm sim with tons to do. If you loved Harvest Moon you should love this. I have had no issues as others reported. I have not had a crash and neither have any family members. So they must have patched it. The only down side on this is it cost me $14.99 plus tax on the XB1 store, when steam had it $5 dollars less and doesn't charge taxes. But atA great surprise. A very cute and addictive farm sim with tons to do. If you loved Harvest Moon you should love this. I have had no issues as others reported. I have not had a crash and neither have any family members. So they must have patched it. The only down side on this is it cost me $14.99 plus tax on the XB1 store, when steam had it $5 dollars less and doesn't charge taxes. But at least on XB1 myself and other family members can be playing on multiple XB1's at the same time and unlike Steam no one get's booted from a shared title.… Expand
  3. Mat780
    Jan 1, 2017
    10
    Okay this is a Fantastic game this is my favorite game of 2016 and will be so much hours with in 2017 because I love it it's a game for relax but you can use for be a life game because you can marriage have kids and other things but this game I have played in PC and when I see in the store of Xbox one I was like I have saw a ghost LOL but I bought in the xbox one for dont' be far frontOkay this is a Fantastic game this is my favorite game of 2016 and will be so much hours with in 2017 because I love it it's a game for relax but you can use for be a life game because you can marriage have kids and other things but this game I have played in PC and when I see in the store of Xbox one I was like I have saw a ghost LOL but I bought in the xbox one for dont' be far front this game I confess when I was playing for the first minutes the game get laged but returned and when I pass the year the game crashed but have the upade that solve the lag and I dont' know if the bug of the pass year is fix because I tried a method and have worked I pass the day without selling any kind of a thing and the year passed I thing the problem was in the time when the money was put in your acount and in the same time passed the year and game can't resolve what was more important to run in that time pass the year and transform the farm or put the money in your acount... or other bug but this game is an unforgettable expirince!… Expand
  4. rodericrinehart
    Feb 20, 2017
    10
    I have definitely played enough to tell this is a beautifully crafted, fun, addictive game that checks all kinds of boxes for nostalgia, entertainment, and one more turn (or day). It has a lot in common with Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, and borrows small amounts from Terraria, Minecraft, and Don't Starve, but perfects the formula by taking exactly what it needs from those franchisesI have definitely played enough to tell this is a beautifully crafted, fun, addictive game that checks all kinds of boxes for nostalgia, entertainment, and one more turn (or day). It has a lot in common with Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, and borrows small amounts from Terraria, Minecraft, and Don't Starve, but perfects the formula by taking exactly what it needs from those franchises and focuses on the farming, gathering, crafting, and relationship sim.

    This game will have INCREDIBLY long legs and be played by many people for many years. It has a vibrant community and a lot of depth and challenge for people wanting to do everything. Me, my wife, and my daughter all love this game!    … Expand
  5. lessthankris
    Jan 20, 2017
    10
    Harvest Moon for the modern generation. Enjoying this console version of the PC game I already have a thousand hours in with. Controls are excellent as well.
  6. CptRedBeard
    Feb 2, 2017
    8
    As someone who spent many hours playing Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, I really enjoyed my time spent in Stardew Valley. At the beginning, you have 5 different locations to choose from ‒I picked up Hill Top map‒ and, from there on, my journey started.

    The game lets you start off with your own house, tools required for your labor and money to spend on seeds. It will gradually teach    As someone who spent many hours playing Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, I really enjoyed my time spent in Stardew Valley. At the beginning, you have 5 different locations to choose from ‒I picked up Hill Top map‒ and, from there on, my journey started.

    The game lets you start off with your own house, tools required for your labor and money to spend on seeds. It will gradually teach you how everything works, even though most gamers will just skip right through the tutorial information and focus on the actual gameplay.

    Experienced gamers will probably find the beginning little bit slow and boring, when day after day you feel like you are doing nothing but pickaxing rocks, axing trees and slashing grass; but the further you progress in the game, the more enticing it becomes ‒crafting mechanics, such as sprinklers for your soil or better weapons. Yes! You will at one point get your hands on a sword and from there on progress in the game's "dungeon crawl" style mechanic, where you will go into a cave, fight different monsters ‒everything from a zombie to a normal bat‒ and find ladders to advance further down into the cave to come across newer materials to use for your crafting.

    Also, you can take a break from being a dungeon explorer and a farmer by exploring the game's sims like mechanics, where you can talk to people, like a blacksmith who will let you upgrade your tools and weapons, or you can crack open geodes for a small amount of money, or even attend the seasonal festivals they have, like the Flower Dance festival, Stardew Valley Fair or the Feast of the Winterstar and many many more... There is a library where you can go and return artifacts you have found for small rewards. There is also a relationship meter for each NPC in the town that you can build up, find someone to marry and eventually have a kid with.

    Both sound design and music are fine. I did enjoy the music, it was nice for what it was and fitted with the game's style and design, not something i would look up on Youtube to re-listen except for maybe one or two tracks that did stand out to me, but it is a nice and relaxing background tunes for those countless hours in the night spent in front of the TV screen getting hooked on farming, interacting with the town's NPCs or going to their seasonal festivals which there is 2 festivals for each season and, of course, killing monsters in the dungeon.

    I found myself plenty of times being more addicted to Stardew Valley than i have been in years playing video games. It is really a relaxing fun piece of gem that really have done a great job at making the three completely different gameplay elements that is farming, dungeon crawling and relationship building with the towns npcs feel unique and good. I strongly recommend it for gamers out there wanting something with a feel good quality and where everything you do is building up to something but at your own pace.

    This is my first review. I hope you, the reader, enjoyed my review and found it helpful.

    Continue to have a good day, my fellow gamer.    … Expand
  7. akismi
    Feb 1, 2017
    10
    THE WINTER IS COMING... Made by one person alone! one of the best sim games ever made in history! you can feel every second, every minute of it. prepare! the winter is coming ...
  8. Donaldor
    Feb 26, 2017
    10
    I found this game to be very surprising refreshing. I've never played Harvest Moon, and wasn't too sure to expect going into this game, Once i got it i wa swallowed by the content that the game has to offer!
  9. Omar_El_Azzouzi
    Mar 4, 2017
    10
    I'm just giving it a 10 eve tho i'm a ps4 owner because xbox fanboys give this game a 0 because it got a patch on ps4 and not on xbox one..... WHAT THE **** !!!!!!!!
  10. Nerves82
    Dec 23, 2016
    0
    UPDATE: After waiting a week!!! (PS4 got a fix in 2 days) for a fix to the game breaking crashes, I still end my Stardew gaming time with a crash. I have yet to turn the game off of my own volition, but become too disappointed when I have a good day and then the whole thing is blown to hell when the game crashes trying to save at the end of the day. Seriously, this is F##king STUPID!!UPDATE: After waiting a week!!! (PS4 got a fix in 2 days) for a fix to the game breaking crashes, I still end my Stardew gaming time with a crash. I have yet to turn the game off of my own volition, but become too disappointed when I have a good day and then the whole thing is blown to hell when the game crashes trying to save at the end of the day. Seriously, this is F##king STUPID!!

    This is a crazy fun game, THAT DOES NOTHING BUT CRASH!!! I have lost sooo much progress on crashes when I sleep and save, to just a random crash when I am walking around. I want to play the game so much, but I know that I will loose all my progress. It is absolutely outrageous that this game was released in the unstable condition that it is in. And what is worse, this has been in issue since the game released and there has not been a hot fix yet. The developer, or whoever is responsible, should be staying up through the night fixing this bug to get a hot fix out the the public. But to my knowledge, a patch is "in the works with no release date". FIX IT NOW or don't sell games!!!    … Expand
  11. CenkAlp
    Jan 2, 2018
    6
    Hikaye = 8
    Oynanış = 7
    Grafikler = 5
    Sesler = 5
    Keyif = 7
    Atmosfer = 7
    Süre = 6
  12. neomoonsevin
    Feb 24, 2023
    4
    stupid graphics look like it stepped out of the 1986 2d graphics ahoy im not into this type of graphics in todays world that was yesterday so no i hate the 1986 look of the graphics and no way i will ever like it
  13. TomKing13
    Jul 17, 2022
    7
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  14. boilingpointuk
    May 23, 2020
    10
    Tiny retro game with vast playability

    A true sleeper of a game. Sucks you in and takes over your spare time
  15. Lukecali97
    Oct 25, 2018
    9
    star dew valley is an amazing game based around having a fruit veg flower and animal farm that suck you into its world for tenth,s to hundreds of hours
    it has a fantastic story that i refuse to spoil any part of
    amazing sense of progression of seeing your farm getting bigger and bigger and earning more and more money interesting npc,s that can rival even the best AAA games out their and    star dew valley is an amazing game based around having a fruit veg flower and animal farm that suck you into its world for tenth,s to hundreds of hours
    it has a fantastic story that i refuse to spoil any part of
    amazing sense of progression of seeing your farm getting bigger and bigger and earning more and more money
    interesting npc,s that can rival even the best AAA games out their and you can even marry some of them if you want to (by constantly giving them gift,s like gold diggers pretty much)
    you can go fishing and either sell them eat them or use them later on in the game to make fertilizer
    you also can go mining for ores like copper steel gold and iridium which you can use to upgrade your tolls and also make other stuff for your farm as like kegs so you can make wine and coffee
    on top off the progression off your farm and upgrading your tools theirs also the ability to fill up the local museum /library with unique artifacts and ores you can find in the world for rewards
    and theirs also the community center which tasks you with collecting specific items and bringing them back to the community center like certain plants you can find in the world fruit veg flowers animal products fish and also ores if you collecting everything the community center ask you to collect it is massively rewarding in every single way possible and if you don,t want to go on a massive collectathon to get these same rewards you can just simply pay with the the in game currency to get those same rewards if you want as well but going the community center route and completing it will give you a massive sense of pride and accomplishment (the real you not the EA one lol) the complaints for the most stuff are pretty small but i say the 3 main gripes i have for the game that i will cover for this is
    the controls they fell awkward at first and unfortunately no you can,t change the controls at least that,s been my experience with the Xbox 1 it might be different for the pc version though
    i also felt like dying in the mines is to punishing for a game that,s as chill and mellow as stardew valley is so always bring food with you when you go mining so that you can replenish your health and lastly while the tutorial at the beginning was great i did fell like the game could off done a better job explaining how the mid to end game stuff worked i found at least for me the best thing to do was to look up the stuff i needed information for either on the star dew valley wiki or on YouTube
    overall this is a amazing game that i would definitely anyone that into any sort off farming game    … Expand
  16. Sigfrid0s
    Mar 10, 2017
    8
    Excelente juego, lo disfrutaras de principio a fin, para ser un juego hecho por una unica persona es formidable, vale cada centavo. Desde que comenzamos hasta que tenemos una granja estable, podremos elegir como vivir, con quien casarnos y que cultivar o criar.
  17. GeekyGamer314
    May 4, 2018
    10
    This game is so much fun! I'm just under a year into the Xbox One version of the game, and I've smiled the whole way through. So, you inherit a farm from your sadly deceased grandfather and decide to move there. From there, you're free to do whatever you want! You can ignore everybody and focus exclusively on your crops, you can go fishing to earn all your money, you can even goThis game is so much fun! I'm just under a year into the Xbox One version of the game, and I've smiled the whole way through. So, you inherit a farm from your sadly deceased grandfather and decide to move there. From there, you're free to do whatever you want! You can ignore everybody and focus exclusively on your crops, you can go fishing to earn all your money, you can even go underground to mine and slay monsters. But, my favorite part of the game is the townsfolk. I won't go into specifics to avoid spoiling anything for anyone who hasn't had a chance to play yet, but each character is given care and attention. So, yeah.… Expand
  18. humunguschungus
    Feb 25, 2019
    9
    With an obscene amount of content and simple but addictive game play Stardew Valley is one of the most engrossing and relaxing experiences in years. If you don't enjoy it then you simply aren't human.
  19. HumanoidGREY
    Aug 5, 2022
    10
    This game might not be for everyone, but for the target audience it is aimed for it is a masterpiece. It's really hard to get my head around the fact that a single person made this whole game. It might be easy to judge the pixelated style these days with all the graphical violence that current day systems can produce but the game oddly drags you into it once you start playing. You won'tThis game might not be for everyone, but for the target audience it is aimed for it is a masterpiece. It's really hard to get my head around the fact that a single person made this whole game. It might be easy to judge the pixelated style these days with all the graphical violence that current day systems can produce but the game oddly drags you into it once you start playing. You won't even notice it's graphical style anymore since you are too busy farming, exploring and mining. I loved every second of playing this game and can only recommend others to do so too.… Expand
  20. JayMVP
    Jun 22, 2022
    9
    Stardew Valley is a game that most people probably dive into, not expecting the most out of it, and end up being really surprised of the actual beauty this game brings. It's extremely addictive and there is so much stuff to do that, even after hundreds of hours you still haven't done everything. There's a lot to learn in this game that you might only learn on your second, third maybe evenStardew Valley is a game that most people probably dive into, not expecting the most out of it, and end up being really surprised of the actual beauty this game brings. It's extremely addictive and there is so much stuff to do that, even after hundreds of hours you still haven't done everything. There's a lot to learn in this game that you might only learn on your second, third maybe even fourth walkthrough and it feels like a completely new game every time. easily one of the best games I have ever played.… Expand
  21. maintitle
    Jun 4, 2022
    8
    I love this game a lot because I'll play it once every six months with a new farm, get to know the towns people, make a bit of money and build a home, get some animals and plant crops until they inevitably become so numerous that I spend most of the in-game day taking care of them. Then I play through winter and give up in Spring because, despite all the options to take care of things, II love this game a lot because I'll play it once every six months with a new farm, get to know the towns people, make a bit of money and build a home, get some animals and plant crops until they inevitably become so numerous that I spend most of the in-game day taking care of them. Then I play through winter and give up in Spring because, despite all the options to take care of things, I can't keep up with the actual farming in the farming sim anymore.… Expand
  22. Joe2539
    Jan 3, 2023
    10
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  23. Furiamanca
    Sep 4, 2023
    10
    Sencillamente me encanta, lo compre en todas las plataformas qué tengo, buena música, buena historia, relajante, adictivo y sorprendentemente hecho todo por una sola persona, en parte me cree cuenta en este sitio para poder darle una buena calificación.

Awards & Rankings

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#5 Best Xbox One Game of 2016
43
#43 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2016
36
#36 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2016

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89

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. SomosXbox
    Jul 21, 2017
    97
    Stardew Valley is an unique game. At the first time, it's looks like a pixelated Harvest Moon, but is more complicated than that. Is a reality that you don't want to escape.
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  2. TheXboxHub
    Feb 13, 2017
    90
    Come and join the mission to rejuvenate the marvellous place that is Stardew Valley; it’ll be the best farming experience you’ve ever had.
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  3. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Feb 4, 2017
    80
    Essential for lapsed fans of Harvest Moon and anyone looking to just get away from it all. [Feb 2017, p.88]
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