Earlier this year Stardew Valley received patch 1.6, a final flourish from the game's creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone that added a host of new features to a game that's now over eight years old. PC Gamer got the opportunity to talk to Barone in our latest issue about this apparent full stop, and how the developer feels about a game that has now shifted north of 30 million copies.
Update 1.6 arrived in March and, among other things, added a new farm type, support for 8 player co-op, and late game content. But perhaps even more characteristic of it was the sheer number of little things it addressed, like a sword glitch that had irritated its developer for eight years. "Mostly, it's just how I feel, my whims," says Barone of how these updates come together. "It helps when I play the game myself, then I will get ideas: 'Man, I wish this was in the game', or a spark of an idea."
