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Haunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley's creator is working on another life sim, and it looks just as sweet as his first.

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ConcernedApe Shares New 'Haunted Chocolatier' Screenshot: Is the Game Close to Releasing?

Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe has shared a new screenshot for Haunted Chocolatier, featuring a brand-new look for the game.

Player One

‘Stardew Valley’ Is Getting An Unexpected Crossover With Another Massive Cozy Game

Two cozy gaming giants are getting a crossover in a new update, but how exactly their worlds will collide is still unclear.

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Eric Barone says he doesn't get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that's the way he likes it: 'I wouldn't want to make money from a collaboration'

The Stardew Valley creator's strategy for collaborations is pretty simple—he works with games he likes.

PC Gamer

Where Eric Barone used his indie bucks to buy a proper PC, creator of Stardew Valley-inspired hit Rusty's Retirement says he's got the same $1,000 rig after selling half a million copies: "We've literally done nothing else differently"

How Jordan Morris of Mister Morris Games balances games as an art and business

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Saving Hytale isn't something Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe is "thinking about too much" thanks to Haunted Chocolatier, but "If something were presented to me, I would be open to entertaining the idea"

Eric Barone isn't saving Hytale, but he's not ruling it out either

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Eric Barone clarifies he's just 'open to entertaining the idea' of saving Hytale, but he's not pursuing it himself because he's completely focused on Haunted Chocolatier

Barone said earlier this year that he's now fully committed to Haunted Chocolatier, and I'm starting to think that maybe he was serious.

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone receives the highest honor possible: Big ConcernedApe, a gigantic in-game portrait one fan made with 20 hours of painstakingly arranged items

"I'm good with numbers so that wasn't hard, the tough part was figuring out what to use," the artist says

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Haunted Chocolatier will be bigger than Stardew Valley, but that's all I can tell you because Eric Barone literally only said 10 words

There's nothing like a one-sentence update to keep you on your toes.

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"It was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits": Balatro's Localthunk joins team size discourse after Geoff Keighley fumbled it at Summer Game Fest by saying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was made by "under 30" people

For many reasons, no

GamesRadar

Toby Fox urges streamers to "PLEASE dispute" any copyright claims they get over Undertale and Deltarune content, because his RPG music is so popular "it hit a threshold for increased copyright strike aggression. Not kidding"

Fox wants streamers to know his popular tunes should not be subject to copyright strikes

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Stardew Valley creator can only say "interesting, thanks for the info" as he's presumably stunned, as I am, by one fan's devotion to accurate trains in games: "PLEASE add a tender to the locomotive in Stardew Valley"

Sometimes you just gotta get four posts about trains out of your system

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'Haunted Chocolatier' May Be Releasing Later Than Expected, Says Concerned Ape—How Long Is the Wait?

ConcernedApe's latest interview shines light on the Haunted Chocolatier's release date, and it is later than expected.

Player One

Eric Barone says he 'might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2,' but not because it'd make a zillion dollars: 'I honestly don't care about money that much'

Barone doesn't want to "just be the Stardew Valley guy," but a sequel isn't out of the question.

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Eric Barone can't say if Haunted Chocolatier will be out by 2030, but "that's the goal" and "it has to be better" than Stardew Valley

"There's a lot that still needs to be done"

GamesRadar

Eric Barone says "if there was gonna be another" Stardew Valley update after 1.6, he wouldn't announce it until it was "completely finished" on all platforms

If Stardew Valley 1.7 is ever a thing, it sounds it'll release on PC, console, and mobile at the same time

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"I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original

Wait, did ConcernedApe just say Stardew Valley 2?

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"

"Am I going to ruin the teeth of a whole generation?" Barone jokes as he considers a chocolate limit in Haunted Chocolatier

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says Disney's farming RPG got him to take notice by its title alone: "Wait, it's called Dreamlight Valley? What's going on here?"

"It's great to see a resurgence of that kind of game"

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ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"

"I think there should have been a better curve"

PC Gamer

Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'

"I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."

PC Gamer

Eric Barone has regrets about not fleshing out Stardew Valley's characters more, but likes that it's so open ended since it makes things 'more personal' for each player

There could've been more to Stardew's unsolved mysteries.

PC Gamer

'A lot of people hate it, but I think it's fun': Eric Barone backs Stardew Valley's fishing minigame, but does admit that 'it starts too hard'

They call me the Jeremy Wade of Stardew Valley.

PC Gamer

'I kind of failed in that particular aspect': Eric Barone doesn't understand all the Pierre hate and wishes that he'd been 'a little bit more nuanced' when it came to creating JojaMart

Pierre isn't all that bad, but JojaMart is.

PC Gamer

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hasn't 'really' played a lot of other farming and life sims, but he appreciates the impact the game has had on the genre—'it seems to have inspired a lot more people to consider this kind of game'

The routine of farm life won't be stopping any time soon.

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