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Stardew Valley at 10: How a decade in the countryside has helped long-distance relationships thrive

Feature | After sitting down with three gamer couples, I'm convinced Stardew Valley is the ultimate matchmaker

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Stardew Valley creator reveals 14-year-old footage of Sprout Valley, a technically "functioning game" that went on to become a genre-defining farm sim

Things were a little different around Sprout Valley

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An early version of Stardew Valley's mines featured an 'underground goblin village' before ConcernedApe scrapped it

Goblin mode denied.

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The best games like Stardew Valley on PC

Games like Stardew Valley have taken root on PC and now you have your choice of farms and towns to revitalize.

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It's been 10 years since the release of Stardew Valley, and these are the 10 best updates the game has released in that time

From new neighbours to uncharted isles, there's a lot to sink your teeth into.

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10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley

"I still didn't think it was going to be super popular," Barone said of the days leading up to Stardew Valley's launch in 2016.

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Expectations for Haunted Chocolatier are "a huge struggle" for Eric Barone because "there's going to be a lot of people playing this game who are expecting it to be a Stardew Valley 2"

"That's not going to feel good. I know that"

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Stardew Valley 1.7: The farmer's almanac for key details and news on the next big update

Romances for Clint and Sandy, new farm types, and more.

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"I am not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier," says Stardew Valley's Eric Barone: "I know, I shouldn't have announced the game so early"

"The game will come out when it's done"

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Nintendo Switch 2 Just Quietly Added The Coziest RPG Ever Made

'Stardew Valley' kicked off the cozy craze, and it's the perfect fit for your new Switch 2.

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Eric Barone doesn't want to 'reveal much yet,' but Stardew Valley's 1.7 update is starting to sound like another big one

Apparently adding a new farm type is now a tradition.

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Stardew Valley has left Miraland for a new collab, and it looks a little sus

Pelican Town goes intergalactic.

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Working with Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone was "truly an honor," says Infinity Nikki dev after surprise crossover: "Eric was very thoughtful throughout the process"

Cozy overload!

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Stardew Valley's Eric Barone is in the Hollow Knight: Silksong credits for voicing a mystery character

Future EGOT winner Eric Barone?

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Yes, Stardew Valley's newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, 'but not as much as you might think'

Eric Barone says he's trying to be less hands-on with the Stardew Valley 1.7 update, so he can keep his focus on Haunted Chocolatier.

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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 is bringing Stardew Valley's most infamous minigame to Haunted Chocolatier, and fans are already lining up to ask if fishing will be "as ridiculously hard"

Fishing is so back, baby

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As Stardew Valley fans reel from the farming sim juggernaut's Infinity Nikki crossover, Eric Barone says "I never receive any money from these collabs" and "I've only done them because I was a fan of the other games"

ConcernedApe is a man of the people

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Inverse

‘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.

PC Gamer

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.

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Stardew Valley is making an incredibly rare collaboration appearance in a cosy gacha game of all places

Infinity Nikki is crossing over with the farming sim next month.

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Spooky Stardew Valley vibes put this "nightmarish life sim RPG" co-directed by Celeste's artist on my radar, and I can't wait until it launches next year to start my new rural life on a twisted farm

Neverway releases in 2026

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I've been with my partner for 8 years, and these are our favorite couples games that I'd recommend for your next date night

From new indies to classic co-op titles, these are the best couple games to play today

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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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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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