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The Latest Breaking News from Stardew Valley

ConcernedApe announces Stardew Valley 1.7 and fans immediately fill the void with hype and speculation

It's happening.

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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.

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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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Coral Island shows pulling off Stardew Valley's multiplayer isn't easy, as the farm sim's devs "sincerely apologize" for the single-player bugs and other issues that crept into its latest update

The long-awaited 1.2 update launched last week

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A Stardew Valley player got their mom into the farming sim, only for her to spend 1,000 hours in-game divorcing "everyone possible to intentionally become enemies" with the entire town

Skyrim grandma, meet Stardew Valley mom

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I was contacted by probably the best fisherman in World of Warcraft, if not any MMO ever, and I was not prepared for how deep the waters went: "It's literally been an almost 10-year battle"

"Stardew Valley is the only [other] game I've gone insane in fishing"

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Former Stardew Valley dev decides against adding a "stink gun" to his new life sim, but offers a compromise by allowing you to torment cityfolk with pungent fruit

Mr. Podunkian's life sim Sunkissed City keeps getting bigger and bigger

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Stardew Valley with animal people and a lot more depression is an instant hit on Steam: "The plague is coming. The community must work together if everyone is to survive"

Grimshire takes ConcernedApe's farming game and gives it an apocalyptical twist

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Former Stardew Valley dev's new farming sim boasts animals that "produce multiple types of items," like sheep milk usable for pecorino cheese – and the carbonara lover within me is thrilled

Sunkissed City is set to be a baa-nger

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Witchbrook dev Chucklefish reignites excitement for the cozy life sim with a series of first looks that are giving serious Stardew Valley vibes: "EVERY citizen has their own look, name, and home"

Mossport is like a witchy Pelican Town

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The best Steam Deck games worth playing in 2026

From Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley, these are the 15 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

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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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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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This post-apocalyptic farming sim might have the best pixel art and Steam trailer I've seen all year, but it's the Terraria vibes that really set the hook

Like a Metroidvania Stardew Valley

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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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Are we getting a Stardew Valley 2? Here’s why you might have heard about a sequel

Crossing my fingers for a sequel.

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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?

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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 "assumed people wouldn't like Pierre," but thinks he's "not as bad as some people think"

The developer thinks Pierre's somewhat redeemed by the end of the 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"

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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.

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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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New 'Haunted Chocolatier' Update From 'Stardew Valley' Creator: When Is the Game Launching?

ConcernedApe has shared a new update for the Haunted Chocolatier, but there's good news and bad news.

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone "started off having no ambitions" for the farming RPG's success, and he was afraid even Harvest Moon fans "would probably hate it"

"When I was making the game there was many times where I thought 'This game's awful. It's not fun. No one's going to like this.'"

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