Stardew Valley (Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon crossover)

LukieBoy007 · 29 Feb 2016 at 09:12

Anyone here playing Stardew Valley? I heard it's similar to Animal Crossing & Harvest Moon and I instantly bought it as I loved them games - I'm only a few hours in but its amazing so far! & what surprises me the most is that this game was only made by 1 guy! The gameplay, soundtrack, graphics, everything is phenomenal if you like these type of games. We finally have a game like this on PC

Only £10.99:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/413150/

If anyone else out there is playing, any tips/tricks you have? I can't farm these parsnips forever

[YG]Bug-Eyed · 29 Feb 2016 at 10:06

Just saw it pop up on steam on Friday and purchased Saturday. Great little game and you're right it's a fantastic achievement for one person.

Nice and simple in concept but well thought out. The wiki needs fleshing out a bit to help though as some things aren't straightforward!

Looking on official forums it looks "modable" also so should only improve. Higher res graphics would be great to improve on the current style, although it does look great in a retro Amiga kind of way

Ashley Jordan · 29 Feb 2016 at 11:52

Absolutely loved playing Harvest Moon.

Deffo will be looking at getting this, Thanks for the find.

Ascendancy · 29 Feb 2016 at 15:13

Played a few hours of this last night. Loving it so far, I've been waiting so long for a Harvest Moon style game to come out on PC.

For tips and tricks and the link I'd check out the subreddit. The developer is quite active on there too.

www.reddit.com/r/stardewvalley

Ayahuasca · 29 Feb 2016 at 15:14

Must resist, remember losing days to animal crossing in my youth.

Muzza1875 · 29 Feb 2016 at 16:05

loving this bought it couple days ago, spent hours on it already.

FrenchTart · 29 Feb 2016 at 17:13

I thought I'd bought this ages ago when it was in early development but apparently not :/

I'll hold out until multiplayer is supported I think. Factorio is taking up about 900% of my gaming time at the moment anyhow.

docsonic · 29 Feb 2016 at 19:46

Bought this for my wife, she hasn't stopped playing it. It's doing very well on steam - overwhelmingly positive with about 20k playing right now. Not my cup of tea though

Raumarik · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:23

Folks, would my 5 year old be able to play this is if I sat with her?

I love her getting into games like minecraft, terrarria etc, realise this may have more text but think I could help her with that side. Thoughts?

Shamikebab · 2 Mar 2016 at 19:46

Hopelessly addicted, it's fantastic

FrenchTart · 2 Mar 2016 at 22:30

Gahd...maybe I'll have to pick this up sooner rather than later.

That said, Factorio is seriously awesome. I might find that too hard to put down

kinger8938 · 4 Mar 2016 at 10:30

Does it work with a controller?

Tempted by this too!

Craig321 · 4 Mar 2016 at 10:34

Only problem is only being allowed to do certain things at certain times

Cyanide · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:08

I think I'll grab this to play with my daughter, could be a good first step to getting my wife back in to gaming too

molinari · 4 Mar 2016 at 11:31

Clav · 4 Mar 2016 at 14:53

molinari said:
I'm really tempted to get this, struggling holding off to be honest.

Can you explain further?

Well considering the game is basically a time and resource manager game i think the complaint is a bit odd.

Not played much but from what I can recall, all the characters have routines so are not in one place all the time, shops have opening times, plants can only be planted in certain seasons, some fish can only be caught at certain times of day, you need to sleep etc etc.

Upgrade · 4 Mar 2016 at 15:59

Seems fun, might buy it at some point.

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 4 Mar 2016 at 16:03

Any way you can zoom out further if you're playing in windowed mode?

It's a great "passive" game to play while watching something else, but it feels way too zoomed in. I tried full screen mode and that felt a lot better, could actually see stuff around me, but I don't have my second monitor atm

Also they're adding co-op later down the line. I got my copy on GOG, hopefully there will be some sort of way to play with other Steam users too (think it's been done before, as long as they don't use Steamworks at frame work...)

Craig321 · 4 Mar 2016 at 16:22

molinari said:
I'm really tempted to get this, struggling holding off to be honest.

Can you explain further?

Clav said:
Well considering the game is basically a time and resource manager game i think the complaint is a bit odd.

Not played much but from what I can recall, all the characters have routines so are not in one place all the time, shops have opening times, plants can only be planted in certain seasons, some fish can only be caught at certain times of day, you need to sleep etc etc.

Exactly this. Not played it myself, but after hearing back from people who have played it, I don't like the way you need to do certain things at certain times. I would just want to build a farm and relax, not worry about that sort of thing.

Shamikebab · 5 Mar 2016 at 09:33

There is no time limit so you don't have to do anything at a certain time except water crops and feed animals if you want them to live. Days are 14 mins I think but you don't have to do everything every day.

I'm in Year 2 Spring now, having a problem with lack of grass for animals! Mine finished, great little game