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Stardew Valley was created by game designer Eric Barone, under the alias of ConcernedApe. During the four years he spent solo-developing it, he taught himself the necessary skills to produce the game’s music, art, programming, and design. The game was released on PC on February 26, 2016, and within two months passed 1 million copies sold. Within a few months the game expanded support to Mac and Linux, it released on Xbox One and Playstation 4 in December 2016, Nintendo Switch in late 2017, and iOS in October 2018. There have been five major post release updates – the first which added new farm maps, marriage options, and content, the second expanded supported languages to include German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. The third update (in late 2018) added Multiplayer functionality, with network code done by (then) Chucklefish programmer Tom Coxon. Starting with the 4th update, Eric formed a small team to help him update the game. The fourth and fifth updates added significant amounts of new content to the game. As of February 2024, Stardew Valley has sold over 30 million copies across all platforms, with over 19 million copies sold on PC alone.

Stardew Valley - Press

www.stardewvalley.net

 

[BennyBlanco]

I loved this game. Bought it on Switch and Steam. It’s just so well done and relaxing.

I hope this dev isn’t a one hit wonder like the Shovel Knight guys.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[cormack12]

Great game, well deserved.

 

[Zathalus]

Gamalytic

An overview of Steam game prices, sales, ratings and much more!

gamalytic.com

Gamalytic being on point as usual (only 18.4 million sold on there but the game is on GOG as well).

 

[ReBurn]

I enjoyed my time with Stardew Valley more than I thought I would. It's such a charming game.

 

[Vandole]

It's a low priced game, that took a proven but underused gameplay system, polished it up, and supplied tons of new content since it's release. It deserves all the success its received.

 

[Comandr]

Absolutely over the moon for Eric Barone. The game is an achievement not many could accomplish. My only dream scenario at this point would be to either

1) have official unified mod support across all platforms
2) work with the creators of Stardew valley expanded to integrate that content into the base game. SVE is beyond amazing and deserves to be enjoyed by everyone.

 

[Edgelord79]

Best game in the last 10 years imo. Still getting patches and content, highly replayable, relaxing yet stressful enough to feel like you don’t quite enough time.

Wish more games were like this.