Stardew Valley

Although we already know about the Stardew Valley Festival of Seasons concert, the developer ConcernedApe expanded to more concert tour dates and locations due to high demand.

Building a life far away from the city in comes with many adventures, not the least of which is building relationships with the marriage candidates in the game. From renovating a run-down farm to helping to restore the community center, there's never a shortage of work to do. However, amidst all the sweat and dirt that comes with farming life, offers a vibrant dating scene to explore. With 12 available bachelors and bachelorettes to romance in, picking a partner to go steady with isn't easy.

Some of the best crops in grow only in Fall, and it's arguably the best season for farmers looking to turn a big profit. Like Spring and Summer, Fall has its own rotation of seasonal crops and all of them have the potential to be profitable. However, to really make the most of Fall, you should focus on growing the best high-value crops, which can be sold for solid profits or used as ingredients for high-quality Artisan Goods.

The developer of Stardew Valley says they're "too protective" of their IP to give away its movie rights - unless the likes of Studio Ghibli or David Lynch are interested. 

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If you’re an avid concert-goer, and you also love Stardew Valley, this may be the perfect concert for you! Concerned Ape, the creator of Stardew Valley, announces the first ever orchestra music tour for Stardew Valley. Currently, there are 14 confirmed dates for the ‘Festival of Seasons’.

As of update 1.5 for, there are 25 Secret Notes, collectibles that can give you directions to secret locations, gifts certain characters would Love, or solutions to puzzles. To start finding Secret Notes in, you need to obtain a Magnifying Glass, which can only be done during certain times of day during the winter. Then, you will be able to find various notes from cutting weeds, defeating monsters, and a variety of other tasks.

After teasing Stardew Valley players about the potential additions being made to the game as part of its upcoming update 1.6, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has taken to social media platform X to elaborate to confirm some of the new features coming to the game.

The creator of , ConcernedApe, has announced a series of interesting new features that will be coming to the game in the 1.6 update. Although no date has been announced for the upcoming update by 's sole creator, Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, a sneak peek at features is particularly exciting for fans of the enormously popular farm simulation role-playing game.

The upcoming update doesn't have a release date yet, but you should get excited.

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has revealed a new screen from his upcoming game The Haunted Chocolatier, which has some fans convinced a beloved Stardew Valley character is set to make an appearance in the highly anticipated confectionery store simulator.

There's a lot of crossover between video games and board games, and not only through their shared use of the word game. Fans of one quite often also enjoy the other which is why there are so many examples of video games being turned into board games and vice versa. A very popular example of that vice versa is Stardew Valley: The Board Game which sold out pretty sharpish. The good news is ConcernedApe has revealed they're back in stock and pre-orders are available now.

Stardew Valley creator Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone has teased fans with a new screenshot for forthcoming game Haunted Chocolatier.

The creator of Stardew Valley has shared a screenshot from his upcoming game Haunted Chocolatier, and it features yet another old man lying in bed. 

«Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen»: That's what you say if you're ConcernedApe, aka Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, and it's apparently a slow Tuesday and you want to wind things up a little bit. And then you post the screen in question, and all your followers immediately go bananas.

It’s impressive when someone manages to create a beloved game experience on their own; or at the very least with a small team. Such was the case with Stardew Valley , and its developer Eric Barone, also known by the pseudonym “ConcernedApe.” What’s even more impressive than that, though, is how that experience was converted into a highly coveted board game. While Stardew Valley: The Board Game was available for a limited run, it’s coming back very soon.

Stardew Valley is set to get its very own cookbook which will allow fans to experience the tastes of over 50 recipes from the beloved farming RPG when it releases in spring 2024.

The Stardew Valley board game is back in action as developer ConcernedApe announces pre-orders are about to begin. 

 If you thought every variation on Wordle had already been done, well you didn't have enough faith in the internet or videogames because there's now a Wordle-like for Stardew Valley. Specifically, it's Pufferdle, in which you guess the fish in Stardew Valley. Oh, and it makes you actually play Stardew's fishing minigame too.

Whenever my eyes see the phrase “it's like Stardew Valley, but…” sparks pop off in my brain, imagining futures farming in the zombie apocalypse or courting my favourite pixel caveman. The next one of those instead focuses on the game’s lovely fishing mini-game and is basically Stardew Valley but Wordle, the other bite-sized juggernaut that’s inspired countless others.

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Stardew Valley is about to join the likes of World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14when it gets its own cookbook in April. If you've spent any time with Stardew, you've probably taken great pains to set up your crops, milk your cows, and establish a supply line for the very important logistical task that is making chocolate cake to present to Abigail. Now you'll be able to replicate the feat in real life with official recipes from none other than Stardew creator Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone.

This upcoming monster-catching farming sim plays precisely like how I'd imagine a Stardew Valley and Pokemon mash-up would. 

Have you ever looked at food in a video game and thought to yourself "Damn, that looks good?" It happens more often than you might think, which is why official cookbooks based on video games is a bigger industry than you might realize. Most surprising of all upon learning that a lot of games already have their own cookbooks is that Stardew Valley isn't one of them, but that's about to change.

The creator of Stardew Valley is releasing an official cookbook which will be full of recipes from the farming sim. 

We can finally experience the tastes and smells of Stardew Valley in real life.

Palia is one of the only MMOs that I’ve had my eye on for ages, thanks to its cozy Stardew Valley type of vibe and its World of Warcraft-like role-playing features. Following a lengthy timeline of closed beta invite releases, Singularity 6 has just announced that the developers have opened its beta to the public for Palia, meaning that we can all jump into the game’s stunning world right now and see how well it blends the wholesome with the whimsical.

This upcoming farming sim puts the JRPG into Stardew Valley as it plays just like the life sim but is set in the rural Japanese countryside.

"Cozy MMO" is a burgeoning new genre in the indie space that I'm fully onboard with, and the latest game to spawn from it is a solarpunk-themed adventure taking Kickstarter by storm.

Palia combines elements from Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley to create a charming and satisfying MMO.

I Am Future has caught my eye, making an impression on me that many other survival games fail to. It merges more wholesome qualities from some of my favorite games ever, like Stardew Valley, with a more serious setting from iconic post-apocalyptic RPGs such as Fallout to create a uniquely cozy experience. I Am Future manages to turn what would otherwise be a grim situation into an opportunity to start fresh, as it introduces you to a flooded world in which you must become self-sufficient atop the once-magnificent city’s ruins.

Indie game highlighter Wholesome Games is hosting its very own event over on Steam with solid discounts on some of my favorite games from the last few years.

A former Stardew Valley developer is now working on their own life sim game, this time set in a bustling California city instead of Grandpa's farm.

We've seen a lot of Stardew Valley-likes over the years, but this adorable farming sim might be the ultimate dupe. 

There's a new Stardew Valley mod that uses AI to let you have unscripted, real-time conversations with the game's many NPCs.

Stardew Valley is a game known for its cosy homegrown feel, with complex, well-written characters populating a little village trying to scrape by under the looming shadow of a mega-corporation. So obviously, an AI company made a mod that scrapes out their personalities and replaces them with a large language model, with the appetising sales pitch: «By default, there are 33 provided brains.»

Cozy MMO Palia has got a huge gameplay reveal, showcasing what players can get up to during the game's upcoming betas. 

Stardew Valley is still one of my favorite farming games ever, years after its release. It sits upon a throne beside other iconic titles like Harvest Moon and its subsequent Story of Seasons entries. What is there to not love in Stardew Valley, from the charming pixel art to the cozy gameplay loop? ConcernedApe recently confirmed that he is taking a break from his work on Haunted Chocolatier to work on a 1.6 update for Stardew Valley. The developer cited the coming patch as small, stating that it would have “much less” content than the previous update, but it looks like it’s going to be anything but little.