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Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
OpenCritic90IGDB91Metacritic
Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life.
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Cosy, richly built, contemplative and meticulous.
13 profiled raters. Loved most by The Comfort Seekers; disliked most by The Ironists.
We read them all: the case for is rafael.replay's, the case against is tobyplays's, funniest is cozy_cal's. Marked below.
Nice, and I put forty hours in, so clearly it works. But I kept waiting for the game to push back and it never did.
Three hundred hours. I have a farm, a wife, three chickens named after Beatles. The game asks nothing of you and gives you a life. Sebastian was a mistake, though.
A game about tending things, made by one person who clearly tended it. My farm has a name and a graveyard for chickens.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
IGNShailyn CottenMay 202410/10More than just a cozy farming sim, eight years of updates have grown Stardew Valley into a modern classic with an endless list of enticing activities to complete and a deeply satisfying time management challenge to take on.
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EurogamerSimon ParkinOct 2017A modern indie classic on PC finds in Nintendo's Switch the perfect platform.
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Giant BombDan RyckertMar 20165/5 starsFar more than just a farming game, this one-man labor of love is filled with seemingly endless content and heart.
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PC GamerDaniella LucasFeb 201680/100Stardew Valley's blend of pixel charm and gentle pacing makes for an excellent little escape.
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Kill ScreenZack KotzerMar 201673/100Harvest Moon is not that game, and its bells and whistles are traditionally much more limited, structured, and harder circled on the calendar. Despite all odds, it seems Stardew Valley is a different game than the one it mimics. And a pretty fun, different game at that.
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IGDB rating 8.8/10 from 1837 ratings.
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