Stardew Valley: Indie Harvest Moon on PC

[Shackleton]

Just started playing this having picked it up on my phone and thinking how much better it'd be on a bigger screen. Never played one of these 'farming' games before and I'm proper hooked. Having read through this thread I can see why it triggered Blaine 's optimisation and efficiency impulses, every day is like a challenge of organisation and planning. Doesn't really sound like fun, until you play it and 2 hours goes past like 5 minutes. Must be because of the incredible variety of things to do, you're always wanting one more day. Personally I'm in love with the fishing and have already spent many a day after watering the crops just ignoring all the townsfolk, sitting by the ocean and catching fish. Can see me sinking hours into this. Incredible to think it was a one-man project.

Edit- Also, just to add something to this thread other than my BSB blogging, I would say the android version of this is absolutely worth picking up for your phone game. It's got decent controls, although depending on the size of your screen can be a bit fiddly. From the 10 hours or so I played it looks the same and appears to have the same content. Most importantly, it also has a 'save on exit' function, meaning you can just press home if, for example, your boss walks in your office to wish you Merry Xmas and you don't want him to see how your crops are getting on. Then when you start it up again it asks you if you want to carry on where you left off. I'm really missing this feature on the desktop version I must admit.

 

[Blaine]

Yeah, this genre is typically described as "casual."

It's only casual if you don't give a shit about efficiency and optimization. Rest assured that getting a large and complete crop of seasonal plants (for example) is anything but casual. Prior even to the first day of a season, you will need to have your plots, sprinklers, and scarecrows placed in advance; you'll need to plan out what to plant where and why, determine which kind of fertilizer to use (if any), and then you'll have to blast out the front door of your farmhouse on Day One ready to go. You'll need to buy all of the necessary seeds and such (unless you bought them all a year ago, tying up your resources in the meantime), then run around like a madman weeding, tilling, planting, and fertilizing all day and into the night. Plant something in the wrong plot by mistake? Put the wrong fertilizer onto the wrong plot? Too bad, fuck you. Buy or craft more shit, pickaxe it all to bare dirt, and start over... or just live with it.

You're finished, and now you have just enough time to rocket through your barnyard grabbing eggs and milk and then hurl them into the fridge on your way to reach your bed before you literally collapse from exhaustion.

...Oh, did you forget to harvest those pumpkins for a day or two? You're not getting three harvests of pumpkins this fall. You're only getting two. Too bad!

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Anyone playing the new update? Impressions?

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Too bad!

And then you forget about a villager's birthday

It's really no joke that I've found Factorio to be much chiller experience when you compare it to Stardew Valley. The clock is always ticking and there's always something to do. And then you forget to bring your watering can to the blacksmith the day before a rainy day.

 

[Blaine]

You have no idea about Notch's dev history of fishing for ideas from other communities or screwing over his coworkers. He made the right choices since he isn't fucking retarded, that doesn't mean he didn't step on people though. I've had to hear too much about his bullshit for over a decade to pretend otherwise. Smart businessman but by all means a lazy fat Swede that cashed out since he didn't want to be stuck working on a failed project he couldn't fix.

You brought him up out of nowhere and then ranted about him.

Are you by any chance one of those feminists or trannies who begged Notch for money on social media to "support my game development aspirations"?

 

[Derringer]

You have no idea about Notch's dev history of fishing for ideas from other communities or screwing over his coworkers. He made the right choices since he isn't fucking retarded, that doesn't mean he didn't step on people though. I've had to hear too much about his bullshit for over a decade to pretend otherwise. Smart businessman but by all means a lazy fat Swede that cashed out since he didn't want to be stuck working on a failed project he couldn't fix.

You brought him up out of nowhere and then ranted about him.

Are you by any chance one of those feminists or trannies who begged Notch for money on social media to "support my game development aspirations"?

Someone asked why I had negative things to say about him being "independent" when he worked with others in Mojang compared to say full-on independent development when I just mentioned him passingly as a comparison. Feminists are the ones calling Notch a Swedish Nazi when he's a businessman, if anything the Stardew dev is far more liberal and progressive than Notch is even.

 

[Alex]

You have no idea about Notch's dev history of fishing for ideas from other communities or screwing over his coworkers. He made the right choices since he isn't fucking retarded, that doesn't mean he didn't step on people though. I've had to hear too much about his bullshit for over a decade to pretend otherwise. Smart businessman but by all means a lazy fat Swede that cashed out since he didn't want to be stuck working on a failed project he couldn't fix.

You brought him up out of nowhere and then ranted about him.

Are you by any chance one of those feminists or trannies who begged Notch for money on social media to "support my game development aspirations"?

I said something since someone asked why I had negative things to say about him being "independent" when he worked with others in Mojang compared to say full-on independent development when I just mentioned him. Feminists are the ones calling Notch a Swedish Nazi when he's a businessman, if anything the Stardew dev is far more liberal and progressive than Notch is even.

Marxism is inherently offensive. It is just the normal human reaction to try to stamp out when confronted with it.

 

[Derringer]

When marxists own said networking sites it's no wonder why said propaganda gets pushed, it's the same with public companies pushing propaganda when the stockholders are the ones pushing for said propaganda.

 

[Kruno]

Marxism is good. Let us take Notch's trillions of USD and use them to create a socialist utopia. No one will ever have to work again!

 

[Derringer]

They know that's dumb, they just want inflation in your country and you dead because they think that's funny.

 

[Gastrick]

Marxism nowadays is about robbing money from middle-class white men and giving it to lazy, criminal nignogs and towelheads. The lower-level marxists might be given that idea in their minds that it's for a utopia but the (((leaders))) on top know what it's actually for. It's part of (((their))) revenge, even though every time they've been persecuted it has been for just reasons by good people.

 

[Ivan]

So as an outsider who has never played Harvest Moon, I'm curious about picking this up since it's hit its all time low price. I'm going in blind into this, fingers crossed it resonates b/c as an outsider it just looks like a cute chore/time killer game. I'm optimistic that it'll help me enter a zenlike state.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

So as an outsider who has never played Harvest Moon, I'm curious about picking this up since it's hit its all time low price. I'm going in blind into this, fingers crossed it resonates b/c as an outsider it just looks like a cute chore/time killer game. I'm optimistic that it'll help me enter a zenlike state.

It’s a pretty staggering amount of content for a one-man game, and it has a much larger scope than the Harvest Moon games.

 

[Blaine]

I'm going in blind into this, fingers crossed it resonates b/c as an outsider it just looks like a cute chore/time killer game.

I don't play those types of games.

The "Japanese agricultural sim" genre is counted among those types of games, by some—I suppose because in theory you can fuck around doing whatever, and not be overtly/immediately punished for it—but then, in the real world, you can do jack shit with your life and laze around just generally being a loser. Hell, you can boot up Super Mario Bros. and simply have Mario hang out doing nothing, or spend three hours slowly trudging through 1-1 in a stupor.

My pet theory is that it would never have occurred to the Japanese developers of the original SNES Harvest Moon that players wouldn't do their best to work and prosper with efficiency. The mindset of losers who have to be forced and cajoled into doing anything productive is largely alien to the Japanese, and mainly endemic to the West.

 

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[Sukhāvatī]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/21...ted-chocolatier-announcement-trailer-gameplay

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone — better known as ConcernedApe — has announced his second game: ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier, which looks to expand on the Stardew Valley formula with a more fantastical setting and “magical haunted ghost chocolate.”

“In this game, you will play as a chocolatier living in a haunted castle. In order to thrive in your new role, you will have to gather rare ingredients, make delicious chocolates, and sell them in a chocolate shop,” the game’s website explains.

Wonder if they'll use the same title in Russian.

 

[quixotic]

I honestly expected ConcernedApe to be a one-hit-wonder kind of guy who would sort of just fall off the radar, but Haunted Chocolatier seems to have made me eat my words.
And I’ll happily eat those words if the game turns out to be as fun and comfy as it looks in that trailer.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the g*rman plays with scat mods enabled, nobody could have predicted this

 

[jackofshadows]

I liked the new trailer however I expected more innovations both in graphics and the overall gameplay/formula. Well, anything brand new is better than some another mode for SW I guess.

 

[quixotic]

I liked the new trailer however I expected more innovations both in graphics and the overall gameplay/formula.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by the graphics shown in the trailer, ConcernedApe has obviously made some great progress as a pixel artist and character design-wise it’s definitely a step up from SV.
Now the gameplay/formula? It’s looking like Recettear meets Rune Factory more then a Harvest Moon with underdeveloped combat.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Dunno why I thought they did Graveyard Keeper. Wrong devs. So, you get to be RP as Willy Wonka finally?

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Stardew Valley is great in cooperative. Just like Factorio and Core Keeper. Are there other gems on par with these featuring local co-op?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I wasn't aware of those two games so thanks for the heads up on them.

Only news I've seen for HC.

 

[quixotic]

Just looked through this thread again and realized nobody talked about this.

Take a look at the top right corner. That can’t be a coincidence, right?