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Stardew Valley USD $8.42 (~ AUD $11.15) @ GOG (Historical Low) (Rebel Galaxy FREE with Your First Purchase during The Sale)

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Stardew Valley is an RPG-style farming game. It's up to you to choose your path… Will you devote your time to raising crops and caring for animals? Will you spend time in the local village, befriending the local townspeople? Do you get a kick out of slaying dreadful monsters in the mysterious mountain caverns? Or will you try to accomplish everything and claim the coveted title of Stardew Hero?

DRM-FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.

Metascore 88
Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive 47583 ratings (97% positive)

This game offers so many improvements over the Harvest Moon style that it's a wonder we haven't seen a game like this sooner. Yes, you plant crops, raise animals, ship produce and animal products and use the money to improve your house and buy gifts to impress the single women (or men) of the small town you live in. But the mechanics go so much deeper then that. There are dozens of plant types you grow, from vegetables to flowers, and even more things you can ship and sell, from minerals to fish to maple syrup to mayonnaise to even building materials, like cut wood or mined stone! There's a crafting system in the game that allows you to produce scarecrows, furnaces, syrup taps, fertilizer, and a host of decorative items. You can build multiple types of fences, paved pathways to map out your land, wells to provide locations to refill your water can, and even automatic sprinkler systems.

The townsfolk are lively and every one of them have their own schedule and story lines, even birthdays. They aren't badly translated Japanese characters either (like Popuri or Wizard) They are realistic people with realistic goals and desires that make sense based on their home lives. The quiet bookworm lives in a trailer with her single, poor mom. The handsome, aloof man lives on the beach and surfs all day. The shopkeeper has trouble competing with the mega chain store just down the street, etc. The town, though small, has a ton of charm you'll fall in love with
Combine this with a cooking system, movable furniture, an adventure mode in the mines, and even a collectibles minigame and you have one of the best farm games ever made. Don't call it a ripoff, baby. This game is an improvement over the HM series in every way!

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  • Why [Steam]?

  • Your description makes it sound worse than Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons in some aspects and haven't played none of the recent ones either.

    (Note that the actual series is now Story of Seasons while Natsume is using the trademark to make their own games under the Harvest Moon name)

    Also the creator was a Harvest Moon fan anyway right, so he made his own with the improvements he wanted to see when the series wasn't going in the direction he wanted, he's happy to admit that. He also hadn't played one since he starting making Stardew Valley, he should play Trio of Towns, would be interesting to hear his thoughts.

  • +2

    Great game worth every penny I think I spent over 100+ hours on it and I'm not a big gamer :)

    Can anyone recommend any similar PC games if possible ? :D :D I really enjoyed the exploring and collecting aspect to it… not so much good at the fighting :)

    • +1

      You might like Terraria

      https://terraria.org/

      Or even Minecraft?

      • Don't forget Starbound! :) Though, similar to Terraria, it does have fighting elements in it. Still an awesome game

  • +2

    such a cool game, very cathartic

  • +1

    Is this part of the summer sale where you get Rebel Galaxy for free with any purchase? I'm sorely tempted - I've got way too many games to complete, but I hear many, many good things about Stardew Valley

    • Possibly - haven't tried (resisting)

  • +1

    One of the best game I ever played. It rarely gets any discount even 1 and half year after release.So be quick grabbing this deal if interested.

  • So if you buy here can you play in the Steam client? Or need to download a whole new client?

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      No client at all, GOG is DRM-free only. You can then add the exe to Steam for easy launching, however you won't get Achievements, cloud saving, family sharing and other Steam features.

      • But you can get them via Gog Galaxy

  • Amazing that this was done by one man job.

  • Stardew Valley is my guilty pleasure game. 70 hours logged somehow.
    "Just one more day should do it."

  • hurts me when i see this but im going to get it on the switch….which is going to be like $30

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