Stardew Valley

Thanks guys - figured as much. Always looking for short-session, laptop-friendly Steam games, although if the game is half as addictive as claimed I will be ignoring my parents tonight.

I just got to Summer year 2 over the weekend. I'll be a millionaire by Fall I'm pretty sure. I pretty much have ignored town relationships and fishing to this point, focusing all my time in the Skull Mines and on the farm. I have about 50 - 66% of the farm covered in automated sprinklers. Got my Barn, Coup, and House all upgraded to max. I need to work on finding a wife, but it might be too late to win her over before the game ends, I don't know.

This dude is insane:

I never played the SNES game that many people compare this to. From reading about it and seeing screenshots, it seems like a more complex Farmville. What am I missing in its appeal?

On paper I should hate this game. Farming, fetch quests, crafting, etc I usually despise. Instead i put in almost 100 hours and loved it. I cant explain it.

I think the SNES style and some of the early game subtle mystery was just enough to get me interested. 30 hours later i am min/maxing my run to the seed store to fill in my shiny new sprinkler areas i grinded in the mines for.

Inching towards 1 Million sales, should do it by the end of the month:Stardew Valley - SteamSpy - All the data and stats about Steam games

I can only imagine how many more this will sell when he gets multiplayer working and then Steam starts including it in their season sales.

Bought this the other day. Never played Harvest Moon. How is a farm game this fun?

It says out of season crops will die.

So if my Spring parsnips are 4 days away from harvest and Summer is only 3 days away, is my entire parsnip crop lost immediately or do I get a bit of a grace period to bring them in?

Everything dies the day it switches seasons. Gotta be sure to count how long shit will take to finish.

Yeah, 28 days in each season and when it changes non-specific crops die. The specific ones that survive are Ancient plants (spring-winter) and corn (summer-fall). If you get an ancient seed, don't plant that unless you have a seed maker and the greenhouse (don't lose it to random weather events or what have you) and then put it in the greenhouse. Becomes basically the best money-maker in the game, and you can neglect the entirety of the other crops once you start filling the greenhouse with 'em.

Its not all bad though. The crops die, but the ground underneath them should stay tilled. When the season changes, if you leave the spots empty, there's a chance they revert back to normal ground, and can spawn rocks and trees and shit. Its much quicker to cut down dead crops with a scythe, rather than have to axe/pick/hoe the ground again.

Hardcore farming!