Comment by bilekas | Hacker News Reader

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For anyone who's on the fence about trying stardew valley, I'd love to take this moment to say try it. Get it. Keep it in your library. You won't be disappointed..

The first time I played I was enamored with the impressive delivery of a sole developer.. as I played on I realised how it's so much it's own beautiful thing, then realised it's my own thing..

I went away from it for a month or so and something reminded me about it and when I went back in I felt that "home" comfort feeling again without knowing I missed it.. this update has done it again.

It's an incredible game yes, but it's very cliché to say , it's really a bit more than just a game determining the min max. It's one of the best games to remind me it's not about "beating" a game sometimes..

Really a masterpiece that for me at least will never be forgotten.

I loved the setting and the style but it seemed very grindy and monotonous after a while. Maybe I'm not the target audience but manually watering a field full of virtual plants is just not my idea of fun. I guess eventually you can automate a lot of this?

Right, there are sprinklers for the watering, then another grade. (Iridium grade is the top, auto waters larger grids). I personally associate grind with 'required boring busy work'.. If that's what you like, you can do that, if you want to automate it, you can do that, its like factorio in a sense, without the pollution factor. :)

I never got into it single player but I'm having fun with my girlfriend on local multiplayer (Nintendo Switch) since we can split up the duties.

I like to head straight to the mines, she likes to take care of the farm/animals.

The only thing I regret is that I can’t play it for the first time twice.

I love that you love it so much. I put about ten hours into it to see what the hype was about a while back and had to stop…because otherwise I would’ve put in way more lol.

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