

Stardew Valley has been cited as one of the greatest video games of all time, with praise directed towards its music, characters, and relaxing qualities. British studio Chucklefish approached Barone midway through development with the offer to publish the game, allowing him to focus more on completing it. He used it as an exercise to improve his own programming and game design skills.

He was heavily inspired by the Story of Seasons series, with additions to address some of the shortcomings of those games. It allows up to four players to play online together.īarone developed Stardew Valley by himself over four and a half years. Stardew Valley is open-ended, allowing players to grow crops, raise livestock, fish, cook, mine, forage, and socialize with the townspeople, including the ability to marry and have children. The game was released for Windows in February 2016 before being ported to other platforms. Players take the role of a character who inherits their deceased grandfather's dilapidated farm in a place known as Stardew Valley. For the full details on how to host games and get your multiplayer farming up and running, refer to the full update notes from Concerned Ape.Stardew Valley is a simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone. The multiplayer version of Stardew Valley supports up to 4 concurrent farmers, each needing their own cabin in the game world. You can see a list of compatible mods here. Remove any mods you’ve installed that haven’t been updated for v1.3.


As this update is not yet complete (hence the inclusion of the term “beta”), users will need to opt into a special beta client to get their hands on the Stardew Valley multiplayer update.
