Back to Stardew Valley

It seems I want to grow things when it is spring. Because I am usually killing plants in the real life, Stardew Valley was good option to try out again. Still that simple game is fascinating and there are those little renovations what gives little extra to it. Like now you can date also Shane and Emily.

Being friends will Emily can be odd.

Haley  tries out  life in the farm.

I suppose Stardew Valley is a good game when I am too tired to play anything longer since you can still save the game every morning. There are still some new areas what I didn't unlock even on the first time so I should focus to explore more and to do quests. But it is taking time when I am still wanting to grow crops as well. Multitasking takes time and progress is slower. But day by day I will go further.

Emily is showing off her skills.

Fishing still gives challenge.

Harvey saw a plane.

Stardew Valley is still a game what I can recommend to play. It was worth of buying if I have been sopending around 200 hours playing that game. That is a lot more than what I usually spend with the most of the games. 

Stardew Valley, first impression

When I saw the trailer from this game I was just meh.. another pixel game. Then I read the praising words about the game from Pelit-lehti (Finnish magazine about computer games) and I decided to give chance to this game. At least I had played farming games before this as well. So why I wouldn't try this one out as well.  

Starting screen looks cute.

You can create your own farmer.

There are quests in the game.

When I downloaded the game from Steam and launched it, first impression was aww... Music was adorable and the game itself had relaxing atmosphere. So I would take it as a time to relax. And in a way it is that way. Farming in the game is repeating same duties day after the day so that your crops would grow. And you need to grow them to earn money and to improve your farm. When you live in the small cottage in the beginning, you can eventually sleep in a good old farmhouse.

Fishing with Willy

There are festivals for citizens on every season. 

Learning the basics is an easy thing. In the game you can explore, have mini-adventures, go to fishing, gather ingredients from nature, build your farm etc. There are many things to do and first of all you will learn fast that you can't do everything during same day. Time goes fast when there is plenty to do and often you have to think beforehand what should be done. At least first year flew fast and only calmer season was winter. Then you do not have to grow anything and you have time to socialize with citizens or explore the world. It felt really a nice little break after three seasons when your focus was on the farming.

Main quest is repair the community house.

The community house is repaired by finishing small tasks.

Even the game is mostly  simple farming, it has made rather interesting. At first I noticed that I played it for hours. Now it is nice to go to play for an half hour what would mean about two days in game time. Stardew Valley is a cool game what is perfect for the evenings when you're too tired to play longer rolegames. Just remember that days are saved during night so.. stop playing soon after waking up and you do not have to live same day again. I will probably make another posting about Stardew Valley where I will give some hints about what to do and how to finish quests. But that will be published later.