@ploot

Lol! DLC Rated M for Mature.

@DrFinkelstein

Good to know. I think I'd rather start over at that point, to be honest, because once you have the farm totally set up with auto-sprinklers it detracts a lot of the joy of farming...

So after some more time has passed I wanted to chime in on this again.

I stopped playing for a while as we worked through Xenoblade 2, and the other day I picked it back up to finish out Year 2. Except... I played for like two minutes and didn't want to keep playing. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but time away from the game seems to have broke all the momentum I had going and now I'm just not having any fun at all. Which is odd because I've never had a game do that, as far as I can remember. Sometimes it takes time to get back into the swing of things if I leave a game for a bit, but in this case I literally don't ever want to play it again. It's kind of weird.

I will probably start over at some point, from the beginning on a new save, but at the moment everything in the game just feels dead and lifeless to me. Maybe it's because I quit only a few days after achieving some major in-game goals I had set for myself, like getting married. Now it just feels empty and routine, without anything to look forward to. Strange.

I stopped playing for other games too and I don't think I will ever get back into it unless I hit a huge drought in my gaming, which seems unlikely. I got some fun out of it but it wasn't quite what I want out of those type of games. Something like Animal Crossing feels so much more alive to me.

Please send help. I've already poured 50 hours into this.

@Zero

I don't understand how it works. Is the save file stored on a server so anybody can connect to the farm whenever, or does a host player need to be online for anybody else to play?

I would also like to know how this works, as having online multiplayer would make me interested in this game. Anyone try it out yet?

@Hinph @Mop it up

Host has to be playing, since there is a time element to the game. It isn't like Minecraft where anyone can come in and out and the days and nights don't really matter other than Creepers come out to blow your beautiful work to bits.

So apparently today a Stardew Valley Board Game was announced and released. Whoa. I have no idea if it's any good but it looks to be really high quality from a component-quality standpoint. I didn't read through all the rules but it looks to have a ton of depth and is really trying to board-game-ify the Stardew Valley experience. So cool!