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'Stardew Valley' Smashes Record Player Count Again Thanks to Steam Summer Sale 2025

ConcernedApe's Stardew Valley sees another spike in its player count amidst this year's Steam Summer Sale.

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Saving Hytale isn't something Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe is "thinking about too much" thanks to Haunted Chocolatier, but "If something were presented to me, I would be open to entertaining the idea"

Eric Barone isn't saving Hytale, but he's not ruling it out either

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone receives the highest honor possible: Big ConcernedApe, a gigantic in-game portrait one fan made with 20 hours of painstakingly arranged items

"I'm good with numbers so that wasn't hard, the tough part was figuring out what to use," the artist says

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'Haunted Chocolatier' May Be Releasing Later Than Expected, Says Concerned Ape—How Long Is the Wait?

ConcernedApe's latest interview shines light on the Haunted Chocolatier's release date, and it is later than expected.

Player One

"We cough up a chunk of our soul": 32 game devs, from Doom's John Romero to Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads, explain what people get wrong about games

Sam Barlow, Metaphor: ReFantazio leads, ConcernedApe's business head, indie legends, and many more weigh in

GamesRadar

Are we getting a Stardew Valley 2? Here’s why you might have heard about a sequel

Crossing my fingers for a sequel.

Destructoid

"I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2," says Eric Barone, but "I just don't care about money" and it's "so much easier" to update the original

Wait, did ConcernedApe just say Stardew Valley 2?

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Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe worries follow-up Haunted Chocolatier might "ruin the teeth of a whole generation": "I'm thinking about doing it so you can only eat like two chocolates per day"

"Am I going to ruin the teeth of a whole generation?" Barone jokes as he considers a chocolate limit in Haunted Chocolatier

GamesRadar

New 'Haunted Chocolatier' Update From 'Stardew Valley' Creator: When Is the Game Launching?

ConcernedApe has shared a new update for the Haunted Chocolatier, but there's good news and bad news.

Player One

Stardew Valley Expanded creator is building an "even more ambitious" mod with a whole new city and "dungeons inspired by The Legend of Zelda"

Not content with getting a job working on Stardew Valley proper, FlashShifter is continuing to mod in his spare time

GamesRadar

Cozy farming sim Stardew Valley has sold over 41 million copies as of right now, with over half on PC and almost 8 million on the Switch

Not bad for a mostly solo developer

GamesRadar

Eric Barone warns that Stardew Valley's hat mouse has gone missing, but only in Spanish games

Adiós ratón

PC Gamer

Stardew Valley creator has bested his own cursed minigame to snag 100% achievement completion on Steam

"The dev gave me a pat on the back".

PC Gamer

When is Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update releasing on consoles and mobile? ConcernedApe reveals date

There’s not long to go till players on more platforms can try out new farm layouts and talk to even more Pelican Town residents

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A group of modders are building 'Baldur's Village' in Stardew Valley, an idyllic little town where you can date Astarion and maybe hang out with some of those other guys

Two great tastes that taste great together.

TechRadar

Haunted Chocolatier development will continue when 'Stardew Valley's 1.6 update is settled' says ConcernedApe

Development on Haunted Chocolatier will continue when Stardew Valley's 1.6 update is settled, according to ConcernedApe.

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley's Eric Barone is "eager" to get back to working on Haunted Chocolatier but wants 1.6 "bug-free and out to all platforms" first

The 1.6 update is just one of ConcernedApe's projects

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley will now beat you unconscious and leave you for dead on a mountain if you use an out-of-bounds glitch to cheat

Mr. Qi is not amused

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8 years after launch, Stardew Valley is still breaking records with a new peak concurrent player count just hours after the 1.6 update release

There's a lot of new content now in the farming sim

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley 1.6 update release date and patch notes we know so far

Here's everything you need to know about the big Stardew Valley update

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley's developer has some advice for composers trying to get their music out there: "All I had to do was develop an entire video game from scratch"

Becoming a game dev allowed ConcernedApe to be a composer

GamesRadar

Stardew Valley fans are debating whether update 1.6 will introduce an island filled with raccoons, and I hope they're right

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Prairie Island

TechRadar

Stardew Valley is set to receive its 1.6 update next month, but only for PC so far

Stardew Valley's 1.6 update finally has a release date, but it only applies to PC players so far.

GamesRadar

The biggest Stardew Valley community warns users that it is "not affiliated" with "exclusive" Discord charging for membership

"We would never charge you to participate in our communities"

TechRadar

Haunted Chocolatier - everything we know

Haunted Chocolatier's release is likely a ways off. Here's what we do know about the upcoming life-sim.

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