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Haunted Chocolatier: all the key details on the followup to Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley's creator is working on another life sim, and it looks just as sweet as his first.

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ConcernedApe is bringing Stardew Valley's most infamous minigame to Haunted Chocolatier, and fans are already lining up to ask if fishing will be "as ridiculously hard"

Fishing is so back, baby

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As Stardew Valley fans reel from the farming sim juggernaut's Infinity Nikki crossover, Eric Barone says "I never receive any money from these collabs" and "I've only done them because I was a fan of the other games"

ConcernedApe is a man of the people

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‘Stardew Valley’ Is Getting An Unexpected Crossover With Another Massive Cozy Game

Two cozy gaming giants are getting a crossover in a new update, but how exactly their worlds will collide is still unclear.

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Eric Barone says he doesn't get paid for Stardew Valley collabs, and that's the way he likes it: 'I wouldn't want to make money from a collaboration'

The Stardew Valley creator's strategy for collaborations is pretty simple—he works with games he likes.

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Stardew Valley is making an incredibly rare collaboration appearance in a cosy gacha game of all places

Infinity Nikki is crossing over with the farming sim next month.

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Spooky Stardew Valley vibes put this "nightmarish life sim RPG" co-directed by Celeste's artist on my radar, and I can't wait until it launches next year to start my new rural life on a twisted farm

Neverway releases in 2026

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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

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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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It's "more of an action RPG," but Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier is still "a life sim" and "similar to Stardew Valley in many ways" but with more "dark and mysterious" vibes

"Haunted Chocolatier is more dark and mysterious"

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"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 Eric Barone says Disney's farming RPG got him to take notice by its title alone: "Wait, it's called Dreamlight Valley? What's going on here?"

"It's great to see a resurgence of that kind of game"

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Eric Barone has regrets about not fleshing out Stardew Valley's characters more, but likes that it's so open ended since it makes things 'more personal' for each player

There could've been more to Stardew's unsolved mysteries.

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hasn't 'really' played a lot of other farming and life sims, but he appreciates the impact the game has had on the genre—'it seems to have inspired a lot more people to consider this kind of game'

The routine of farm life won't be stopping any time soon.

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Eric Barone is "committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier," but he'll "never say" he's completely done with his magnum opus

Now that Stardew Valley's 1.6 update is "pretty settled," Eric Barone can focus on Haunted Chocolatier

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Eric Barone says Stardew Valley was about 'the fundamentals of human sustenance,' while Haunted Chocolatier is about 'what's next': 'There's another realm of the human experience'

What if making chocolate wasn't a traditional crafting system, but more "intuitive?"

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The 'Stardew Valley-like' genre desperately needs a real name and I have the perfect answer

We can't keep calling them Stardew-like, farmlife without a farm, and "basically Animal Crossing" forever.

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'Baldur's Gate 3's' 'Stardew Valley' Mod Lives On Now Despite Near Ban

A mod that brought 'Baldur's Gate 3' and 'Stardew Valley' together has a happy ending after it was briefly taken offline by a complaint from 'D&D's creator.

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Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown

Karlach would hate all this.

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This cozy RPG promises a Pokemon and Stardew Valley mashup with "limitless customization," 208 monsters, and more, so no wonder its Kickstarter was funded in just 16 minutes

Monsterpatch shows no signs of slowing down

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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

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Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life

Astarion's farmin' on.

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"I'm very ashamed to say this": Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone warns players to avoid certain areas thank to a major Nintendo Switch bug

ConcernedApe's working on a fix ASAP

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ConcernedApe isn't ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: 'Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something'

Now that's what I call games as a service.

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