Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone can not help himself. The lengthy and wonderful journey of Stardew Valley growth was alleged to be capped off with the key 1.6 replace, which in Barone’s phrases this April left the sport in “a good place“—so good he would not be “engaged on Stardew Valley till I am completed with Haunted Chocolatier.”
However then in August our green-fingered hero introduced he was going again… for one (point seven) last job.
Barone managed to keep away for four whole months, before speaking at a live concert of Stardew Valley music and blurting out that 1.7 was gonna happen. “Okay, I revealed this at the concert last night and now the cat’s out of the bag,” Barone followed-up on X. “So I’ll verify for everybody: There will probably be a Stardew Valley 1.7 replace. No launch date, no estimate. Nevertheless it’s occurring.”
Our man then answered the query most would need requested: Sure, it is going to decelerate work on his subsequent sport Haunted Chocolatier, “but not as much as you might think.”
That is as a result of, shock shock, such a large hit now has a workforce working alongside Barone to take care of it: even when this bucolic Willy Wonka “want[s] my hand to the touch every bit of latest content material,” he is nonetheless spending loads of time within the (haunted) chocolate manufacturing unit.
Stardew Valley does seem to be a type of video games that, for no matter motive, simply appeals throughout generations. I beloved it means again once I first performed it, which might be virtually a decade in the past now, and was delighted when it was the primary sport my eldest child actually clicked with: and fascinated by how in another way she performed the sport to me, and the way it accommodated and rewarded that totally different method. Maybe that is why it’s, from the horse’s mouth, “nonetheless so well-liked (actually, nonetheless rising) that it is exhausting to simply cease enhancing it.”
In a brand new response to a fan request for a “sneak peek” Barone says “Extra will come. I simply don’t need an excessive amount of hype at this level. It should be some time earlier than the replace is prepared.” The one different factor Barone added to this was an assurance they’d attempt to keep away from the six-month hole between the PC and console launch of 1.6: “I’ll do my greatest to reduce the delay between the 2 in order to not have the identical downside as final replace.”
Avoiding the hype is unimaginable: too many individuals love Stardew Valley, to the extent that Barone and co. might most likely push a 1.7 replace that added a brand new vegetable, and we would all go bananas. However then it’s, by essentially the most goal metric on the planet, the ninth-best game ever made.
