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Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

I can never relax with that game. I just get it in my head that I must get my chores done right now and it always fucks my head up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Good.

Nothing against Portal 2, but Stardew Valley just offers so much more for so much longer

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

In game time isn't everyone's metric for a good game. Some of my favorite games only have a few hours of content, but those few hours are really good.

I've watched some let's plays of Starcraft Valley, and I'm glad I did because I probably wouldn't like it, and if I had to give it a rating, it would be pretty mediocre.

I think it being so positively rated is that there are a ton of casual gamers that this type of game really appeals to, not that it has a lot to do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I know it's a typo, but now I want a cozy space ranch game based in the world of StarCraft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Isn't that just Lightyear Frontier?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EulNmvZNXY8

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Lol, yeah, that could actually get me to play. "Whose a good hydralisk? You are! Yes you are!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Stardew lost 100% of it's appeal to me once I learned that the events just repeat year after year and there are no consequences for doing nothing. I really want to get into the cozy vibe gaming space but I just can't seem to do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I would end up with a farm that took all day to water, and never enough time to go down in any mine far enough to find iridium enough to make sprinklers out of, and then stop playing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can buy an Iridium Sprinkler from Krobus every Friday

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I can also say I've had my fun with the game and move on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

wait for a rainy day, no watering needed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

There are some cheap sprinklers you can make pretty early but they only water like 8 tiles or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Can't agree with this. I got dozens of hours out of Portal 2, simply from replaying it so many times (which is an amazing feat in of itself because I never finish games).

Meanwhile I was bored of Stardew Valley after two hours of wandering around and not being able to find anything to do. From what I've gathered, the game expects you to figure out how play it on your own. I'm in my late 30s and I have bills to pay. I don't have the time nor the patience for a game like that anymore.

Edit: Point I forgot to make is that I feel like for a game to be considered the highest rated among them all, it should have universal appeal. But that's just my 2¢.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.

Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.

I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the "cozy game" popularity.

While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it's totally understandable why this headline might be true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

This is pretty much how I am, too. I've purchased SDV three times but could never get into it because I have no idea what I need to do.

Big fan of the dev though and how much he does for the game, even if I don't personally play.

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