I am also the type of person who gets stressed playing SV. It cause I put stupid pressure on myself to do everything. Need to learn to chill a bit more.
I understand completely! I had to remind myself that it's ok if I don't get the CC done in the first year. And it's ok if a quest expires. And I don't need to go to the skull cavern if I don't want to.
The root cause of the stress is the time management aspect of the early 1-2 seasons. Like I’m on the way over to Clint to pay him to upgrade my Axe to copper tier, and when I’m crossing the bridge to get to the western part of Pelican Town, I realise that I forgot to actually bringe the Axe with me, and so the walk home then back to Clint will cost me something like 2.5 hours. The core motivation or goal, for me although I very much doubt I’m unique in this, is the desire to get my farm 100% Sprinklered. I want it largely Sprinklered from Summer day 2, almost completely Sprinklered from Fall day 1, and starting Winter day 1 I want to never have to use my Watering Can at all ever. That requires me to get the wealth snowball rolling early and fast.
One thing that really helped me enjoy the game was understanding how Mr. Barone intended the game to be played, he designed it with the intention that you do it however you want, take as long as you need. Want to spend all your time in the mines? 100% doable and there aren’t any negatives. Want to do only animals? You can. Just because you don’t do one thing or another, you’re not going to be punished. Everything is possible without something. Don’t wanna grow crops? The trading cart will probably sell it. things like that. The reason the town doesn’t age with the years is so you can take as long as you need. There’s no repercussions for building a coop on year 5 vs year 1. The game was designed to be slow and had things added (like the optional quests) for those of us who need more direction. It’s a rounded game for everyone who might like it.
There's nonsense in your claim about "spend all your time in mines" because there's obviously a limit of what players can do, since character passes out after 2am if awake, plus you get minus in your inventory from some NPC.
i feel like i’m being judged if i don’t achieve certain goals in a time crunch but i just realized how ridiculous that is. no one is judging me but myself
I understand. I’m the same way. You’re doing amazing, and you have enough time. You can achieve everything, no matter how long it takes. All that matters is that you don’t give up.
I have anxiety, so trying to not get stressed at this game is hard, and with my ADD Autism brain all the stuff that’s possible, makes me feel like I have to do them
A lot of people stress the time limit of grandpa’s evaluation, wanting to get 4/4 candles lit or to get the iridium cat statue. If you don’t get it first try you can always place a diamond in the “diamond shaped hole” at the alter to get re-evaluated.
I have OCD, and this game does stress me if I play it without mods. One thing I wish ConcernedApe would just add to base is the ability to save at any time. I think it would help a lot of people de-escalate that feeling that they're going to miss out or lose something if they mess up. The ability to have multiple saves would be great too. For single players, there are mods that I use to mitigate my stress-inducers, like one that lets you save at any time, and one that has cheats, so if you need an extra item, or to freeze time while you go through your checklist of things that you want done, or extra money- just give it to yourself; it's better than stressing. The time freeze, especially, is great because then I don't specifically worry about if I can get done or not.
Two things I desperately want changed is the ability to customize your baby (I'm a Black woman and both children I had were White with brown hair, even if they were different genders) and at least TELL players that in multi-player, time doesn't stop. So I'm sitting here and allow my friend into my game to decorate my house and I try to make it to spirits eve, get a cutscene I've never had before and obviously want to watch, only for it to now be 2am the second I get out of the cutscene and miss my first ever Spirit eve festival-
@@kdidit117 it was Harvey so I just sold everything I had to afford coffees twice a week 😭 god bless the wiki. I had to restart too since my first real game got deleted by accident so I was just immediately grinding to get back to eight hearts.
I used to get so stressed over the game, but now I'm just playing it relaxed. If I don't get myself a quest done, fine. If I don't get certain crops in time, fine. I just play it, enjoy it, and once I stop stressing over it, it becomes more a comfort game than anything else
I would stress myself to open the animal gates and do the crops, do quests, and actually make it to the mines but I literally started going: you know what? I'll try to do it and if I don't do it, meh
@@gabriellejacquiet9925 my main stressor is that I try to pet the animals everyday so I just Google until I learned there was an autopetter, learned how to get it, and made that a future goal. Something to remember with the game is that if you're tired of doing one thing, there's SOMETHING ELSE. I don't wanna focus on my crops? I'll leave them for the time being with a sprinkler and focus fishing for profit
As a brand new player it was absolutely "Too stressful" to me but I decided to change a lot of stuff up. Basically I'm not a farmer, and am a fisherman. I'm missing out on a lot of stuff for the time frame, comm ctr is just stagnate, and money is VERY slow and pretty minimized but I'm also pushing VERY hard on my social life and have at least 1 heart wijth just about everyone and have multiple at 4 hearts. So socializing and fishing is my prime area of focus.
Time management anxiety induction is 100% a valid critique of this game. Whether it affects you as a player depends in part on your attitude, but game design has a lot to do with it too. There is so much time-gated content. Clint closes at 4. Marnie's hours are even tighter. Crops and fish are season-bound, meaning you gotta wait a year for some to come back around. Many people stop playing before then. The game pushes you to make somewhat arbitrary goals for yourself, which are rewarding if done optimally, and punishing if not (you're forced to play another day/season/year). You say there's no game over screen. Au contraire, on Fall 1 you might decide to buy hundreds of deluxe speed gro and pumpkins, intending to get 3 harvests. First harvest comes around. Oh no. It's Wednesday! And you forgot to re-purchase seeds from Pierre earlier. You are doomed to only 2 harvests and that fertilizer investment was a waste. For some players, this matters a lot; it's game over (try again). Sometimes it's not even about playing optimally, it's about chasing one maniacal gopher mini-objective after another. @6:30 What??? YES, of course there are incentives to do specific things in video games. Sure you can do whatever you want, but certain actions and achievements result in progression and thrilling gameplay loops. Actions that result in nothing changing are disincentivized to help players discover the exciting stuff.
He fails to realise that the pixel grpahics are what makes stardew so accessible. High-quality FPS 60 games have A LOT of data and take a really good computer to run. Stardew Valley, despite having so much content, saves a lot of room and power with it's graphics. It also makes the art style really easy to mimic which is why there's so many amazing mods; you can put all your focus into the programming and make sprites in MS paint :3
also that it just looks good. pixel art is a charming style that gives the game its own unique feeling and charm it just wouldn't have if it was all rendered out in a 3d high definition style
Relatively new player here but absolutely glued to it. I think the only legitimate things i have complaints about is how the relationships work. I feel like based on a mixture of heart events other npcs should be able to grow into a relationship depending on heart event reactivity. Example: Clint, Penny, and Sam. If you have penny at, say 6 hearts, itd act as a point where you can encourage her to ask out Sam where she'll then get a new schedule and whatnot. Or you can discourage her or even ask her out yourself leading into her marriage candidacy. If she remains single you can then do clints heart event. You can egg him on to confess to penny or tell him he needs to stop, if they get together it becomes a sort of awkward romance thing where they both get new schedules just like with Penny and Sam, or you can tell him to get over her because XYZ. Then it gets into an entirely new mechanic and that is negative hearts, with negative hearts you get unique heart events that focus predominantly on more mean things. If marry penny after talking down clint he then removes all his hearts and starts on his negative heart track. However if you marry penny before you get to the necessary heart events for clint he remains neutral as you were allegedly unaware of his admiration of her. The simple inclusion of negative hearts, and negative heart events would add alot to the gameplay longterm, if you keep talking to everyone everyday but specifically single out Sebastian or something than hed grow some resentment. It also make the game alot more dynamic which is never not fun.
I love this game. I just do whatever! I just don’t worry about it. :) I’m autistic and I genuinely love using this game to collect, sort, and organize to my heart’s content. And something about it that I love over Animal Crossing is that you can SAVE and walk away, for however long you want lol.
a complaint that i, a person who absolutely loves this game, have that im surprised wasnt talked about here is the fact for a lot of the game you need a wiki or some outside source to find out anything like how are you supposed to know that artifact spots if you hoe it will cause stuff come out? either you will think its a decoration or pickaxe it for a lot of players, and a lot of fish you have no idea when, where or how to get only their names (which especially suck for the community center) and there are some choices you have to make without knowing what they mean like CC vs Joja or more importantly fruit bat vs mushroom cave (i say more importantly as it has a bigger impact the entire game and you dont really know the results before making the choice) dont get me wrong a wiki can absolutely enhance a game but if its so heavily required that can be annoying for some people especially on consoles that you cant just alt tab to a wiki also there are some things that absolutely should be learned by the player on their own (like gift reactions) but not almost everything
100% agree, at some point i just stopped trying to play while learning on my own because it’s so hard to figure out things on my own. like with the walnuts specifically, there’s just a bunch in incredibly unknown spots that couldn’t be found without a guide or a wiki which is incredibly irritating when trying to achieve perfection.
Watch TV. Personally I've learnt about artifact spots during my first winter thanks to Farmer's chanal. With other things too. Of course you can read Wiki, but also you can go to the Valley's library to read about how you can walk past the goblin and so on. That's a gift to attentive players in a long run.
@@jlmmysteve i mean for walnuts for example that actually makes sense to be hard to figure out as they are puzzles the only dumb one for me was the flute puzzle
livin' off the land and library books for some things. but things like the cave decision i think are supposed to be fun surprises, and add to the replayability. cc vs joja: it HEAVILY implied that cc is the "right" choice.
@@adropintheocean6282 well yeah but like if you dont get every single little living off the land. i know some people (including me) who went years not knowing you could untill soil with a pickaxe
I think a big part of the rush for me is the seasons. Trying to finish the community center as quickly as possible to unlock the island means I have to really crunch to do things like pigs before the end of fall or the fishing bundles. After that though I usually stop stressing so much.
for me, when i get bored i just get off for a few hours and come back. Imo, if you get bored just play a different game since theres so many different things you can do in this game lol
I find the game immensely stressful and anxiety inducing because of how short the days are and I am constantly being rushed to make progress and if I forget one thing, I have to double back to the farm, and… Oh, the blacksmith JUST closed, no opening geodes or upgrading equipment for me. I find I EITHER have to 100% focus on raising stats OR the social life, since trying to mix and match means I can’t even FIND all of the villagers, then I didn’t even cut down any trees, break rocks, etc. Or if you have a request with a specific NPC, it’s next to impossible to FIND the NPC without using the Wikia, which I was trying my hardest to avoid doing for my first playthrough. I literally had to restart the day I was on over 100 times because I just WASTED the day trying to do something, and then I had to redo the essentials tasks (petting my dog, watering my crops, harvesting any ready ones, put a couple into storage in case anyone needs them, sell the rest, etc) and quite often it wasn’t until 3pm that I could even LEAVE the farm by which point I physically cannot go to the blacksmith before they close and it’s just SO stressful.
Dude i think the issue here is that you need to just take your time and enjoy the game, it's not meant to be stressful after all. You should just play at your pace instead of trying to maximize everything, it's fine if you do certain things late in the game. The game does not force you to, you can barely have anything done by year 4 and the game would not punish you for it (well unless you count grandpa ghost i guess)
@@nanaminn9256 it's more self-imposed, which isn't super easy to work on (at least for me) the thought of the time just looming there and then now you're passed out because you weren't paying attention, and it's 2 am (ingame). And the indecisiveness (another self-imposed issue) doesn't help very much This tends to be an issue for me with a lot of games, so I usually play multiplayer. Maybe if I played Multiplayer Stardew it'd be a different experience :P
but you dont HAVE to rush everything down to a day, a week, whatever! stardew has no year the story ends- you can play as long as you need to. it could take you a season and a half to get just one upgrade and you wont be late or out of time for anything
@@youbroughtyourdog44 you are CONSTANTLY being rushed and you can’t even do half of the things you want to do. If it was up to me, I’d take my time in places like the mine and break every single rock at my leisure, but since the days are only about, I think 14 minutes, you NEED to rush if you want to make progress since you need to at least go 5 floors down, otherwise you might as well have not even went down. Note, I DID beat the game and have the platinum trophy, but on my first playthrough it was SO stressful that I’d stop playing for weeks at a time because it was completely overwhelming and my stress levels were through the roof.
@@MalachiLperI do think the early game would be much less stress-inducing, if it was more constrained by Energy and less constrained by time. Like if the player character could walk 10% faster always, and the days were 2.5 or even just 2 minutes longer. And if Clint and Pierre and maybe Willy too kept their respective shops open just 1 in-game hour longer. When you screw up, find out you’ve walked to a place without bringing the critical item you need, you lose *SO* much time and it feels really bad. I also think the starting backpack size is too harsh. I think it should start with 14 slots, first upgrade adds 12 more, second adds 10 more, so you still end with 36. Inventory management is frustrating and stressful, and the only way to escape that is to hustle hard for more coin, which is the root source of stress.
^ | this guy doesnt have the option of making 1k+ a day without food or money cost from day 2 If youre good at fishing it is so busted early game. Catch me making 3-4k on day 4 cause i can catch catfish with fishing lev 3-4. Plus if you get perfect catches you level so goddamn fast
I'm glad I never thought the game was stressful. I was happy that I could do everything as slow as possible and take years to complete stuff. Only some quests have time limit and I can ignore that.
I wish I hadn't bothered to pause and read through that snobs review. Pixel art isn't lazy, it's a perfectly valid art style that many people enjoy. I can't stand people who treat their preferences like they're these iron clad facts. It's like they're so self-centered they can't even fathom the idea that someone might enjoy something they don't.
I’ve been binging this game like crazy and have been enjoying it way more than i thought i would. however, i do think there are some valid criticisms with the time system and friend system. i don’t think the time system is a problem in that it exists, i think it’s a problem in that everything else is on a sort of timer. people’s schedules are cool as a concept, but you don’t know said schedules unless you’re actively looking a ton of things up. sure they’re only simple consequences like when Marine and Robin disappear before a time you thought they’d be there. but i feel the limitations are there to add “soul” to these characters, like they’re moving around existing. but it kinda doesn’t convey that since they do the same thing every week, and say the same things all the time. it just feels like an inconvenience when you’re trying to plan your days. speaking of: the “stress” play style makes sense. people are gonna want to maximize what they can do in a day, or a season, or a year. it really isn’t defeating the purpose of the game when the game gives you the limitation of a timer i think. if the game was truly just meant to be taken slow and at your own pace, the time limitation would be much broader and your character would move faster. but as it stands, your character is very slow without buffs (that you don’t get for a bit) or a horse, which even then isn’t the fastest thing around. the timer’s speed i believe is there to create a tension, same with the 2 am issue. the fact that a player can’t sacrifice energy and health to stay up late a couple nights is pretty limiting as well. not to mention when you’re punished for it with a money loss too, as if the energy nerf wasn’t enough already. this does make people play around a specifc time frame. even if it’s as simple as missing a seasonal fish that you’ll have to wait another year to attempt, i do wish that there was a bit more control over when you slept to create a dynamic of resource allocating. idk rant over, overall I do think people who play stardew trying to maximize their time isn’t really a strange concept. if other people take the game very slow, that’s how they feel it’s intended to be played. many others view resource management games like this tho as more of a challenge rather than a cozy game. after all the combat isn’t very… intuitive and the relationship system is very bare bones. so many people instead opt for unlocks and progression as their main form of fun, rather than sitting back and slowly going thru each of the days. that’s my opinion anyway!
I understand the stress part but it's a personality thing, not a flaw in the game. I have thousands of hours in the game and I'm still constantly telling myself that it's okay that I failed a quest, did not plant everything I wanted of day one of the month, or do not have all it takes to upgrade my watering can when it's going to rain the next day. The worst penalty in the game for "failing" at something is having to wait a bit before being able to try again. Mods are a good way to reduce things some might find stressful, I used the following for that: UIInfosuite2, Automate, CJBCheatsMenu. UIInfosuite2 let me see what I planted and how much time left for them to grow, also how much time for a machine to be done, price of items in inventory (which can now partly be done with a book in 1.6), automate let you automate things like you can put a chest next to a mayonnaise machine and put the eggs in it so the machine automatically process them one after the other. I use CJBCheatMenu to cheat at fishing, i set it for instant catch but not instant bites. I did instant bites at first and one hit kills but found that making the game that less stressful made it less enjoyable for me.
i just really wish it wasnt only saving when we go to sleep, my computer sometimes shuts down so i lose my days progress, in the sims that doesnt happen to me cause i save after every important milestone plus stuff in stardew valley is randomized so if i lose that day the foragables and stuff i get in the mail will be different :(
That part of only saving when sleeping is actually my favorite because if I mess something up like selling/trashing something important I can just close the game and restart. Also works if I wanna choose the unhinged option when talking to villagers just to see what they say >:D
@@Smallkittylove i feel like youd still be able to do that if there was availability to save all the time (when we sleep would still count as saving as well) im not asking for automatic saves i just want the option to save whenever i want to save and not have to start a new day
For the last part, you can reset the day to randomize what you get in the mail. So, say you got a cloth from Emily and your computer crashes, you can just reset however many times it takes to get it again.
Im a new player who plays in coop with a friend. I do like the game. For me the worst part is relationships. I don't have any urge to talk or gift presents to most of the npc. I also hate how it seems nobody ever works. Especially adventurers guild. Very annoying. Not going to romance anyone, but candidates kinda suck. They all look and act like kids. All the good ones are not available, I just don't understand why if romance is part of the game. Another thing is grinding. But i know its optional and our fault we grind so much both being perfectionists. Hope to get to more relaxed gameplay once more things are automated. Love the mines. Just got to skull cave. Got my ass wiped a few times. Wanna get a revenge lol. Can't wait. Caves are my favorite part, good thing that my friend loves farming
@@laterronadizona thank you! Heard about krobus, really like the idea, but me and my friend desided to marry our characters) i know it serves no purpose, but yeah. To my understanding you cant get krobus if you're married, no matter if its with npc or the other player, which is unfortunate. :/
I think that the relationship system in SV is pretty good, because no one IRL will instantly love you just because you appeared out of nowhere. Having to talk to the NPCs to gain their friendship feels realistic (something funny you can do is talk to the NPCs during the flower dance until their friendship raises enough for you to be able to dance with them... kinda creepy tho), since to become friends with someone you actually have to learn what they like and even give them gifts if you want to show that friendship. That's something that makes me like the game, since I actually have to put effort into making them like me (Sebastian and Elliott feels like the hardest of them all, since they stay locked up inside their house and they don't like anything that's not fancy-).
Time anxiety is a natural thing. For me personally, it's big motivation, like fear. The in-game day being so short reminds me of how in-real-life days are also so short... But for a while, I kept up with my expectations of my progress. I honestly stopped playing after trying to get to skull caverns floor 100 and just get stopped by time. It felt like the game saying "Ha, too slow!". Kind of killed the magic. Only later did I find out staircases exist 😅.
My problem with this game is the RNG. Oh boy, where do I start....... It has been a week and I still haven't finished the jojomart bundle. Other than that, finding certain things to complete task and stuff is mad annoying I wish I could just buy them sometimes because it really be getting on my nerves because it can prevent you from accomplishing things
the problem with "just buying them" is then the game would become even more "rush a good money farm, use it to achieve everything" then it already is. also, the only 2 items affected by RNG in the missing bundle are dino mayo and the prismatic shard, of which you only need to complete one. And dino eggs arent all that uncommon you should get multiple just from doing skull caverns for other loot. I guess you can get unlucky and not hit any prehistoric floors.
If it gets too hard to find the dino egg or etc for the joja bundle You can enter the ítem code between [number] when you name an animal in game (farm animals) then boom you got it
I put in like 9 hours a day when I first got it and love the game. Only thing I could say is I wish you could do more with your kids and dress characters/gift clothes lol. We all probably wish days were a bit longer so yeah it can be stressful but its still an amazing game. That guy is a hero for doing the world a great service by creating it.
I enjoy Stardew and spent many hours in it but saying there is no time-related stuff in it is not true at all. Requests expire fast, you have to collect stuff for community centre and that stuff is season-limited, and you have to achieve certain heights to not disappoint your grampa after first 3 years or so (I played a lot when SV came out but after that I just start new saves from time to time and chill in them so don't really remember that part with grampa's spirit much as I usually just don't get to it anymore). Businesses close at certain time, you move slowly, days are limited in time, you can really feel it esp in Skull cave where you have limited time to go thru the floors. Personally I didn't feel stressed as I am more of a chill player but can totally see why ppl can be stressed in it. There's so much to do and the game totally does make you feel like you better speed up or else. Tbh I just don't do requests at all to not stress myself and do foraging or fishing lifestyle playthroughs, creating new save files for freshness. Planting a huge potato field for max profits just feels like a nightmare to me (that's what my bf did early game when we both just got it years ago. He was all focused on money money money and got burnt out quickly while I continued playing)
I can at times feel stressed and overwhelmed by the game even though I love it. It's probably my second favorite game of all time (right under Deltarune). But the reason I think people become stressed by it is not by anything that the game does or because they're greedy. Instead it's because of the importance our society places on money and the human desire to lead a fulfilling life. You might wonder what that has to do with a videogame, but I think that because these two things run so deep (you need money to live and be comfortable, you have limited time before you die) without even thinking about it consciously they roll over into the simulated life.
Do the stone and iron ones break as well? Ik wood does so I switched over to hardwood eventually since it doesn't, but I really like the look of the stone and iron ones. I would love to use them if I don't have to fix them practically every week
Stardew actually stresses me out because of the time factor xD Like... I wanna do so much each day and get stressed if I can't finish something - but I guess that's also related to me being neurodivergend (OCD) and having anxiety about that kind of stuff. But I think I'll just download some mod to keep everybodys hearts at 10 so I'm not stressing about talking to everyone on a regular basis anymore. I think that will help because I know that the game itself should be calming
In regards to time management, you can also just install a mod that makes days longer. I did that just to make the game even more chill. I will say that it completely breaks the balance of the game, but whatever.
I used to be able to play casually and all that, but now I *know* I can get to the desert around spring 22-ish, so I feel slow if I don’t! And I also HAVE to catch the Legend in year 1… stupid brain, I don’t actually have to do either of those things 😣
I’m just gonna say the ability to be gay made me happy since I can date everyone Currently on my third sqve trying to get 10 hearts for Harvey. On my quest to marry and get the 10 heart event for EVERYONE
i bought my first gaming pc as a gift to myself for an academic achievement. it was a bad idea b/c whenever i played any game i felt like i had to achieve something to make it worth the time i was spending away from school.... i'm a nerd, i know... that only lead to ~1000 in stardew lmao because i would always hyperfocus on min/maxing. took me so long to let go of that mindset...
Im also type to stress out but in later game like 3rd yeard plus. At some point put pressure on myself the longer i play and end up burning out on the save so im making new saves every so often. I just like early stardew way more yet still have 600 hours in game and having a blast till this day! Also the longer i could make my save was 6 years, there is also that i feel like after few years there is just nothing to do exept upgrade your farm, village is dead and you have no more reason to really go there which sucks and that's why i preffer early game so much.
But you can get them the next time that season rolls around, there is no reason to get it done the first year, or the year after, the opportunity always comes back
Me and my friend created a co-op farm after 1.6 and after 2 weeks we are unable to get in! Every time I am hit with ‘connection failed’ and I’ve tried pretty much everything! Does anyone have any advice?? I love our farm and we also cannot join any new ones we create either :(
For real: I have autism and borderline. I don't think this is a game for me (stress, "have-to-do" etc) Yes, I know it, just chill and play but...therre's knowing and feeling. At the same time I'm living-loving-laughing and playing the sh#t out of Needy Streamer Overload and Doom🤣. And I love visual novels like Chaoshead;Noah. Visuals novels are my go-to games, now I think about it.
Contrary to what many many negative reviewers claim, there is indeed sex in this game. It's just not graphically laid out porn-style for us to witness. For players who like that kind of content and the general idea of the game's mechanics, there are several mods that introduce it into the game.
Might stupid but very annoying is when I "accidentally" raise the affection of townspeople the the next day I got shoved by countless consecutive cutscenes and it really breaks the immersion, especially if they're contradict to each others. But the game is generally stressful. No way this is chill game. You can try to be chill, but that's not how the game designed to be. Each day is only consisted of 15 minutes, item prices are quite expensive and hard to get materials, missable interaction and dialogues, on top of that Granpa visits literally after 2 years which basically to 'inspect' your progress. It can be solved by gatekeeping contents. For example year one is only able to do A, year two you can now do B, etc so there's no sense of urgency and rushing everything in 2 years just so you can chill afterwards (you won't). Limit cutscene shown in the game to 2 per days. So player always looking forward to move to next day. Also to keep consistency. Delay Granpa visit to only when you summon is also a must if you want the game to be chill. Regardless of what granpa said to you on his visit, it's still quite stressful experience because those mechanics imply you will be judged based on your achievements for the past 2 years.
Why are you stressing over what Grandpa says? Take your time, it doesn't matter. And if you're worried about trying to do everything in 2 years... Well, you can't unless you are speedrunning on purpose.
@@Blueninja-xt4ci When you participate in a competition: you can just enjoy the flow, make a new friends, seek new experience. Hell, if you're lucky, people around you even support you to do that. Totally zero pressure environment. But still... In every competition there always be a winning side and losing side. Each still always have its own meaning. You can still be happy even if you're losing, but you will still feel inferior to the winning side. That's how the competition is designed. Why do I'm stressing over what Granpa says? Because that's what the game intended. As I said, you can be as chill as you want. The game facilitate you, even if you do nothing, Granpa still emphasized that what matters the most is your happiness. But deep down, you know that's not what it meant to be. You will still get better response if you make Grandpa proud. You even get statue of perfection as prove of your hardwork.
@@definitelyhuman4510 totally agree. Stardew Valley is so wildly successful because there is both a ton of freedom and a constant, addictive force pushing you to want more than you have (until late-game). The struggle against the clock is exciting, and sometimes exhausting. Annoys me when people say I'm playing the game wrong by min-maxing. I'm doing what the game is implicitly telling me to do. If it makes you feel inadequate, then I'm sorry that sucks, but it's your problem not mine.
Stardew is a great game, but it certainly has downsides. For the first year, it's the least chill of all the chill farming games. You gotta power level your fishing skill high to get that octopus, that only spawns on rainy summer nights, and there are some years where that might never even happen, and you probably don't even know you have to do this unless you have already beaten the main game before. Your just gonna have to use the wiki, or your going to waste TONS of time, like potentially years, because so much content is time locked to a certain time of year.
that's olivia, an npc added by the "stardew valley expanded" mod. no idea if she's a matrix reference in any way, but the mod does let you marry her if she's your type!
I get why a lot of people are bored- a lot of people get powerful PCs so they can play very intense, high graphic games, so farming games might not be their thing.
Honstly runed factory and story of season are way better and origional can't stand this clone and honstly don't understand how he got away with this much plagirism I mean for real are there ANYTHING origional about this game.
Seems like people who complain about "a lack of incentive" really mean "the lack of clearly defined long-term quests" or goals. Most games have those and it is kinda weird to not have that. It's not a bad thing but I can see why for some people it would be an issue. Subjective but valid. Personally, that and time management is what made Stardew very stressful for me the first 2 times I tried to play it. I felt lost and rushed at first and gave it up for like 3 years till I watched some beginner guides on YT and understood the game better. Now I love it but I needed some help at first and I had to wrap my head around the "no long-term goals" idea without it being scary to me.
2:53 "there is 0 time-gated content in stardew valley" Almost. there is exactly ONE quest, that has a narrow 1 hour window, that you get through the mail. Jodi asks you to bring her a largemouth bass for dinner, at 7pm in game (can be after). The problem is unless you have the keys to the town (late/end game item from mr qi), her house closes at 8pm not technically fully time gated since you CAN do this on any day, but it can be a huge PIA if you keep missing that 1 hour time-frame like i did for at least a year, with a largemouth bass in my pocket there are a handful of things like this, like festivals can have certain windows to enter the map or else you miss it, but to be fair this is just me nitpicking the direct meaning of a sentence lol mostly i felt the need to point it out bc this dumb quest is one of the most annoying ones IMO and is *technically* time-gated per day
Speaking of pixel my first game was Pong. So, for me, I DESPISE low pixel games and could never see a reason why anyone would have even a minimal desire to go back so many years in graphical advancement. Then I saw Project Zomboid-oh ya, I also now despise top down games. The first time I saw a PZ vid I couldn't believe peep would play something so low end looking then I saw another vid then bought the game and it's now one of my fav's. Not too long after I saw some streamers playing SV and about an hr in I knew I wanted it but it was still pretty pricey. I waited for a hefty sale and finally grabbed it and am VERY glad I did. I'm having some issues with my system now that I'm pretty sure is related to microsoft/updates or wutev but there's some games I just can't play. SV I CAN play and it's so much fun but can be a little overwhelming if you intend to get every single aspect of the game done as fast as possible.....at least for me.
I am currently playing this game for my first time and am about to hit year 3... I have not had a very pleasant experience. I am not a fan of games taking tutorials and hiding them from you. Why in the world is there a library that you have to unlock the books in when the books explain core gameplay mechanics. That is called Artificial Difficulty, and that doesn't make your game more challenging. I feel like the game hates my guts every time I play it. It just feels like that game just wants to play by itself and doesn't want to have to share its toys with you. And the entire Winter Season is the biggest noob trap of them all. I hope you looked up a guide or have at least a few playthroughs under your belt. Because if you didn't then you won't make any money and all of your animals will die. This game is so stressful for all the wrong reasons. I'm still having the hardest time understanding why this game has so many defenders for it. I can see how it would be fun if you could turn your brain off and just goof around, but at that point, why are you even playing Video Games?
I am also the type of person who gets stressed playing SV. It cause I put stupid pressure on myself to do everything. Need to learn to chill a bit more.
I understand completely! I had to remind myself that it's ok if I don't get the CC done in the first year. And it's ok if a quest expires. And I don't need to go to the skull cavern if I don't want to.
Same over here, Im more of hardcore games but still like to play chill games but instead of chilling I always rush them 🫠🫠
Just remember there isn't a time limit for Stardew valley. You can take however amount of years to complete the game and have no consequences.
Lol. I only ever play "cozy games" with the intention of min/maxing everything to perfection.
The root cause of the stress is the time management aspect of the early 1-2 seasons. Like I’m on the way over to Clint to pay him to upgrade my Axe to copper tier, and when I’m crossing the bridge to get to the western part of Pelican Town, I realise that I forgot to actually bringe the Axe with me, and so the walk home then back to Clint will cost me something like 2.5 hours.
The core motivation or goal, for me although I very much doubt I’m unique in this, is the desire to get my farm 100% Sprinklered. I want it largely Sprinklered from Summer day 2, almost completely Sprinklered from Fall day 1, and starting Winter day 1 I want to never have to use my Watering Can at all ever. That requires me to get the wealth snowball rolling early and fast.
One thing that really helped me enjoy the game was understanding how Mr. Barone intended the game to be played, he designed it with the intention that you do it however you want, take as long as you need. Want to spend all your time in the mines? 100% doable and there aren’t any negatives. Want to do only animals? You can. Just because you don’t do one thing or another, you’re not going to be punished. Everything is possible without something. Don’t wanna grow crops? The trading cart will probably sell it. things like that. The reason the town doesn’t age with the years is so you can take as long as you need. There’s no repercussions for building a coop on year 5 vs year 1. The game was designed to be slow and had things added (like the optional quests) for those of us who need more direction. It’s a rounded game for everyone who might like it.
There's nonsense in your claim about "spend all your time in mines" because there's obviously a limit of what players can do, since character passes out after 2am if awake, plus you get minus in your inventory from some NPC.
i feel like i’m being judged if i don’t achieve certain goals in a time crunch but i just realized how ridiculous that is. no one is judging me but myself
I understand. I’m the same way. You’re doing amazing, and you have enough time. You can achieve everything, no matter how long it takes. All that matters is that you don’t give up.
Definitely judging you for your marriage choice.
Ghost grandpa is judging you. You don't want to let down ghost grandpa, do you?
@@whitemagus2000 he never is let down though, so nbd
I have anxiety, so trying to not get stressed at this game is hard, and with my ADD Autism brain all the stuff that’s possible, makes me feel like I have to do them
what is there to be stressed about on stardew im genuinely wondering. its such a peaceful game for me 😭
@@llpaganllsame here I’m so confused how someone could be stressed playing this game lol
I cheat with mods to not get stressed
@@papillondenu1t Like I said, I have anxiety, and with my autism it’s either I do everything in a day or nothing
@@llpaganll right 😭 like theres no actual to-do list given by the game
A lot of people stress the time limit of grandpa’s evaluation, wanting to get 4/4 candles lit or to get the iridium cat statue. If you don’t get it first try you can always place a diamond in the “diamond shaped hole” at the alter to get re-evaluated.
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I have OCD, and this game does stress me if I play it without mods. One thing I wish ConcernedApe would just add to base is the ability to save at any time. I think it would help a lot of people de-escalate that feeling that they're going to miss out or lose something if they mess up. The ability to have multiple saves would be great too.
For single players, there are mods that I use to mitigate my stress-inducers, like one that lets you save at any time, and one that has cheats, so if you need an extra item, or to freeze time while you go through your checklist of things that you want done, or extra money- just give it to yourself; it's better than stressing. The time freeze, especially, is great because then I don't specifically worry about if I can get done or not.
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Two things I desperately want changed is the ability to customize your baby (I'm a Black woman and both children I had were White with brown hair, even if they were different genders) and at least TELL players that in multi-player, time doesn't stop. So I'm sitting here and allow my friend into my game to decorate my house and I try to make it to spirits eve, get a cutscene I've never had before and obviously want to watch, only for it to now be 2am the second I get out of the cutscene and miss my first ever Spirit eve festival-
@@goingferalluvs you married before your first fall? Impressive
@@kdidit117 it was Harvey so I just sold everything I had to afford coffees twice a week 😭 god bless the wiki. I had to restart too since my first real game got deleted by accident so I was just immediately grinding to get back to eight hearts.
@@goingferalluvs lmao😹
I used to get so stressed over the game, but now I'm just playing it relaxed. If I don't get myself a quest done, fine. If I don't get certain crops in time, fine. I just play it, enjoy it, and once I stop stressing over it, it becomes more a comfort game than anything else
I would stress myself to open the animal gates and do the crops, do quests, and actually make it to the mines but I literally started going: you know what? I'll try to do it and if I don't do it, meh
@@goingferalluvs That's a good way of playing the game, makes it more fun
@@gabriellejacquiet9925 my main stressor is that I try to pet the animals everyday so I just Google until I learned there was an autopetter, learned how to get it, and made that a future goal. Something to remember with the game is that if you're tired of doing one thing, there's SOMETHING ELSE. I don't wanna focus on my crops? I'll leave them for the time being with a sprinkler and focus fishing for profit
As a brand new player it was absolutely "Too stressful" to me but I decided to change a lot of stuff up. Basically I'm not a farmer, and am a fisherman. I'm missing out on a lot of stuff for the time frame, comm ctr is just stagnate, and money is VERY slow and pretty minimized but I'm also pushing VERY hard on my social life and have at least 1 heart wijth just about everyone and have multiple at 4 hearts.
So socializing and fishing is my prime area of focus.
Dude based on this video quality I was expecting you to have a huge following! Keep it up, man. You’re making some awesome content.
Time management anxiety induction is 100% a valid critique of this game. Whether it affects you as a player depends in part on your attitude, but game design has a lot to do with it too.
There is so much time-gated content. Clint closes at 4. Marnie's hours are even tighter. Crops and fish are season-bound, meaning you gotta wait a year for some to come back around. Many people stop playing before then. The game pushes you to make somewhat arbitrary goals for yourself, which are rewarding if done optimally, and punishing if not (you're forced to play another day/season/year).
You say there's no game over screen. Au contraire, on Fall 1 you might decide to buy hundreds of deluxe speed gro and pumpkins, intending to get 3 harvests. First harvest comes around. Oh no. It's Wednesday! And you forgot to re-purchase seeds from Pierre earlier. You are doomed to only 2 harvests and that fertilizer investment was a waste. For some players, this matters a lot; it's game over (try again). Sometimes it's not even about playing optimally, it's about chasing one maniacal gopher mini-objective after another.
@6:30 What??? YES, of course there are incentives to do specific things in video games. Sure you can do whatever you want, but certain actions and achievements result in progression and thrilling gameplay loops. Actions that result in nothing changing are disincentivized to help players discover the exciting stuff.
Games need that dopamine ping.
This is a life sim, life is stressful.
In a game like this, we have to pick our battles. 😉
the mf at 8:45 is honestly the type of person whose main trait is that they judge games by graphics
He fails to realise that the pixel grpahics are what makes stardew so accessible. High-quality FPS 60 games have A LOT of data and take a really good computer to run. Stardew Valley, despite having so much content, saves a lot of room and power with it's graphics. It also makes the art style really easy to mimic which is why there's so many amazing mods; you can put all your focus into the programming and make sprites in MS paint :3
also that it just looks good. pixel art is a charming style that gives the game its own unique feeling and charm it just wouldn't have if it was all rendered out in a 3d high definition style
i'm boggled when i see those kinds of reviews. like.... my guy, did you not look at the screenshots?
Relatively new player here but absolutely glued to it.
I think the only legitimate things i have complaints about is how the relationships work.
I feel like based on a mixture of heart events other npcs should be able to grow into a relationship depending on heart event reactivity.
Example: Clint, Penny, and Sam.
If you have penny at, say 6 hearts, itd act as a point where you can encourage her to ask out Sam where she'll then get a new schedule and whatnot.
Or you can discourage her or even ask her out yourself leading into her marriage candidacy. If she remains single you can then do clints heart event.
You can egg him on to confess to penny or tell him he needs to stop, if they get together it becomes a sort of awkward romance thing where they both get new schedules just like with Penny and Sam, or you can tell him to get over her because XYZ.
Then it gets into an entirely new mechanic and that is negative hearts, with negative hearts you get unique heart events that focus predominantly on more mean things.
If marry penny after talking down clint he then removes all his hearts and starts on his negative heart track. However if you marry penny before you get to the necessary heart events for clint he remains neutral as you were allegedly unaware of his admiration of her.
The simple inclusion of negative hearts, and negative heart events would add alot to the gameplay longterm, if you keep talking to everyone everyday but specifically single out Sebastian or something than hed grow some resentment.
It also make the game alot more dynamic which is never not fun.
Realizing you can't marry robin was devastating the first time I played this game
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I love this game. I just do whatever! I just don’t worry about it. :) I’m autistic and I genuinely love using this game to collect, sort, and organize to my heart’s content. And something about it that I love over Animal Crossing is that you can SAVE and walk away, for however long you want lol.
a complaint that i, a person who absolutely loves this game, have that im surprised wasnt talked about here is the fact for a lot of the game you need a wiki or some outside source to find out anything like how are you supposed to know that artifact spots if you hoe it will cause stuff come out? either you will think its a decoration or pickaxe it for a lot of players, and a lot of fish you have no idea when, where or how to get only their names (which especially suck for the community center) and there are some choices you have to make without knowing what they mean like CC vs Joja or more importantly fruit bat vs mushroom cave (i say more importantly as it has a bigger impact the entire game and you dont really know the results before making the choice)
dont get me wrong a wiki can absolutely enhance a game but if its so heavily required that can be annoying for some people especially on consoles that you cant just alt tab to a wiki also there are some things that absolutely should be learned by the player on their own (like gift reactions) but not almost everything
100% agree, at some point i just stopped trying to play while learning on my own because it’s so hard to figure out things on my own. like with the walnuts specifically, there’s just a bunch in incredibly unknown spots that couldn’t be found without a guide or a wiki which is incredibly irritating when trying to achieve perfection.
Watch TV. Personally I've learnt about artifact spots during my first winter thanks to Farmer's chanal. With other things too. Of course you can read Wiki, but also you can go to the Valley's library to read about how you can walk past the goblin and so on. That's a gift to attentive players in a long run.
@@jlmmysteve i mean for walnuts for example that actually makes sense to be hard to figure out as they are puzzles the only dumb one for me was the flute puzzle
livin' off the land and library books for some things. but things like the cave decision i think are supposed to be fun surprises, and add to the replayability. cc vs joja: it HEAVILY implied that cc is the "right" choice.
@@adropintheocean6282 well yeah but like if you dont get every single little living off the land. i know some people (including me) who went years not knowing you could untill soil with a pickaxe
I think a big part of the rush for me is the seasons. Trying to finish the community center as quickly as possible to unlock the island means I have to really crunch to do things like pigs before the end of fall or the fishing bundles. After that though I usually stop stressing so much.
Girl, I've been ignoring Ginger Island for the past two years 😂. It's really funny to compare how people play
for me, when i get bored i just get off for a few hours and come back. Imo, if you get bored just play a different game since theres so many different things you can do in this game lol
I find the game immensely stressful and anxiety inducing because of how short the days are and I am constantly being rushed to make progress and if I forget one thing, I have to double back to the farm, and… Oh, the blacksmith JUST closed, no opening geodes or upgrading equipment for me.
I find I EITHER have to 100% focus on raising stats OR the social life, since trying to mix and match means I can’t even FIND all of the villagers, then I didn’t even cut down any trees, break rocks, etc.
Or if you have a request with a specific NPC, it’s next to impossible to FIND the NPC without using the Wikia, which I was trying my hardest to avoid doing for my first playthrough.
I literally had to restart the day I was on over 100 times because I just WASTED the day trying to do something, and then I had to redo the essentials tasks (petting my dog, watering my crops, harvesting any ready ones, put a couple into storage in case anyone needs them, sell the rest, etc) and quite often it wasn’t until 3pm that I could even LEAVE the farm by which point I physically cannot go to the blacksmith before they close and it’s just SO stressful.
Dude i think the issue here is that you need to just take your time and enjoy the game, it's not meant to be stressful after all. You should just play at your pace instead of trying to maximize everything, it's fine if you do certain things late in the game. The game does not force you to, you can barely have anything done by year 4 and the game would not punish you for it (well unless you count grandpa ghost i guess)
@@nanaminn9256 it's more self-imposed, which isn't super easy to work on (at least for me)
the thought of the time just looming there and then now you're passed out because you weren't paying attention, and it's 2 am (ingame).
And the indecisiveness (another self-imposed issue) doesn't help very much
This tends to be an issue for me with a lot of games, so I usually play multiplayer. Maybe if I played Multiplayer Stardew it'd be a different experience :P
but you dont HAVE to rush everything down to a day, a week, whatever! stardew has no year the story ends- you can play as long as you need to. it could take you a season and a half to get just one upgrade and you wont be late or out of time for anything
@@youbroughtyourdog44 you are CONSTANTLY being rushed and you can’t even do half of the things you want to do.
If it was up to me, I’d take my time in places like the mine and break every single rock at my leisure, but since the days are only about, I think 14 minutes, you NEED to rush if you want to make progress since you need to at least go 5 floors down, otherwise you might as well have not even went down.
Note, I DID beat the game and have the platinum trophy, but on my first playthrough it was SO stressful that I’d stop playing for weeks at a time because it was completely overwhelming and my stress levels were through the roof.
@@MalachiLperI do think the early game would be much less stress-inducing, if it was more constrained by Energy and less constrained by time. Like if the player character could walk 10% faster always, and the days were 2.5 or even just 2 minutes longer. And if Clint and Pierre and maybe Willy too kept their respective shops open just 1 in-game hour longer. When you screw up, find out you’ve walked to a place without bringing the critical item you need, you lose *SO* much time and it feels really bad.
I also think the starting backpack size is too harsh. I think it should start with 14 slots, first upgrade adds 12 more, second adds 10 more, so you still end with 36. Inventory management is frustrating and stressful, and the only way to escape that is to hustle hard for more coin, which is the root source of stress.
The only issue is the fishing but thats a skill issue for ME. So i just use a mod to not get frustrated 😅 the game is still perfect.
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this guy doesnt have the option of making 1k+ a day without food or money cost from day 2
If youre good at fishing it is so busted early game. Catch me making 3-4k on day 4 cause i can catch catfish with fishing lev 3-4. Plus if you get perfect catches you level so goddamn fast
I'm glad I never thought the game was stressful. I was happy that I could do everything as slow as possible and take years to complete stuff. Only some quests have time limit and I can ignore that.
I wish I hadn't bothered to pause and read through that snobs review. Pixel art isn't lazy, it's a perfectly valid art style that many people enjoy.
I can't stand people who treat their preferences like they're these iron clad facts. It's like they're so self-centered they can't even fathom the idea that someone might enjoy something they don't.
I’ve been binging this game like crazy and have been enjoying it way more than i thought i would. however, i do think there are some valid criticisms with the time system and friend system.
i don’t think the time system is a problem in that it exists, i think it’s a problem in that everything else is on a sort of timer. people’s schedules are cool as a concept, but you don’t know said schedules unless you’re actively looking a ton of things up. sure they’re only simple consequences like when Marine and Robin disappear before a time you thought they’d be there. but i feel the limitations are there to add “soul” to these characters, like they’re moving around existing. but it kinda doesn’t convey that since they do the same thing every week, and say the same things all the time. it just feels like an inconvenience when you’re trying to plan your days. speaking of:
the “stress” play style makes sense. people are gonna want to maximize what they can do in a day, or a season, or a year. it really isn’t defeating the purpose of the game when the game gives you the limitation of a timer i think. if the game was truly just meant to be taken slow and at your own pace, the time limitation would be much broader and your character would move faster. but as it stands, your character is very slow without buffs (that you don’t get for a bit) or a horse, which even then isn’t the fastest thing around. the timer’s speed i believe is there to create a tension, same with the 2 am issue.
the fact that a player can’t sacrifice energy and health to stay up late a couple nights is pretty limiting as well. not to mention when you’re punished for it with a money loss too, as if the energy nerf wasn’t enough already. this does make people play around a specifc time frame. even if it’s as simple as missing a seasonal fish that you’ll have to wait another year to attempt, i do wish that there was a bit more control over when you slept to create a dynamic of resource allocating.
idk rant over, overall I do think people who play stardew trying to maximize their time isn’t really a strange concept. if other people take the game very slow, that’s how they feel it’s intended to be played. many others view resource management games like this tho as more of a challenge rather than a cozy game. after all the combat isn’t very… intuitive and the relationship system is very bare bones. so many people instead opt for unlocks and progression as their main form of fun, rather than sitting back and slowly going thru each of the days. that’s my opinion anyway!
I understand the stress part but it's a personality thing, not a flaw in the game. I have thousands of hours in the game and I'm still constantly telling myself that it's okay that I failed a quest, did not plant everything I wanted of day one of the month, or do not have all it takes to upgrade my watering can when it's going to rain the next day. The worst penalty in the game for "failing" at something is having to wait a bit before being able to try again.
Mods are a good way to reduce things some might find stressful, I used the following for that: UIInfosuite2, Automate, CJBCheatsMenu. UIInfosuite2 let me see what I planted and how much time left for them to grow, also how much time for a machine to be done, price of items in inventory (which can now partly be done with a book in 1.6), automate let you automate things like you can put a chest next to a mayonnaise machine and put the eggs in it so the machine automatically process them one after the other. I use CJBCheatMenu to cheat at fishing, i set it for instant catch but not instant bites. I did instant bites at first and one hit kills but found that making the game that less stressful made it less enjoyable for me.
My life changed so much when I stopped speed running
i just really wish it wasnt only saving when we go to sleep, my computer sometimes shuts down so i lose my days progress, in the sims that doesnt happen to me cause i save after every important milestone plus stuff in stardew valley is randomized so if i lose that day the foragables and stuff i get in the mail will be different :(
That part of only saving when sleeping is actually my favorite because if I mess something up like selling/trashing something important I can just close the game and restart. Also works if I wanna choose the unhinged option when talking to villagers just to see what they say >:D
@@Smallkittylove i feel like youd still be able to do that if there was availability to save all the time (when we sleep would still count as saving as well) im not asking for automatic saves i just want the option to save whenever i want to save and not have to start a new day
@@Smallkittylove "oh. you can trash your iridium pan for some reason." *restarts*
@@liallialcrocif you play on mobile (phone or tablet) you can save any time from the pause menu
For the last part, you can reset the day to randomize what you get in the mail. So, say you got a cloth from Emily and your computer crashes, you can just reset however many times it takes to get it again.
No sex Robin 😭😭
Im a new player who plays in coop with a friend.
I do like the game.
For me the worst part is relationships. I don't have any urge to talk or gift presents to most of the npc. I also hate how it seems nobody ever works. Especially adventurers guild. Very annoying. Not going to romance anyone, but candidates kinda suck. They all look and act like kids. All the good ones are not available, I just don't understand why if romance is part of the game.
Another thing is grinding. But i know its optional and our fault we grind so much both being perfectionists. Hope to get to more relaxed gameplay once more things are automated.
Love the mines. Just got to skull cave. Got my ass wiped a few times. Wanna get a revenge lol. Can't wait. Caves are my favorite part, good thing that my friend loves farming
If you don't like the candidates i recommend getting roomates with krobus
@@laterronadizona thank you! Heard about krobus, really like the idea, but me and my friend desided to marry our characters) i know it serves no purpose, but yeah. To my understanding you cant get krobus if you're married, no matter if its with npc or the other player, which is unfortunate. :/
@@maryi685 If you want to be roommates with Krobus while married, I believe there's a mod that lets you do so. Hope that helped!
I think that the relationship system in SV is pretty good, because no one IRL will instantly love you just because you appeared out of nowhere. Having to talk to the NPCs to gain their friendship feels realistic (something funny you can do is talk to the NPCs during the flower dance until their friendship raises enough for you to be able to dance with them... kinda creepy tho), since to become friends with someone you actually have to learn what they like and even give them gifts if you want to show that friendship. That's something that makes me like the game, since I actually have to put effort into making them like me (Sebastian and Elliott feels like the hardest of them all, since they stay locked up inside their house and they don't like anything that's not fancy-).
Time anxiety is a natural thing. For me personally, it's big motivation, like fear. The in-game day being so short reminds me of how in-real-life days are also so short...
But for a while, I kept up with my expectations of my progress. I honestly stopped playing after trying to get to skull caverns floor 100 and just get stopped by time. It felt like the game saying "Ha, too slow!". Kind of killed the magic. Only later did I find out staircases exist 😅.
I saw one negative review that said "this game has so much content it should cost more". I love the sarcastic negative reviews.
Yeah, I always wonder why Hard wood Fence lasts longer than iron fence
very random, but this just gave me an idea for a new challenge run... walking only! (or walking by default and running costs energy)
My problem with this game is the RNG. Oh boy, where do I start.......
It has been a week and I still haven't finished the jojomart bundle. Other than that, finding certain things to complete task and stuff is mad annoying
I wish I could just buy them sometimes because it really be getting on my nerves because it can prevent you from accomplishing things
the problem with "just buying them" is then the game would become even more "rush a good money farm, use it to achieve everything" then it already is.
also, the only 2 items affected by RNG in the missing bundle are dino mayo and the prismatic shard, of which you only need to complete one. And dino eggs arent all that uncommon you should get multiple just from doing skull caverns for other loot. I guess you can get unlucky and not hit any prehistoric floors.
@@leobastian_ you gotta be hecka lucky for a dino egg
If it gets too hard to find the dino egg or etc for the joja bundle
You can enter the ítem code between [number] when you name an animal in game (farm animals) then boom you got it
@@makibliss4675 I don't think it works on switch...
@@makibliss4675 does this actually work?
I really enjoyed this video and im so glad your channel was recommended to me
the only time matter thing is Sam's beach heart event
I put in like 9 hours a day when I first got it and love the game. Only thing I could say is I wish you could do more with your kids and dress characters/gift clothes lol. We all probably wish days were a bit longer so yeah it can be stressful but its still an amazing game. That guy is a hero for doing the world a great service by creating it.
I enjoy Stardew and spent many hours in it but saying there is no time-related stuff in it is not true at all. Requests expire fast, you have to collect stuff for community centre and that stuff is season-limited, and you have to achieve certain heights to not disappoint your grampa after first 3 years or so (I played a lot when SV came out but after that I just start new saves from time to time and chill in them so don't really remember that part with grampa's spirit much as I usually just don't get to it anymore). Businesses close at certain time, you move slowly, days are limited in time, you can really feel it esp in Skull cave where you have limited time to go thru the floors. Personally I didn't feel stressed as I am more of a chill player but can totally see why ppl can be stressed in it. There's so much to do and the game totally does make you feel like you better speed up or else. Tbh I just don't do requests at all to not stress myself and do foraging or fishing lifestyle playthroughs, creating new save files for freshness. Planting a huge potato field for max profits just feels like a nightmare to me (that's what my bf did early game when we both just got it years ago. He was all focused on money money money and got burnt out quickly while I continued playing)
I can at times feel stressed and overwhelmed by the game even though I love it. It's probably my second favorite game of all time (right under Deltarune). But the reason I think people become stressed by it is not by anything that the game does or because they're greedy. Instead it's because of the importance our society places on money and the human desire to lead a fulfilling life. You might wonder what that has to do with a videogame, but I think that because these two things run so deep (you need money to live and be comfortable, you have limited time before you die) without even thinking about it consciously they roll over into the simulated life.
Actually true, fuck wooden fences. ALWAYS BREAKING.
Do the stone and iron ones break as well? Ik wood does so I switched over to hardwood eventually since it doesn't, but I really like the look of the stone and iron ones. I would love to use them if I don't have to fix them practically every week
Stardew actually stresses me out because of the time factor xD Like... I wanna do so much each day and get stressed if I can't finish something - but I guess that's also related to me being neurodivergend (OCD) and having anxiety about that kind of stuff. But I think I'll just download some mod to keep everybodys hearts at 10 so I'm not stressing about talking to everyone on a regular basis anymore. I think that will help because I know that the game itself should be calming
In regards to time management, you can also just install a mod that makes days longer. I did that just to make the game even more chill. I will say that it completely breaks the balance of the game, but whatever.
I know someone who doesn't like the game. She told me it's too repetitive for her, even with the newest update.
I used to be able to play casually and all that, but now I *know* I can get to the desert around spring 22-ish, so I feel slow if I don’t! And I also HAVE to catch the Legend in year 1… stupid brain, I don’t actually have to do either of those things 😣
9:03 wooden fence 😭🙏
I’m just gonna say the ability to be gay made me happy since I can date everyone
Currently on my third sqve trying to get 10 hearts for Harvey. On my quest to marry and get the 10 heart event for EVERYONE
What mods do you use?
I tried modding mine but I went overboard and now I can jump over water and there is 2 new valleys and over 50 new npcs😅
i bought my first gaming pc as a gift to myself for an academic achievement. it was a bad idea b/c whenever i played any game i felt like i had to achieve something to make it worth the time i was spending away from school.... i'm a nerd, i know... that only lead to ~1000 in stardew lmao because i would always hyperfocus on min/maxing. took me so long to let go of that mindset...
Im also type to stress out but in later game like 3rd yeard plus. At some point put pressure on myself the longer i play and end up burning out on the save so im making new saves every so often. I just like early stardew way more yet still have 600 hours in game and having a blast till this day! Also the longer i could make my save was 6 years, there is also that i feel like after few years there is just nothing to do exept upgrade your farm, village is dead and you have no more reason to really go there which sucks and that's why i preffer early game so much.
8:43 man went ona whole tangent because of pixel graphics xd...bruh better graphics doesnt mean better gameplay all the time
U didnt mention one thing. The community center is kind of timed cause of certain crops only growing in certain seasons
But you can get them the next time that season rolls around, there is no reason to get it done the first year, or the year after, the opportunity always comes back
Me and my friend created a co-op farm after 1.6 and after 2 weeks we are unable to get in! Every time I am hit with ‘connection failed’ and I’ve tried pretty much everything! Does anyone have any advice?? I love our farm and we also cannot join any new ones we create either :(
For real: I have autism and borderline. I don't think this is a game for me (stress, "have-to-do" etc) Yes, I know it, just chill and play but...therre's knowing and feeling. At the same time I'm living-loving-laughing and playing the sh#t out of Needy Streamer Overload and Doom🤣. And I love visual novels like Chaoshead;Noah. Visuals novels are my go-to games, now I think about it.
Contrary to what many many negative reviewers claim, there is indeed sex in this game. It's just not graphically laid out porn-style for us to witness.
For players who like that kind of content and the general idea of the game's mechanics, there are several mods that introduce it into the game.
When I am stressed I play Stardew still I get stressed even tho I don't have to 😂 also
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I married Sam a week after Kent returned on the first day of Year 2. I speedrun that shit so fast! I wanted my husband 😂❤
Might stupid but very annoying is when I "accidentally" raise the affection of townspeople the the next day I got shoved by countless consecutive cutscenes and it really breaks the immersion, especially if they're contradict to each others.
But the game is generally stressful. No way this is chill game. You can try to be chill, but that's not how the game designed to be. Each day is only consisted of 15 minutes, item prices are quite expensive and hard to get materials, missable interaction and dialogues, on top of that Granpa visits literally after 2 years which basically to 'inspect' your progress.
It can be solved by gatekeeping contents. For example year one is only able to do A, year two you can now do B, etc so there's no sense of urgency and rushing everything in 2 years just so you can chill afterwards (you won't). Limit cutscene shown in the game to 2 per days. So player always looking forward to move to next day. Also to keep consistency.
Delay Granpa visit to only when you summon is also a must if you want the game to be chill. Regardless of what granpa said to you on his visit, it's still quite stressful experience because those mechanics imply you will be judged based on your achievements for the past 2 years.
Why are you stressing over what Grandpa says? Take your time, it doesn't matter. And if you're worried about trying to do everything in 2 years... Well, you can't unless you are speedrunning on purpose.
@@Blueninja-xt4ci When you participate in a competition: you can just enjoy the flow, make a new friends, seek new experience. Hell, if you're lucky, people around you even support you to do that. Totally zero pressure environment. But still... In every competition there always be a winning side and losing side. Each still always have its own meaning. You can still be happy even if you're losing, but you will still feel inferior to the winning side. That's how the competition is designed.
Why do I'm stressing over what Granpa says? Because that's what the game intended. As I said, you can be as chill as you want. The game facilitate you, even if you do nothing, Granpa still emphasized that what matters the most is your happiness. But deep down, you know that's not what it meant to be. You will still get better response if you make Grandpa proud. You even get statue of perfection as prove of your hardwork.
@@definitelyhuman4510 totally agree. Stardew Valley is so wildly successful because there is both a ton of freedom and a constant, addictive force pushing you to want more than you have (until late-game). The struggle against the clock is exciting, and sometimes exhausting. Annoys me when people say I'm playing the game wrong by min-maxing. I'm doing what the game is implicitly telling me to do. If it makes you feel inadequate, then I'm sorry that sucks, but it's your problem not mine.
and the game only being played by 200,000 players ON STEAM and if you think about it there is EVEN MORE people playing on the xbox edition (me :D)
Stardew is a great game, but it certainly has downsides. For the first year, it's the least chill of all the chill farming games. You gotta power level your fishing skill high to get that octopus, that only spawns on rainy summer nights, and there are some years where that might never even happen, and you probably don't even know you have to do this unless you have already beaten the main game before. Your just gonna have to use the wiki, or your going to waste TONS of time, like potentially years, because so much content is time locked to a certain time of year.
who is that hot NPC in the red dress at 3:42 ??? was that a matrix reference??
that's olivia, an npc added by the "stardew valley expanded" mod. no idea if she's a matrix reference in any way, but the mod does let you marry her if she's your type!
I get why a lot of people are bored- a lot of people get powerful PCs so they can play very intense, high graphic games, so farming games might not be their thing.
Alot of people play for the dopamine ping.
This is more stressful serotonin at times.
Honstly runed factory and story of season are way better and origional can't stand this clone and honstly don't understand how he got away with this much plagirism I mean for real are there ANYTHING origional about this game.
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The greatest game i ever played
Yeah but you're playing SVE, so your judgement is already suspect
Seems like people who complain about "a lack of incentive" really mean "the lack of clearly defined long-term quests" or goals. Most games have those and it is kinda weird to not have that. It's not a bad thing but I can see why for some people it would be an issue. Subjective but valid.
Personally, that and time management is what made Stardew very stressful for me the first 2 times I tried to play it. I felt lost and rushed at first and gave it up for like 3 years till I watched some beginner guides on YT and understood the game better. Now I love it but I needed some help at first and I had to wrap my head around the "no long-term goals" idea without it being scary to me.
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"there is 0 time-gated content in stardew valley"
Almost. there is exactly ONE quest, that has a narrow 1 hour window, that you get through the mail. Jodi asks you to bring her a largemouth bass for dinner, at 7pm in game (can be after). The problem is unless you have the keys to the town (late/end game item from mr qi), her house closes at 8pm
not technically fully time gated since you CAN do this on any day, but it can be a huge PIA if you keep missing that 1 hour time-frame like i did for at least a year, with a largemouth bass in my pocket
there are a handful of things like this, like festivals can have certain windows to enter the map or else you miss it, but to be fair this is just me nitpicking the direct meaning of a sentence lol
mostly i felt the need to point it out bc this dumb quest is one of the most annoying ones IMO and is *technically* time-gated per day
Best game ever
Speaking of pixel my first game was Pong. So, for me, I DESPISE low pixel games and could never see a reason why anyone would have even a minimal desire to go back so many years in graphical advancement.
Then I saw Project Zomboid-oh ya, I also now despise top down games. The first time I saw a PZ vid I couldn't believe peep would play something so low end looking then I saw another vid then bought the game and it's now one of my fav's.
Not too long after I saw some streamers playing SV and about an hr in I knew I wanted it but it was still pretty pricey.
I waited for a hefty sale and finally grabbed it and am VERY glad I did. I'm having some issues with my system now that I'm pretty sure is related to microsoft/updates or wutev but there's some games I just can't play. SV I CAN play and it's so much fun but can be a little overwhelming if you intend to get every single aspect of the game done as fast as possible.....at least for me.
The negative reviews prove that some people use all their IQ for breathing and blinking.
I am currently playing this game for my first time and am about to hit year 3... I have not had a very pleasant experience. I am not a fan of games taking tutorials and hiding them from you. Why in the world is there a library that you have to unlock the books in when the books explain core gameplay mechanics. That is called Artificial Difficulty, and that doesn't make your game more challenging. I feel like the game hates my guts every time I play it. It just feels like that game just wants to play by itself and doesn't want to have to share its toys with you. And the entire Winter Season is the biggest noob trap of them all. I hope you looked up a guide or have at least a few playthroughs under your belt. Because if you didn't then you won't make any money and all of your animals will die. This game is so stressful for all the wrong reasons. I'm still having the hardest time understanding why this game has so many defenders for it. I can see how it would be fun if you could turn your brain off and just goof around, but at that point, why are you even playing Video Games?
The game isn't stressful at all unless you start trying some of the endgame challenges.
Stardew Valley is actually a good way to teach children planning and time management.
Clearly this negative reviews haven't played any Harvest moon like games
A lot of complaints are just the way the game is, completely tolerable when treating it as a game.
I have the Jas marriage mod.
So..... A single player game makes you complain about its multiplayer functions. Okay Karen 🤠