Stardew Valley
2016 video game
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| 2024 | Game Rant recognized Stardew Valley as one of the greatest entries in the farming simulation genre, noting its role in reviving the indie game scene and inspiring new farming simulator titles. |
| 2024 | Received Best Ongoing Game award from PC Gamer. |
| 2024 | Featured as one of the Games of the Year by Gamesindustry.biz. |
| 2024 | The 2-year-long construction of the Stardew Valley town out of Lego won the 'People's Choice' award at BrickCon 2024. |
| 2024 | Stardew Valley was nominated for The Steam Awards in the Labor of Love category, highlighting the game's continued popularity and ongoing community support. |
| December 2024 | Stardew Valley reached over 41 million copies sold, with 26 million on PC and 7.9 million on Nintendo Switch. |
| November 2024 | Barone published a significant update expanding the game's initial features, released across PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation, and Xbox platforms. |
| November 20 2024 | ConcernedApe announced the second Stardew Valley concert tour, 'Stardew Valley: Symphony of Seasons'. |
| October 2024 | 'Friends of Jimbo 2' update for the Balatro video game featured some Stardew Valley characters. |
| October 2024 | American singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy released a song called 'Abigail', referencing the Stardew Valley character. |
| May 14 2024 | The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook was released, featuring adaptations of over 50 in-game recipes. |
| October 10 2023 | ConcernedApe promoted the first Stardew Valley concert tour, 'Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons'. |
| August 2023 | The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook was announced. |
| 2022 | Destructoid attributed a large part of the resurgence of farming simulators to Stardew Valley, describing the game as a 'full-on cultural phenomenon'. |
| March 2022 | Barone regained publishing rights for the Android release, ending Chucklefish's involvement. |
| 2021 | Barone migrates the game's programming from Microsoft XNA framework to MonoGame to futureproof the game and allow mods to access more than 4 gigs of RAM. |
| December 2021 | Barone regained publishing rights for the iOS release. |
| May 2021 | The 'Prescription for Sleep: Stardew Valley' album was released, featuring remixes of game soundtracks with piano and saxophone. |
| February 2021 | Stardew Valley: The Board Game was released. |
| February 2021 | Barone regained rights to the official Stardew Valley wiki. |
| 2020 | ConcernedApe collaborated with Fangamer to announce the physical release of the game's standard and collector's edition, as well as the Switch and PC versions. |
| August 15 2020 | The orchestral album 'Symphonic Tale: The Place I Truly Belong (Music from Stardew Valley)' was released, directed by Kentaro Sato and performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. |
| December 2019 | Stardew Valley was added to the Tesla Arcade video game service. |
| October 2019 | Barone regained publishing rights for the Nintendo Switch release. |
| March 14 2019 | Android version of Stardew Valley was released, with cross-platform progress transfer capabilities. |
| 2018 | An official sheet music book for piano and album was released by Materia Collective. |
| December 2018 | Publishing rights for all platforms outside of Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch reverted to Eric Barone. |
| December 2018 | Multiplayer update was released for the Nintendo Switch. |
| October 24 2018 | iOS version of Stardew Valley was released, developed with help from The Secret Police. |
| August 1 2018 | Multiplayer feature officially launched for all PC platforms. |
| May 22 2018 | PlayStation Vita port of Stardew Valley was released. |
| April 2018 | Multiplayer beta was released for Windows, allowing players to collaborate on a shared farm. |
| 2017 | By the end of the year, Stardew Valley had sold more than 3.5 million copies across all platforms. |
| October 2017 | Released on Nintendo Switch in October, becoming the most downloaded game on the platform for 2017. |
| October 5 2017 | Nintendo Switch version of Stardew Valley, ported by Sickhead Games, was released. |
| September 2017 | Jason Schreier included Stardew Valley's development story in his book 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels'. |
| January 2017 | Barone expressed interest in a potential PlayStation Vita port. |
| 2016 | Nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival. |
| 2016 | Nominated for Best Game at the 13th British Academy Games Awards. |
| 2016 | Nominated for Most Promising New Intellectual Property at SXSW Gaming Awards. |
| 2016 | Ranked in year-end lists by multiple publications: 5th by The Guardian, 8th by Paste and Polygon, and 25th by Slant Magazine. |
| 2016 | Awarded Best Simulation Game by Game Informer. |
| 2016 | Won the Breakthrough Award at the Golden Joystick Awards, receiving two additional nominations. |
| 2016 | Received nominations for Best Debut at the Game Developers Choice Awards and Best Independent Game at The Game Awards. |
| 2016 | Stardew Valley sold over 400,000 copies across Steam and GOG.com in two weeks, and more than a million within two months. The game was among the top 24 revenue-generating games on Steam during this year. |
| December 14 2016 | Xbox One version of Stardew Valley was released. |
| December 13 2016 | PlayStation 4 version of Stardew Valley was released. |
| November 2016 | The Stardew Valley Guidebook was released, written by Eric Barone and Ryan Novak, and illustrated by Kari Fry. |
| September 2016 | The official Stardew Valley soundtrack was released. |
| July 29 2016 | Linux and macOS ports of Stardew Valley were released. |
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