Who knew a farming and life simulator may very well be this standard? In fact, in case you’ve ever performed Stardew Valley the reply to that query is clear. It’s so participating and enjoyable to play and rammed stuffed with stuff to do this it’s straightforward to overlook the sport is made by only one man: Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone.
Mr. ConcernedApe has up to date the official Stardew Valley web site with some new gross sales figures, and they’re spectacular: the sport has managed to promote over 41 million copies.
Mr. Ape breaks the info down somewhat for us, saying that 24 million gross sales have been on PC, and seven.9 on the Nintendo Swap. Sadly, he doesn’t point out different platforms, so all we all know is that roughly 9 million gross sales have occurred on PlayStation, Xbox and cellular.
What’s actually loopy is that in February of 2024, Mr. Involved instructed us that Stardew Valley had hit 30 million gross sales, so between then and now one other 11 million copies of the sport have been offered. A part of that success was in all probability the huge 1.6 replace that occurred in March. Earlier than that, the sport sometimes had wherever from 10,000-50,000 concurrent gamers per day, which is already fairly spectacular. Following the replace, although, the sport broke its personal information, hitting a peak concurrent player count of 236,614. Since then, Stardew Valley has persistently been getting over 100,000 concurrent gamers per day.
It additionally helps that the 1.6 replace, like all different updates for the sport, was utterly free. Mr. SlightlyWorriedSimian stays steadfast in his refusal to cost for DLC or updates, even swearing it on his household honour.
He’s at the moment engaged on a brand new sport titled Haunted Chocolatier, however in April of 2023 he introduced he was taking a break from it to work on Stardew Valley some extra.
