Yes, worth buying.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $8.99.
- Story and characters: 78 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 51 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 25 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 1.0M player reviews · updated 2 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
I’ve played over 100+ hours, and even after all that time, I still haven’t fully completed the story — and that’s the magic of Stardew Valley.
Cute visual, great atmosphere and soundtrack, fun character, simple but effective and varied gameplay and well optimise on pc.
As for the visuals - I get the nostalgic appeal of the retro pixel art.
The soundtrack is amazing though.
66.8 hours later playing multiplayer only with her and I was understanding the fun but not to her level.
Great in single player and Co-op with even a pretty damm good moding comunity.
+1 more the community rallied around
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $8.99.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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