Who knew a farming and life simulator may very well be this widespread? After all, in case you’ve ever performed Stardew Valley the reply to that query is clear. It’s so partaking and enjoyable to play and rammed stuffed with stuff to try this it’s straightforward to neglect 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 information down a bit of 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 cell.
What’s actually loopy is that in February of 2024, Mr. Involved informed 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 most likely the large 1.6 replace that occurred in March. Earlier than that, the sport sometimes had anyplace from 10,000-50,000 concurrent gamers per day, which is already fairly spectacular. Following the replace, although, the sport broke its personal data, hitting a peak concurrent participant depend 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 presently engaged on a brand new recreation titled Haunted Chocolatier, however in April of 2023 he introduced he was taking a break from it to work on Stardew Valley some extra.
