As a long time skeptic of whether or not I would like this game, I am pleasantly surprised. It took about an hour of playing before it 'clicked' for me in game.

Stardew Valley is very relaxing in a way most other games I play are not. There is very little expected of me as the player. You can take on as much or little as you'd like, mostly in the form of tasks/quests posted to the community bulletin board. It seems like, at least early on, you can kind of ignore certain aspects of the game if you don't want to do them (ie. if you hate fishing, you don't *need* to do it to have a successful farm, or to explore the mines).

If I had 1-2 gripes early on, its that the music feels a bit repetitive, and there isn't enough time on an in-game day to do everything I want to do... which probably lends itself to being a compliment about how much you *can* do in a day in this game.

As a long time skeptic of whether or not I would like this game, I am pleasantly surprised. It took about an hour of playing before it 'clicked' for me in game. Stardew Valley is very relaxing in a way most other games I play are not. There is very little expected of me as the player. You can take on as much or little as you'd like, mostly in the form of tasks/quests posted to the community bulletin board. It seems like, at least early on, you can kind of ignore certain aspects of the game if you don't want to do them (ie. if you hate fishing, you don't *need* to do it to have a successful farm, or to explore the mines). If I had 1-2 gripes early on, its that the music feels a bit repetitive, and there isn't enough time on an in-game day to do everything I want to do... which probably lends itself to being a compliment about how much you *can* do in a day in this game.