Stardew Valley
Mon, Jan. 6th, 2020 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scvdderEasily one of the best Christmas presents I got this year was a steam gift card which I cashed in for Stardew Valley! It's a farm simulator and role-play game and it's the cutest. I've wanted it for ages (and have a number of friends who have been urging me to experiment with video games a bit more) but generally video games are Quite expensive and typically all my funds get channeled into buying books and wine. But I'm very glad to have Stardew Valley!
It is incredibly wholesome and playing it is so relaxing, it's escapism in its purest form. Really the only thing I have to compare it to is Minecraft, a game which has served me very well over the years. And although obviously it doesn't have an equivalent to Creative Mode where I can just mess around in sandbox mode to build cool things (I even went through a phase of loading up Sims 3 to play as an architect and build houses); but I really really love the rpg aspect of this. I've never played a real rpg but I've got some decent recommendations for some, so I might get into them later. And I've heard that playing Minecraft is like gardening for some people, I find this even moreso because it never falls into the rut of feeling aimless, like Minecraft can. Maybe that's because I'm just so hell-bent on seducing Elliott.
The interior of my cottage! (Sparse I know but furniture is so expensive.)
My farm as of late Summer, Year One. I'm saving up to make the fenced-off section next to my cottage an orchard.
It is incredibly wholesome and playing it is so relaxing, it's escapism in its purest form. Really the only thing I have to compare it to is Minecraft, a game which has served me very well over the years. And although obviously it doesn't have an equivalent to Creative Mode where I can just mess around in sandbox mode to build cool things (I even went through a phase of loading up Sims 3 to play as an architect and build houses); but I really really love the rpg aspect of this. I've never played a real rpg but I've got some decent recommendations for some, so I might get into them later. And I've heard that playing Minecraft is like gardening for some people, I find this even moreso because it never falls into the rut of feeling aimless, like Minecraft can. Maybe that's because I'm just so hell-bent on seducing Elliott.
The interior of my cottage! (Sparse I know but furniture is so expensive.)
My farm as of late Summer, Year One. I'm saving up to make the fenced-off section next to my cottage an orchard.