Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game
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jesus did i go back in time???
No, my child. You are where you belong.
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No, my child. You are where you belong.
As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.
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It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a "classic", but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
That makes me feel old and I wasn't even around for HL1. How's your back feeling, millennials?
Doing fine. Sit up straight, do some light exercises, stretch, youll feel fine
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It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a "classic", but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
That makes me feel old and I wasn't even around for HL1. How's your back feeling, millennials?
Shit, you're correct. It's hard to believe. It feels like my first play of Portal 2 was just a couple years ago. It has been fourteen years...
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Published: Jul 08, 2025, 22:37
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It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a "classic", but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
That makes me feel old and I wasn't even around for HL1. How's your back feeling, millennials?
You didn't have to be such a jerk about the back pain tho.
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As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.
XD yeah no I meant just ironic edgy blasphemy
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And I'd say that it is 100% deserved. Stardew Valley is a once in a lifetime kind of game and has one of the best developers you could ask for. Free new content and updates for 10 years and it's still like $20 and frequently on sale. The developer actually tweeted out once that if he ever charged for new content that he'd want everyone to publicly shame him.
“I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.”
Stardew Valley is the gaming industry at its best and one of the best indie games out there.
Meh, I prefer Terraria.
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Portal is such a great series. I hope we get a new one one day.
If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It's the only game I've found that scratches the similar itch
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It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a "classic", but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
That makes me feel old and I wasn't even around for HL1. How's your back feeling, millennials?
I was 22 when Half-Life came out. I'm tired.
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Portal is such a great series. I hope we get a new one one day.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I had to settle for Lego Dimensions. Better than nothing. And GLaDOS arguing with HAL 9000 was pretty epic.
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If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It's the only game I've found that scratches the similar itch
For the puzzle part, sure, but not the humor. I like The Stanley Parable for that aspect.
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Not that it should be expected to dish out free content and never charge for DLC. Not every game has the kind of profit margin Stardew Valley has.
Considering how much time he spent developing it, I doubt the profit margin is actually all that good.
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It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a "classic", but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
That makes me feel old and I wasn't even around for HL1. How's your back feeling, millennials?
How's your back feeling, millennials?
Wearing good shoes and keeping my weight down and staying active so it feels fine.
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I had to settle for Lego Dimensions. Better than nothing. And GLaDOS arguing with HAL 9000 was pretty epic.
Both Portal levels and both Doctor Who levels were great.
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If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It's the only game I've found that scratches the similar itch
In a similar vein to Superluminal, I'd also recommend Viewfinder, it's kinda like Portal but with a camera rather than a Portal gun.
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But at the same time there are plenty of indie devs that sell games for $30 and then have a few $15 DLC on top of that after a few years. Not throwing shade at those other devs, more just saying that the dev for Stardew Valley could have sold DLC and nobody would have questioned it but chose not to. You could be like Stardew Valley and keep the game cheap, free updates, and frequent sales or you could be like Factorio and refuse to ever put your game on sale and up the price every couple of years and come out with a $20 DLC. And I'd be shocked if Stardew Valley has made less money than Factorio in the long run, especially with it being the in number one place right now.
And yet those small studios are one flop away from bankruptcy. Stardew Valley is a one in a million success story and should not pose as a benchmark. Barone decided to continue as a more or less single dev, but you can‘t blame talented young designers to expand their team to realize more ambitious projects and sacrifice economic safety for that simply because they now employ people. Barone can do updates ten years later and postpone Haunted Chocolatier for that, you can‘t do that if multiple people depend on their salary.
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Considering how much time he spent developing it, I doubt the profit margin is actually all that good.
Good enough to not release a new game in ten years, what small scale studio can say that.
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Idk Stardew Valley is a passion project if I've ever seen one. Sure, concernedape is making extraordinary profits, but it has to feel way better to have a decent size of the planet's population playing and connecting with the project they poured their heart and soul into.
It‘s a passion project alright, but we won‘t see many games if only those are getting done.
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If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It's the only game I've found that scratches the similar itch
I'd also recommend The Talos Principle and The Turing Test for similar itch scratches.
