Stardew Valley Gross sales Have Now Handed the 40m Mark Avid gamers Enviornment

Smash hit indie farming sim Stardew Valley is one way or the other persevering with its meteoric ascent even if it is virtually 9 years previous, not less than if its newest gross sales figures are something to go by.

Over on the official Stardew Valley website’s press portal, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone says that the sport has managed to shift a staggering 41 million copies “as of December 2024”.

Based on Barone, greater than 26 million of these copies have been bought on PC alone, whereas 7.9 million copies have been bought on the Nintendo Change. The sport’s success being primarily PC-based makes loads of sense on condition that that is the primary platform on which it was launched.

It did not take Stardew Valley very lengthy to start its journey to success. Simply a few months after the sport’s preliminary launch, it had crossed 1,000,000 gross sales, hitting 3.5 million gamers on Steam alone in January 2018.

Even on cellular platforms, the place free-to-play video games reign supreme and upfront paid merchandise usually battle, Stardew Valley managed to rake in $1 million in gross sales on iOS inside just some weeks of its launch on the app retailer.

It is clear that Stardew Valley has struck a chord to a fair higher diploma than different cozy farming sims; it arguably spearheaded the present wave of such video games, particularly within the indie sphere, so its success makes loads of sense via that lens.

The sport, which is closely impressed by the Story of Seasons (previously Harvest Moon) franchise, even attracted reward from that franchise’s creator Yasuhiro Wada, who mentioned Stardew “carries on the legacy of the unique Harvest Moon very effectively”.

As for what Barone is engaged on subsequent, he is at the moment growing a brand new cozy life sim-style recreation by the identify of Haunted Chocolatier.

The sport’s growth is progressing slowly, largely as a result of Barone continues to be engaged on Stardew Valley, which he describes as a “huge and in style recreation” to which he has “loads of attachment”.

He additionally says that Haunted Chocolatier will “nonetheless take some time”, however that following the Stardew Valley 1.6 launch on all platforms, he “want to end Haunted Chocolatier subsequent“.

This is hoping that occurs sooner relatively than later. Till then, Stardew Valley is offered proper now on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Change, and cellular platforms.