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Stardew is the opposite of relaxing for me. It’s a never ending to-do list and sense that you don’t have enough time. It’s “Chores: The video game”
by parpfish 2y ago
Stardew is the opposite of relaxing for me. It’s a never ending to-do list and sense that you don’t have enough time. It’s “Chores: The video game”
- thatswrong0 2y agoYeah I feel that. It was fun for me, but also kind of stressful. I don't know why I felt the need to min-max it but yeah.
- seventhtiger 2y agoThe time of day running out, the stamina, and the seasons calendar for crops add so much pressure to me. I simply cannot relax playing Stardew Valley. As opposed to something like Animal Crossing with very few limitations where I can really enjoy myself.
- moomin 2y agoYeah, that’s me with SV. Horrible optimisation problem, so much to fit into every day. And then there’s the damn fish calendar…
- card_zero 2y agoI see it as a game about getting a horse.
- kgen 2y agoWhen I started stardew I didn't know how to play so I would spend days waking up walking around and then go back to sleep repeating until my parsnips grew, but when I introduced my SO to the game, we ended up trying to learn how to actually play and then ended up with spreadsheets to track all the seasons, grow cycles, relationships and whatever else lol
- taurath 2y agoIts also chores that have an end, that you can have mastery over, that makes for only a small amount of variation compared to all of life. Then you also know that you don't need to do things as fast as possible, you can always let things chill. Sometimes you can use it to practice not caring about everything - like "this run, I don't fish until year 2 - just farming for me."
- YurgenJurgensen 2y ago‘Chore simulator’ could describe maybe 50% of what gets put on Steam these days. Some people just can’t get enough of drudgery, I guess.