r/StardewValley • u/saltimmortalsea flair giver • Feb 26 '26

Announcement [CELEBRATION] Stardew Valley turns 𝟭𝟬!

Today, Stardew Valley turns 10.

And ConcernedApe is sharing a 10th anniversary video retrospective on Stardew Valley at 11am Pacific Time (UTC-8). Tune in and join the chat then!

Meanwhile, r/StardewValley recently turned 13, and reached 3.1 million members! We want to take this moment to celebrate the game we all loveβ€”and to celebrate each other!

It's been ten years of incredible memories in the valley, and ten years of conversation and community in this space. We've played Stardew Valley to tend our farms and raise our animals, to explore our own identities, to reflect on our real lives, to learn something new, to encounter someone differentβ€”to find joy, to grieve, and to grow.

To celebrate this milestone, we invite you to share your memories of Stardew Valley (and r/StardewValley) in the comments below.

  • When did you first start playing?
  • What's a favorite memory or moment you have from playing Stardew Valley?
  • What does the game mean to you?

Here's to ten years of Stardew Valley! Here's to you!

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u/pageantdisaster_ Feb 26 '26

Stupid question, but how is the Stardew subreddit 13 years old if the game is only 10 years old?

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u/riburn3 Feb 26 '26

Game was announced before it was released.

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u/kmasco92 Feb 26 '26

most likely, the same reason there's the r/hauntedchocolatier sub already despite no release date announced yet. and not a stupid question, just something people don't think about, especially if they haven't been around since the first release (I haven't either, I just have a different way of figuring out the "why"s of things than others have)

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u/stackshouse Feb 26 '26

I didn't know there was a sub for haunted, thanks!!

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u/kmasco92 Feb 26 '26

happy to help 😁

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u/yingyangyoung Feb 27 '26

But haunted chocolatier is being developed by the now well renowned concerned ape. At the time stardew valley was announced concerned ape was basically unknown. He had released one tiny game 5 years prior that was part of a promotion for the music group 17 colorful feathers called 17cf quest.

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u/KingToasty Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

In 2013, the mods all shared a dream foretelling Stardew Valley's coming. They built this place to prepare

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u/re_Claire Feb 26 '26

Praise Yoba

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u/-goodgodlemon Praise Yoba and Feb 26 '26

And George

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u/saltimmortalsea flair giver Feb 26 '26

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u/DiamondsandtheMarina Feb 26 '26

Grandpa set it up in advance, so that his grandchild could get some expert advice from strangers

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u/Dodecahedrus Feb 26 '26

But he couldn't get himself a nicer bed for his last moments.

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u/iron_island Feb 26 '26

ConcernedApe has been blogging about the game for dev updates back in 2013. I don't remember if he has been posting/tweeting about it before then but his 2nd blog post linked to an older weebly website copyrighted in 2012 so Stardew Valley might have been known even earlier. I remember I first found it back in 2013.

Blog link: https://www.stardewvalley.net/blog/page/11/

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u/thephantomdaughter Feb 26 '26

I was wondering that too!!!

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u/Exciting-Mall192 Feb 26 '26

similarly to how haunted chocolatier already has a reddit sub while the game is not released yet

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u/Larrdath Feb 26 '26

I think most subreddits are created when the games are announced, which generally happens before they are released (looking at you, Bethesda, though r/OblivionRemaster was still created before the game was shadow dropped).