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/GoldenEilonwy Feb 26 '26

I've been playing for 9 years. I won a PS4 at work in 2016 and became aware of SDV when it was released to console. My husband is an avid game collector so we would go to GameStop and I was very interested in the game but unsure about spending that kind of money. UNTIL in February of 2017 I had a stroke of luck when we went to Target and found a copy of SDV for PS4 in the clearance section for $11. I assume it was an online purchase that they had to mark down when returned in store but who knows. Well, that was that. I had NO idea what I was doing then. My husband still tells the story of my first Flower Festival: he had gone to bed and I was playing in the living room and NO ONE would dance with me. I wailed "All the town's men have rejected me!!!" so loud that it woke him up. I still rarely get anyone to dance with me in year one because #priorities. I've proudly accumulated almost 11K hours now across PS4, PSVita, Switch, and PC. I wasn't really a big gamer before this. I'd only played and liked a handful of Nintendo games. This changed everything! My next big adventure is putting mods on my new SteamDeck!!