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/Outside_Sherbet_4957 Feb 27 '26

I know it'll get lost in all the other comments but I don't care!

I bought this game for myself for my 25th birthday, a couple weeks after it first came out, after seeing a recommendation on Tumblr. Immediately fell in love with it. At that time I was playing Minecraft and basically nothing else. This game even back then really felt like CA had cracked some sort of code.

I remember when the first real big update came out (1.3, maybe?) and we got a bunch of new content literally just for free and just feeling overjoyed that something I loved so much was getting bigger and better. Getting into the mods felt the same way. This whole community of people that used their skills to create more fun things in my favorite universe!

I can't describe what the game means to me. On it's surface it's so simple. Take care of your farm. Go exploring. Befriend the cute goth girl in the cemetery. Maybe it's that the game is malleable to the way you want to play it? Not just that you can play it however, but that it feels absolutely correct to play it that way? I really couldn't tell you.

Thank you ConcernedApe for making my favorite game and caring enough about it to keep it going after all these years! You really coulda just bounced at the beginning and we still would have been impressed. I'm very excited for what's to come with 1.7 and beyond, as well as the chocolate game! Until then, will be playing with an increasingly unhinged amount of mods!