Here's A New Glimpse Of Stardew Valley's New "Really Fun" Multiplayer Mode

why the quotation marks around really fun?

@Mijzelffan Because it is a litteral quote from ConcernedApe

I bet it's fun in local LAN.

That being said I don't think there's any game that's not fun in local LAN.

Hell even getting two consoles in a room and playing "against online" is better

Looks cool! Multiplayer RPGs are always welcome.

This game is crying for a split-screen mode.

Help! I've been sucked into Stardew Valley on my Switch - can I have my life back please... at least send some mates in to pull me out.

Do the characters all sleep in the same bed?

@Prizm
The invited characters have own cabins on the farm. End of day is defined by the owner of the farm.

Will it support couch co op?

I hope they also fix the small errors, for example the impossibility of add museum items in the lower counter. This prevents me of finishing the museum quest with all artefacts...

@Rhaoulos it makes the article sound cynical

Split screen?

@setezerocinco I’ve found that if you just cancel out of the inventory screen when making donations, then immediately try again the game sometimes lets you put stuff on the bottom tables and in the corners. It’s still a pain though, and also seems to be less buggy if you do it in docked mode. Hope that helps you out.

Always nice to get continued support and updates for a game. I love Stardew Valley. It currently sits at over 120 hours played, absolutely crushing everything else on my Switch (I played BOTW on my WiiU). Not a big fan of multiplayer though. I’d rather see something be done that makes children useful, or makes milking my cows less of a pain. (Or makes my children milk the cows, BOOM!).

@Mijzelffan I think that your comments reflect more on how you interpret headlines than how the headline itself sounds

Thanks for the tip @Bobgoblin , I will try that later at home.

@Bobgoblin "Or makes my children milk the cows..." we need that right now!

no ones mentioning the big question. Can we play online????? Local only kills it for me as my friends and I all have this but we live in very different places.

@setezerocinco I found the museum bug to be quite annoying as well but I also found quite early on that you can move the camera first, then cancel and choose the item again.

@Mijzelffan "why the quotation marks around really fun?"

Nintendolife can't comment on it being "really fun" because they have not played the multiplayer version, yet they can quote what the developer has stated.

This is what quotes are actually for, to show that something is quoted verbatim from another source. I find it amusing that the use of quotes to show sarcasm or skepticism (often for humor) has overtaken it in some minds as its purpose. But that skepticism only works if someone also understands the actual purpose of quotes to begin with, so I hope the original usage of quotes never gets completely forgotten.

The only reason I haven’t picked this up already is because I think I will like it too much! Yup, that’s nuts, but I need to get work done

His news is making the temptation even harder to resist.

@Radbot42 Online is indeed a big question, but a bigger question is will it come to Switch? Seems likely multiplayer would come to PC first and Switch much, much later

I absolutely wanted to get into this game but the total lack of direction really killed it for me. I can only harvest turnips for so many hours before I get bored. At least something like Animal Crossing has distinct goals that are easy to perceive from the outset. This just sort of drops you off and gives you zero indication of what you should be doing, requiring either wasting untold hours trying to figure it out or going online to look up suggestions, which is something I shouldn’t have to do.

I really hope it's multi-platform, because that way I could play on the Switch with one of my siblings playing on the PC.

@Rubbercookie
It's supposed to come to Switch first.

@Radbot42 That's great news! (and worrisome considering Switch doesn't have an online infrastructure, but does very easily LAN up with other consoles) Do you remember where you heard it?

@thesilverbrick Whoa, really? My experience was almost the exact opposite!

I made a point of not looking anything up, and had close to no problem getting to grips with the game's logic. I'd say this is one of the very few "no instruction" games that get it right, making it feel like you're actually coming to terms to the character's new reality instead of just fumbling around.

The dungeon crawling should be fun

@setezerocinco Hope it helps. It works for me...about 37% of the time.

Oh how awesome this would have been when I was in college! My roommate and I spent many hours playing Minecraft together like this, and this sort of thing would have transferred easily. I hope it's not going to be ONLY local multiplayer though, not all of us live with a bunch of nearby gaming friends anymore.

@ricklongo I know my experience isn’t typical and most people love this game. I just felt like I spent hours and hours planting and harvesting turnips, never really understanding what to do or where to go next. The game is not explicitly clear about that. It just turned into a boring, daily life simulator for me. I know there are far more things to do, but it’s so open and daunting that I had zero idea where to start or exactly what the point was. And the more I asked for clarification from people who play the game religiously, the more I realize they can’t even explain what the game is all about or exactly what I should be doing in it. I just finally came to conclusion that it isn’t for me.

@thesilverbrick Me too. I like the game, but have no clue as about what I’m supposed to do next. I figured it was just me, as I’m completely lost in Zelda too, and so just can’t get into it

@Mijzelffan I guess it can be seen as cynical but I don't think this was the point considering how they love the game at NL.
Also it is a little unusual for a developper to call an update "really fun". They usually say they are excited to show it to the world