‘Stardew Valley’ has sold more than 20 million copies

Six years after its preliminary launch,  has sold more than 20 million copies. Creator Eric Barone shared information of the accomplishment in an replace posted to the sport’s and an interview with . “The 20 million copies milestone is really amazing,” he informed the outlet.

But what’s even more spectacular is the growing tempo of Stardew Valley’s gross sales. It took 4 years for the sport to promote its first 10 million copies. Since September 2021, it has sold 5 million items. “The average daily sales of Stardew Valley are higher today than at any point,” Barone mentioned. “I’m not precisely positive why that’s. My hope is that the sport is simply persevering with to unfold through phrase of mouth, and the more folks which are taking part in it, the more folks will share the sport with their associates.”

Barone informed PC Gamer he plans to proceed engaged on Stardew Valley however is now primarily targeted on , a brand new motion RPG he introduced final fall. “Ultimately I have to follow my heart or else the quality of the content will suffer,” Barone mentioned.

Twenty million copies sold is a powerful feat for any sport, not to mention one {that a} single particular person developed. Barone started engaged on Stardew Valley after graduating with a computer science diploma from the University of Washington Tacoma. He discovered that he couldn’t land a position in his area following the 2008 monetary disaster, so he began creating the sport to hone his craft. He then spent the following 4 years engaged on the project earlier than lastly releasing Stardew Valley in the beginning of 2016. Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier paperwork all the saga in his glorious 2017 ebook .