Stardew Valley is a 2016 farm life simulation role-playing video game that fits perfectly with the fall season. If you enjoy games like Animal Crossing you’ll definitely enjoy this game.

The game starts with a simple concept – during a stressful city life, you inherit a farm from your grandfather after his passing in a small village called ¨Pelican Town¨.

You’ll abandon the city and start your new life on a messy farm, tending to it, growing crops, harvesting and turning to a profit, and investing that profit in building a beautiful aesthetic-like farm.

The game is meant to take a moment in its day-to-day life through its slow pacing tasks. This gives it a cozy vibe to play late at night on a cold fall evening, Stardew Valley follows all seasons to fit any aesthetic. You engage in fishing, farming, exploring caves, and all sorts of different events. So there are different paths to profits and achievements.

It’s open-ended enough to keep your interest but has enough structure and concepts so you don’t get bored.

Eventually tending to the farm gets boring, yet, the game is made up of quests and role-playing. The player can romance and marry a chosen NPC, you can bond with them by completing their chosen quest giving them gifts and proposing (this includes same-sex marriage). Which gives an adorable fall romance.

If you download on a stream you can download mods to expand the game’s opportunities, mods include redesign, dialogues, crafting, children, etc.

Also, it’s worth mentioning that Stardew Valley isn’t just farming and romance. Stardew Valley’s lore is an interesting topic to get into, you meet a character named ¨Kent¨, who’s been at war overseas and you can piece some of it together through his dialogue alone.

The game hits at war, magic and conspiracy, hidden towns, and mysteries. The lore is present but vague, a simple balance of storytelling and stimulation.

I downloaded Stardew Valley during the summer and I’ve been in love with it ever since.