It also has a wizard sat on the edge of town, and an amoral corporation on the other side of town, who want to rebuild the town in their image. It doesn’t shy away from depicting those. For another, it has homelessness, booze, homosexual relationships, small town depression and all the other joys of modern rural living. For one thing, it’s got traditional game murder in it, as you kill innocent beasties in the town mine. That said, Stardew Valley does Westernise and modernise the concept.
It’s about the idolisation of nature, whilst also being about acquiring as much stuff as possible. It’s single-player whilst also having a social structure you have to inveigle yourself into. It’s peaceful whilst simultaneously being a relentless work-like grind. It’s Harvest Moon or Animal Crossing, the farm and community building game, which focuses on the slow expansion of your life in a beautiful, bucolic environment. So we have Beamdog filling in Baldur’s Gate, Gearbox doing Homeworld, Wargaming doing Master of Orion, and Nightdive doing anything that’s left over.īut Stardew Valley is a genre that never died – it’s just one that’s not been on PC.
Megaman, Ultima Underworld, Planescape Torment, System Shock… If the original developer doesn’t fancy the legal tribulations of the revival process, then someone else will, and sometimes buy the IP.
Is nostalgia so all-encompassing in this industry that no game can just be left to die? All of the games of my childhood seem to have clawed their way out of their graves recently.
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