Who
knew
a
farming
and
life
simulator
could
be
this
popular?
Of
course,
if
you’ve
ever
played

Stardew
Valley
the
answer
to
that
question
is
obvious.
It’s
so
engaging
and
fun
to
play
and
rammed
full
of
stuff
to
do
that
it’s
easy
to
forget
the
game
is
made
by
just
one
guy:
Eric
“ConcernedApe”
Barone.

Mr.
ConcernedApe
has
updated
the
official
Stardew
Valley
website
with
some
new
sales
figures,
and
they
are
impressive:
the
game
has
managed
to
sell
over
41
million
copies.

Mr.
Ape
breaks
the
data
down
a
little
for
us,
saying
that
24
million
sales
have
been
on
PC,
and
7.9
on
the
Nintendo
Switch.
Sadly,
he
doesn’t
mention
other
platforms,
so
all
we
know
is
that
roughly
9
million
sales
have
occurred
on
PlayStation,
Xbox
and
mobile.

What’s
really
crazy
is
that
in
February
of
2024,
Mr.
Concerned
told
us
that
Stardew
Valley
had
hit
30
million
sales,
so
between
then
and
now
another
11
million
copies
of
the
game
have
been
sold.
Part
of
that
success
was
probably
the
massive
1.6
update
that
occurred
in
March.
Before
that,
the
game
typically
had
anywhere
from
10,000-50,000
concurrent
players
per
day,
which
is
already
quite
impressive.
Following
the
update,
though,
the
game
broke
its
own
records,

hitting
a
peak
concurrent
player
count
of

236,614.
Since
then,
Stardew
Valley
has
consistently
been
getting
over
100,000
concurrent
players
per
day.

It
also
helps
that
the
1.6
update,
like
all
other
updates
for
the
game,
was
completely
free.
Mr.
SlightlyWorriedSimian
remains
steadfast
in
his
refusal
to
charge
for
DLC
or
updates,
even
swearing
it
on
his
family
honour.

He
is
currently
working
on
a
new
game
titled
Haunted
Chocolatier,
but
in
April
of
2023
he
announced
he
was
taking
a
break
from
it
to
work
on
Stardew
Valley
some
more.