Stressful?

[Workshed]

I heard this game is actually on the more stressful side after awhile because you end up with a list of things to do all the time and you're constantly on timers so you can't really like zone out and walk away from the PC do other things check discord etc and let it keep running or anything - is it true?

[weiilayou]

Well to start off... there are no timers that'll just keep going if you leave your PC. (This is me talking about the PC version, I have no experience with the mobile one but that doesn't seem to be what you're asking about anyway.) You can pause the game at any time, and if you just leave it running, the only thing that'll happen is that your character will pass out at 2 am in the game day and you'll go to the overnight screen showing the results of what you sold that day... and that screen doesn't go away unless you click to proceed, so the game will just be paused at that point.

This game is only as stressful as you make it. If your goal is just to relax, build relationships and decorate your farm, you can do that! Sure, crops will grow at different rates, but they all finish over nights, so it's not like you have to sit and watch them all day to collect them like in a your usual mobile farming sim. Also there's no rush to collect them, they won't rot until the end of the season. You can put a collector in your barn and coop so you don't even have to gather up your animal producs manually. They won't spoil if you leave them there until you feel like collecting, they just accumulate.

You have to feed your animals, but apart from winter you can just have them out grazing (there are easy tricks to make sure all the grass doesn't get eaten but keeps respawning). You can also upgrade your barn and coop so that there is automatic indoor feeding.

If you want to make a lot of money, well, it can be stressful but that's easy to counter. For example, make one or two sheds full of kegs to make wine, then fill all of them up at the same time. They'll then all pop at the same time, so you may spend a few hours in an in-game day collecting all the wine and refilling the kegs every once in a while. But there's no pressure to do that other than what you set on yourself.

Basically it only gets stressful if you get loads of different things and harvest them at different times. This game does not have deadlines except for quests, and those are completely optional.

[fancyfox]

The game can be stressful if you are impatient or a workaholic and it can be overwhelming. HOWEVER, stardew valley is mostly a really relaxing game where you can decide the pace for yourself. It has great story telling and it's fun to upgrade your farm, items and relationships. Just give it a try!

[smok1ch]

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[NBOX21]

This game is actually a lot more chill than you think it is. You can take your time with pretty much everything in the game. Even if there are quests that are timed, they do repeat every now and then so you'll never miss out permanently on a quest you may not be able to complete at that current point in time, though some do disappear for good upon completing them once.

Your farm gets assessed at the start of Year 3, and how well you do determines how many candles are lit at Grandpa's Shrine at that moment. If you don't light all four candles, you can try again as many times as you need to simply by offering a diamond to the shrine to have it assessed again the next day

Each day does have a time limit, but I usually found myself with more than enough time to get what I needed to get done in one day. Even if you take too long and can't get everything done, you almost always have an opportunity to try again the next day.

This game does have monsters you have to fight back against, but normally they only show up in the mines and the woods so depending on your play style, combat is entirely avoidable. They don't appear on your farm at night so you don't have to worry about making it back home before sunset, though there is an option for that if you want an extra challenge.

As for walking away from your PC during gameplay - if you're playing in single player, time should pause while the menus are displayed, meaning you have all the time you need to arrange items in your inventory, check quest progress, view your collections and so on. And yes, this also includes using Discord and other programs during play.

[Maya-Neko]

It can be stressfull, if you've like 1000+ crops, 6 barns/coops and hundreds of kegs, but obviously that's just something, people choose to do, because it makes fun to them. If you don't like that, then you can also just go with way less. You might take longer to make money, but the game doesn't have time gated stuff, so taking it slow isn't a disadvantage at all.