Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted June 11, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted June 11, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has confirmed his upcoming game, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , is "larger" than the already sizeable Stardew Valley. How much *******, or in which way it's *******? Sorry — Barone didn't elaborate. "The world of Haunted Chocolatier is larger than Stardew Valley" is the full extent of his This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . If he's referring to the length of the game, however, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up has the average Stardew Valley playtime listed as over 50 hours for just the main story, and around 168 hours for a completionist run. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, these 10 words sent a ripple of excitement through his fan communities, with one This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up : "[Concerned Ape] STOP TEASING. I MEAN- DONT STOP TEASING. I MEAN- IDK IM SO EXCITED BUT I DONT WANT U TO RUSH TAKE UR SWEET **** TIME WE LOVE U." Last month, Barone admitted that he "didn't want to just be the Stardew Valley guy," explaining that was why he's currently working on Haunted Chocolatier. We shouldn't expect a release date anytime soon, though — there's "still a lot to be done," Barone recently admitted, particularly as he feels it's This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . However, he also suggested that he may This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Before you get too excited, however, the developer also said it's "so much easier to just add more stuff to Stardew Valley than to make a whole new game from scratch." "It's all the systems — all the major systems — are already all done. That’s the stuff that’s not fun to do. When I make an update [for Stardew Valley now], it’s like, you know, oh, throw in this, throw in that. Let’s add green rain — like, these random, whimsical ideas." This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Much like Stardew Valley, it will be a top-down pixel-based sim, and it looks to have much the same flavor as ConcernedApe's previous work. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/273135-steam-concernedape-says-the-world-of-haunted-chocolatier-will-be-even-larger-than-stardew-valley/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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