According to the game’s 1.5 update, the launch of which was a pleasant end of the year treat for many fans.
The update was before the end of the month. With all of this to explore, players have been flocking back to the game in droves, hoping to see all the new sights and helping to break Stardew Valley’s previous records.
As noted in the final section of a post by Eric Barone on the game’s 1.5.2 patch, Stardew Valley has sured its previous record on Steam and hosted an impressive 94,879 players at one time. The developer’s commentary was short and sweet, merely observing that this recent record-breaking number of in-game players was, “Pretty cool.” The larger text was concerned with various fixes and changes that he had made to the game and was dotted with redacted-looking text to accommodate fans that might want to read the notes but not be spoiled by certain elements. Mostly, it seems that this list simply contained details of smaller adjustments and fixes.
While Stardew Valley was certainly popular during its initial release, it looks like the game will be ing the ranks of several others which attained or significantly increased in popularity several years after launch. One of these titles, Rust, a game that originally released in 2013, also recently beat its own player records, which helped early draft of the of the Mira HQ map which had been drawn on a whiteboard.
It is great to see these indie games like Stardew Valley getting unexpected, record-breaking player surges even years after their original release. With the game’s 1.5 update hitting consoles sometime in the near future, hopefully Barone will be able to report similar numbers for that demographic soon.
Source: Eric Barone
