Stardew Valley Reviews

Half of the time “Saving…” never completes and I lose my progress. In the first *hour* of playing, that happened multiple times. This alone motivates my 1-star review. But while I’m here: For such an extraordinarily popular game, it’s amazing how poor the quality-of-life is. The controls are horrible. Just getting your character to go where you want is super aggravating. The pathfinding is surprisingly bad. *Super* basic operations aren’t covered in a tutorial and are non-obvious how to accomplish. Such as fishing (one of the main parts of the game) and eating. Sometimes quests will disappear from your list with no warning. 10 minutes of in-game time pass every 7 seconds. (This game is supposed to be relaxing??) For a 2D game with simple graphics, it uses entirely too much battery. Maybe the secret to having fun with this game is to play it on a PC or a Mac and use a ton of mods?

I’ve played many hours of this game on Xbox and thoroughly enjoyed it. On that platform, I’ve run into very few problems. That is not the case on iOS at all. Day 1 on the farm, during the tutorial, messages walking me through how to plant seeds start popping up. When it gets to the one that says to plant some seeds in the ground, it will not go away no matter how many seeds I plant. The message covers the inventory bar and makes the menu and quest buttons disappear. I can’t do anything in the home farm area because of this. Also, I’ve already run into numerous times in only 15 minutes of play time where tapping on things simply doesn’t work. I have to sit there and tap dozens of times and just wait for it to decide to work (this happened with the gift mayor Lewis leaves in the house). As much as I like the original game, this iOS version was so horribly executed I can’t even play through a full in-game day. It’s unfortunate they were too greedy to actually wait to release the mobile game until it was fully ready and consistent in quality with the PC/console versions. Uninstalled.

The whole game is very much cool & for a quarter price heck ya! But their a big BUT in the case the whole game is good but recently not to long ago I was playing and it kept crashing my game which was odd I am not sure if because it’s Apple Arcade it has to be a good connection to the wifi to be able to play or something I don’t know, crashes are very frequently like.. way to much they happen every time you have been in the game for like 20 mins & anything you have done in that time.. well it goes away like nothing happened that day over all it’s so good everything else is good just that the crashes need to be fixed ASAP! & as well as the black smith shop also having crashes every time you get in their also sound playing like if you were still out side instead of inside :\

I absolutely love this game, but I would read it higher. If it had multiple player the reason I downloaded this game is because I thought it was multiplayer and I could play with my brother and sister that don’t really know how to play games and so I could teach them, but when I realized I didn’t want it I still played the game. The game is amazing and everything just the multiple player. We need multiple player because it is unfair that people on computers or Nintendo switches can play on multiple players some of us can’t afford computers or Nintendo switches or stuff like that so please make it to where we could play multiple player that would be amazing
Edit: it would be great if we got multiple player before April 2025

I can play this game for hours. Absolutely love it. It’s such an amazing way to de-stress after work. The story is so fun, gameplay is relaxing and super accessible for folks who may not be big gamers and/or just want to play for fun without a huge challenge.

Anyway, I’ve been playing on my iPad most recently & am on the last day of summer in year 3. I’ve completed more challenges and found so many more locations and little surprises than I have in previous plays, but the game has started crashing every 10 minutes or so. The screen goes mostly black with a tan rectangle where the item menu typically is. I have to close out of StardewValley entirely to fix, and lose all progress for the day I’m on. Upon reloading, I start at the beginning of that day, not where I left off. Super frustrating to have to redo the same day Groundhog Day-style multiple times an hour.

I have tried deleting and reinstalling StardewValley with no luck. I even checked to see if I could transfer this save file to the regular version of Stardew (not Apple Arcade), and it looks like this is not possible.

Please please fix whatever bug is causing the game to crash.

Every time I try to process geodes my game crashes on both iOS (iPhone 14 pro running latest OS update) and iPadOS (iPad pro 12.9, also running latest update). I was really excited about mining and having geodes processed but upon checking Reddit it appears this has been an issue in the iOS version of the game for the past 74 days at least, so I’m not holding my breath for there to be an update and I’ll just sell my unprocessed Geode so it stops taking up space in my inventory. It’s also frustrating because the first time it happened, I had already watered all of my crops and attended to other chores before going to have the geode processed, so all of my progress from that day was gone.

Outside of this the game is great, especially once I figured out I could connect my Xbox controller via Bluetooth. I’ll gladly update my review to 5 stars once the geode issue is resolved.

First, I love this game. Had the paid version before getting Apple Arcade+. FYI, if you have both you will see your game saves from both in either version BUT if you try to play the Apple Arcade version on your paid Stardew Valley app the updates to the paid app will not be applied. They fixed the pet water bowl issue for the paid version in 1.6.12. They still have not fixed this issue in the Apple Arcade version. They also haven’t fixed the sizing issue for iPhone 16 Pro Max in either version of the game. Probably because in the screenshots it doesn’t look like there is a huge issue which isn’t the case. I would rather pay a reasonable amount for updates if it means the updates are better fleshed out. The game is worth paying for updates…. But only if they are not as buggy as all the updates from 1.6 have been to date. I have gotten so far in my saved game in Apple Arcade and would hate to start over again in the paid version but I may have no choice to have a less buggy experience.

I absolutely love Stardew, so I was super stoked to see it available on Arcade. I’m 19 days into my first spring, but just had to force quit the game because of the bugs. Sometimes moving across the map between sections is buggy, as is attempting to buy seeds at Pierre’s. I just got stuck in the mine and Linus found me because the game froze while I was being attacked. I also wish there was a better system for manual attacks, as I try to attack the creatures, and the game switches to my other tools mid hit. Having to force quit and not being able to save is so frustrating because I don’t even know what I lost/gained that day. I know it’s a game on a new system, but I really hope it is upgraded soon so it feels semi-similar to other systems.

So I got this game a wile back and I just loved it. After a wile I stopped playing it, but I wanted to play it again this month. For a little wile my life has been pretty stressful, but this game really made me calm down and feel Safer! I know not all games are perfect so it’s usual to have bugs. There is one but in particular that annoys me though. I like to call it ‘the fisher’s bug’ because so sometimes after you are fishing the reeling sound won’t stop so I have to sleep, and then get out of the game and go back in it. But other than that it’s an amazing game! Thank you so much for making this game! Also try out the og it’s pretty much the same!

amazing game SO fun and genuinely unique. i have 1 greivance.
there IS a way to throw stuff out of your inventory, it should just either be explained that you throw it at the *total farm revenue* area, or they should make it so you can throw an item out any direction. Here is the bug with that: during fishing, if you have a full inventory with another item to pick up (like a new fish or treasure chest) that exceeds your capacity, there is no way to throw an item out of your inventory then. you have to let the new thing go, or throw something away.
another teeny greivance is at the end of the day if you level up, there are no pictures (e.g, unlocking dish o the sea).
again other than the fishing item thing, its a beautiful game and so worth it

Love the mobile version, it is a little buggy though, I’ll get into that in a sec though, I really appreciate the creators making a mobile version of the game as I don’t have a Switch and it isn’t really a game I’d play on console and for the most part it runs super well!! But occasionally my fishing sound will get stuck playing when I’m not fishing, and almost every time I boot up the game, I’ll get most of the way through whatever day I left off on, and my screen goes Black and I can’t do anything, I have to close the game and go back through my entire day again, it only happens when I first boot it up so I’m not sure if maybe it’s just what I play on or if it’s the actual game itself (I play on an older IPad) but other than that, I love it!

YOU NEED TO GET THIS- NO WORDS, get either the arcade version, or the original if u don’t have arcade. BUT ITS SO GOOD! I got this recommended by my best friend, and he was RIGHT that I would like it. First of all, You can choose many things. Your name, favorite thing, town name, what u look like, and best of all, where u LIVE. There are so many varieties of places to live. There are beaches, river homes, and I picked wilderness. ( I just liked it and I thought it was aesthetic there was monsters at night idk why) your story or whatever is determined based on where you live, because the people you meet are always different. And one of the main parts of the game is, finding someone you love or something, and marry them! What’s cool is when you go into some house or something, you can’t enter certain part’s without being good friend with whoever it belongs to, which adds a lot to your limitations, in a good way. I like the idea of the story a lot, how you live in a overwhelming life in a city or something, and your grandfather has you move out to the “simple life” to build a life there. And farm and do whatever! Last thing, there is ALOT of adventure in it, there are caves, you can take a bus soMwhEre, and the map surprisingly expands very far! Thanks for reading!

This is a great combo of games! On one hand you have a farming sim, the other you have an action adventure game. It takes time to do things so be prepared for that. Exploring 3 areas in total (Mine shaft, Dessert area cave, and the Volcano area) there is always something to do.

Main Island: The town and your main farm.

First off, my hats off to the one man show Concernedape. You are impressive to have captivated so many people by making this game. 👏👏👏 that being said.

On the mainland you have the starting point. This town has everything a town could want even a bar with 2 mini games in it. There is a Clinic, a grocery store and even a book store to the northeast side of town.

Area 2 is a dessert with a bottomless cave in it. New enemies to kill and challenges to overcome.

Island number 3 is basically a huge greenhouse where you can grow anything any time you want. With a super important volcano cave on the north side.

You have some skills I’ll give you that.
But I’m gonna ask something I’ve not seen anyone else ask yet. Now that the final patch and updating is coming out. Are there any plans for a part two?

Great game overall, my first experience with stardew valley and its due to apple arcade. It would have been great if mac support could have been added or apple tv. I like the aspect of my saved data being synced to the cloud so I can play on both my phone and ipad but adding mac would have been the missing piece. Or if at least game controller support can be added, touch controls are not always the best especially on smaller phones. Would also like to mention that there is a bug when fishing that the audio after a few reels would get stuck and sound like you are reeling fish even when done fishing.

Hope my feedback actually gets recognized, I have put over 40 hours since apple arcade released it. Could get so many more into the game.

I love this game so much, so happy it released on Apple Arcade!!

I have a few things to say to the negative reviewers:

For those saying the cutscenes break randomly, try not tapping the screen until it finishes. If you zoom in or out it will break it. And also the one guy that says it will randomly zoom in all the way, he’s touching the screen with his other finger and not realizing it, I know from experience.

For those complaining about the controls, have you even looked in the settings?? There are a few options that make it way easier to control if you just take the time to experiment. Personally I use invisible joystick and 2 buttons and I adjusted the button sizes where I want them.

Lastly, those saying the game crashes a lot, I’ve only experienced a few really game breaking things, maybe like one or two crashes. Other times I’ll accidentally do something wrong with zoom and it makes the whole screen black and forces me to quit. Idk why it would crash so many times for so many people but I feel like it’s a hardware issue for most of them. And of course the game will crash and have bugs, all games do.

Not trying to be mean just trying to help everyone else have a great time playing the game! Can’t wait for haunted chocolatier!

This game is an absolutely amazing game and I have so much fun playing it. I have it on switch and Xbox as well but playing it on the phone is super convenient. However the controls options are somewhat limited. It has a touch to move kind of thing similar to league of legends, and then it has a joystick with buttons configuration which is the one I use. Honestly though I hate having to use the joystick because of the traction with the thumb… it’s hard to explain but it just bugs me.

A simple solution to that is to just add an arrow/D-pad configuration. Since the movement is very simple with only being able to go horizontal vertical and diagonal. It would be very simple to add it into the game and honestly would make my experience 10 times better.

Devs if you are reading this PLEASE ADD THE D-PAD CONFIGURATION

This is my first time playing this game. I am in my 9th year in game time. I really enjoy this game. It is very addictive. I only have a few requests that I wish they would fix/improve.
Mostly, I wish they would allow us to turn off or remove the auto arrange buttons in the inventory/chest/backpack/mini refrigerator & etc. It is extremely irritating as you are unable to arrange items into any reasonable order to find anything especially in the chest & mini refrigerators. I’m playing on a touch screen & if I hold an item too long or put too much pressure then it auto arranges (totally messes things up). I don’t even have to touch the auto arrange button.
Second, the day in the game could be a little longer to cause less stress. And if we pass out on our own property then we should not be charged by Dr. or fined otherwise.

I love playing this game and highly recommend it, but every time i fish in the game, if i catch more than like 3-4 fish, then the next fish i catch the “reeling in” sound will play continuously even when not fishing. i have tried going to bed and it still plays during the income screen and will be playing the next morning. i have tried exiting to title and it will still play. i have to completely exit out of the game, and swipe it out of my open apps to then reopen it for the sound to finally not play. it is extremely aggravating especially when it happens during the beginning of a day i want to save so i have to listen to it until i can go to bed to save and close StardewValley . i do not know where else/how to report this so hopefully these actually get read by concerned ape and they can patch this in the next update!

I think this game is so fun and addicting, I absolutely love the cute animals and how you build up your life from the ground up. I also like that you don't have to click 3 things and win, you work hard and then your work pays off. If you look at all the reviews (like me) then don't be distracted by the age ratings. The game pays off unless you get upset/frustrated with games easily. And if you want all the benefits you may want to marry. But keep in mind that this is a hard game to get good at and have the best life, but work hard and keep calm, and you will not be able to put your device down!!!

Thanks 4 reading, and plz get StardewValley , NekoKitti:3

StardewValley is absolutely wonderful, from the quests, to the people, or the creative aspects. I’m extremely satisfied with the gameplay! Also idea, do you think that you could make it so you can write stuff in the calendar, like reminders for that day on a calendar you bought form robin, and when you sleep I could have this extra thing when switching to the next day to say, reminders: (insert written message)/none. That would be really helpful because I often forget to do things around the farm because there are so many fun distractions! Just a suggestion i absolutely love this game!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️