Deal | 1 million+ reviews, 98% positive: Legendary life-sim RPG on Steam drops back to all-time low

Ten years. Fifty million copies. Nearly a million Steam reviews sitting at 97% positive. And somehow, Stardew Valley just dropped back to its lowest-ever price. As part of this week's Steam Weekend Deal, Stardew Valley is currently 50% off, bringing it down to $7.49 — and according to SteamDB's two-year price tracker, that matches the game's all-time historic low. The deal runs until May 21, so there's a narrow window here.

If you somehow haven't played it: Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG where you inherit an old farm plot and slowly rebuild both the land and the surrounding community. That description undersells it considerably. What ConcernedApe — a single developer named Eric Barone — built here over four years is one of the most complete and generous games ever released. Since launch, it has received numerous free updates, and a new major content update — version 1.7 — is currently in the works. Whatever you pay for it now, you're buying into that future content too.

The game recently crossed its 10-year anniversary and 50 million copies sold, yet it currently has nearly 50,000 concurrent players on Steam. These are numbers that most new releases would be thrilled to see at launch, let alone a decade in.

At $7.49, it's genuinely hard to think of a better value proposition in PC gaming right now. Stardew Valley runs on practically anything, including a Steam Deck (curr. $700 for a renewed variant on Amazon), supports up to 8-player co-op online, and will realistically absorb hundreds of hours before you've seen everything it has to offer.

The deal ends May 21.

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