Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update smashes its Steam player record

Patch 1.6 gives Stardew Valley players masses of caller content, including this caller “Meadowlands” workplace biome. | Image: Stardew Valley / @pearblossoms_

Stardew Valley’s monolithic 1.6 update has been retired connected PC for little than 24 hours, and it’s already taken the game’s popularity to staggering caller heights. The cozy farming simulator deed 146,159 concurrent players connected Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game’s erstwhile grounds arsenic players flock to bask caller contented — including a caller farm, festivals, and pets.

Stardew Valley’s erstwhile highest of 94,875 concurrent Steam players was achieved backmost successful January 2021, soon aft the 1.5 update was released. By contrast, its caller grounds is higher than immoderate of the concurrent subordinate stats reported for Palworld this week — which is beauteous awesome for a near-decade-old indie RPG. Developer Eric “Concerned Ape” Barone had teased immoderate of the caller 1.6 update contented connected X successful the run-up to the spot being released yesterday, which apt helped to entice caller and existing fans backmost to the game.

Image: SteamDB Stardew Valley’s popularity has dilatory accrued since it was released successful 2016.

You tin work the afloat Stardew Valley 1.6 update spot notes here. Some highlights see a monolithic caller “Meadowlands” workplace optimized for carnal rearing, being capable to determination the farmhouse to a caller location, caller pets (including turtles and caller cat/dog breeds) and enactment for multiple pets, and a full clump of caller NPC dialogue. You tin besides present drink mayonnaise.

Some things haven’t been included successful the spot notes, truthful determination are a fewer surprises that volition lone beryllium discovered by playing the game.

The Stardew Valley 1.6 update is presently disposable connected Steam and GOG. A 1.6.1 patch to hole a fewer bugs has besides already been released. Barone hasn’t announced erstwhile the update volition beryllium acceptable for console and mobile devices, but says the Gamepass update is “incoming soon.” Stardew Valley is discounted to just $11.99 close present connected Steam for anyone not already swept successful by the hype.