{"id":107899,"date":"2020-01-23T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357113"},"modified":"2020-01-23T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:28:00","slug":"stardew-valley-has-sold-10-million-copies-in-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/stardew-valley-has-sold-10-million-copies-in-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley has sold 10 million copies in 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ConcernedApe\u2019s charming farming sim <em>Stardew Valley <\/em>has officially surpassed 10 million copies sold across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a significant milestone for any game, and especially for one that was first released as a single developer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/267563\/The_4_years_of_selfimposed_crunch_that_went_into_Stardew_Valley.php\">years-long passion project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s strange &amp; amazing to think back to when I was making this game in my bedroom w\/ no clue if anyone would like it. Only 4 years ago!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/concernedape\/status\/1220407295667920896?s=21\">tweeted Barone<\/a>. \u201cTo everyone who has played this game, supported it, and made all of this possible: Thank you!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 PC launch of <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> was the result of four years of solo development by Eric Barone under the mantle ConcernedApe. In the years since, <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> has received a wealth of content updates and expanded beyond PC to reach PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Even in its early days, the <em>Harvest Moon<\/em>-inspired game captured a sizable amount of attention and momentum, topping best selling lists on Steam within weeks of release and later becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313335\/Stardew_Valley_was_the_mostdownloaded_Switch_title_in_2017.php\">single most downloaded <\/a>Switch title in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ConcernedApe\u2019s charming farming sim Stardew Valley has officially surpassed 10 million copies sold across all platforms. It\u2019s a significant milestone for any game, and especially for one that was first released as a single developer\u2019s years-long passion project. \u201cIt&#8217;s strange &amp; amazing to think back to when I was making this game in my bedroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}