{"id":135872,"date":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196861"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","slug":"i-am-not-going-to-abandon-haunted-chocolatier-concernedape-responds-to-fan-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/i-am-not-going-to-abandon-haunted-chocolatier-concernedape-responds-to-fan-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Am Not Going To Abandon Haunted Chocolatier” – ConcernedApe Responds To Fan Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re all excited to see what Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is cooking up with Haunted Chocolatier<\/strong>, the upcoming life sim where you run a chocolate shop with the help of ghosts, and ConcernedApe’s second game after the mammoth hit of Stardew Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But things are taking a little while, which is causing some fans to get a little concerned. But Barone has assured fans that he’s “still working like always” in a new blog post<\/a> (thanks, IGN<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Addressing those concerns directly, Barone says, “Yep, it\u2019s taking a while to finish the game. That\u2019s okay”, but acknowledges that he may have gotten ahead of himself revealing the game when he did: “I know, I know, I shouldn\u2019t have announced the game so early. But I had my reasons.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the blog post looks at some of the general chatter and “false assumptions” that have been going around fan communities over the years, all of which Barone dismisses.<\/p>\n

One assumption that has been going around is that Haunted Chocolatier will be abandoned and instead will just be added onto Stardew Valley \u2014 a game that has been getting regular updates since its release in 2017, as recently as December 2025 with the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“No. First, I am not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier. But even if I did, I am not going to add it to Stardew Valley” Barone writes, saying that wouldn’t even make sense “from a technical perspective. “Haunted Chocolatier is written from scratch, it\u2019s not the same \u201cengine\u201d as Stardew Valley. You can\u2019t just copy and paste Haunted Chocolatier into Stardew Valley.”<\/p>\n