Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game

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• ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s Portal 2… the Valve classic is Portal 2

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Here i was imagining “valve classic” was somehow a wildly popular game ive never heard of

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  • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a “classic”, but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That makes me feel old and I wasn’t even around for HL1. How’s your back feeling, millennials?

      I’m not old you’re young! I’m not hunched over grabbing my back grimacing that’s just my power stance!

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    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How’s your back feeling, millennials?

      Wearing good shoes and keeping my weight down and staying active so it feels fine.

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    • knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not great. Thanks for asking.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was 22 when Half-Life came out. I’m tired.

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    • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Doing fine. Sit up straight, do some light exercises, stretch, youll feel fine

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    • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You didn’t have to be such a jerk about the back pain tho.

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shit, you’re correct. It’s hard to believe. It feels like my first play of Portal 2 was just a couple years ago. It has been fourteen years…

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And I’d say that it is 100% deserved. Stardew Valley is a once in a lifetime kind of game and has one of the best developers you could ask for. Free new content and updates for 10 years and it’s still like $20 and frequently on sale. The developer actually tweeted out once that if he ever charged for new content that he’d want everyone to publicly shame him.

  “I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.”

  Stardew Valley is the gaming industry at its best and one of the best indie games out there.

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  • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My only issue has always been that I cannot throw more money at the ape. So I buy the game for gaming-adjacent friends and almost always ruin their lives convert them

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    • TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s what I do too. I’ve bought it for all my friends or have convinced them to get it. Feels like I’m a drug dealer trying to push it on everyone I know lol.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And at those prices I’ve bought it at least twice

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve bought it at least 5 times; sent it to a lot of family members.

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  • duchess@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not that it should be expected to dish out free content and never charge for DLC. Not every game has the kind of profit margin Stardew Valley has.

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    • HelluvaKick@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Idk Stardew Valley is a passion project if I’ve ever seen one. Sure, concernedape is making extraordinary profits, but it has to feel way better to have a decent size of the planet’s population playing and connecting with the project they poured their heart and soul into.

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    • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Considering how much time he spent developing it, I doubt the profit margin is actually all that good.

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    • TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But at the same time there are plenty of indie devs that sell games for $30 and then have a few $15 DLC on top of that after a few years. Not throwing shade at those other devs, more just saying that the dev for Stardew Valley could have sold DLC and nobody would have questioned it but chose not to. You could be like Stardew Valley and keep the game cheap, free updates, and frequent sales or you could be like Factorio and refuse to ever put your game on sale and up the price every couple of years and come out with a $20 DLC. And I’d be shocked if Stardew Valley has made less money than Factorio in the long run, especially with it being the in number one place right now.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meh, I prefer Terraria.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What valuing quality over profit does to a mf

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well it is the best game.

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Portal is such a great series. I hope we get a new one one day.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s one of my favorite games of all time, but I don’t think Portal 2’s basic formula would be culturally relevant if it was reused today. The quippy writing is very 2010s-coded (à la Guardians of the Galaxy), the gameplay is a bit too simple to be re-used as is in 2025, and the sweet&short linear storyline of Portal 2 would ironically be lacking ambition for a successor to Portal 2.

    Like all truly Great pieces of classic media, Portal 2 is a product of a skilled and truly passionate team getting together at the perfect time with the right idea, and reaching its public at a culturally relevant time.

    The Portal universe still has stories to tell, and there are still test chambers to solve, so I obviously wouldn’t complain if Portal 3 came out, but I understand why Valve wouldn’t want to make a barely decent game in the shadow of Portal 2.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had to settle for Lego Dimensions. Better than nothing. And GlaDOS arguing with HAL 9000 was pretty epic.

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    • Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Both Portal levels and both Doctor Who levels were great.

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  • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It’s the only game I’ve found that scratches the similar itch

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    • Saucepain@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d also recommend The Talos Principle and The Turing Test for similar itch scratches.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For the puzzle part, sure, but not the humor. I like The Stanley Parable for that aspect.

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    • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In a similar vein to Superluminal, I’d also recommend Viewfinder, it’s kinda like Portal but with a camera rather than a Portal gun.

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No pressure on their next game or anything.

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Deadlock doesn’t look bad

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been over the hero shooter fad for almost a decade. Where are the actually new ideas for the genre?

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• SandraBollocks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  jesus did i go back in time???

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, my child. You are where you belong.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.

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• TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Published: Jul 08, 2025, 22:37

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