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2021 Ranked #1,237

Stardew Valley: The Board Game

Cooperative farming game where players fish, forage, raise animals, and gather resources to restore a valley community. Shared goals demand coordinated seasonal planning, as time passes quickly and every task competes for the farm's attention.

Thematic Games Animals Farming Die Icon Resolution Events

Players

1-4

Play time

45-200 min

Age

13+

Complexity

2.73/5

Rating

7.40

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.8/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.7/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the Stardew Valley video game by Eric Barone. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the Valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation!

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A cooperative board game of farming and friendship based on the Stardew Valley video game by Eric Barone. Work together with your fellow farmers to save the Valley from the nefarious JojaMart Corporation! To do this, you'll need to farm, fish, friend and find all kinds of different resources to fulfill your Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center. Collect all kinds of items, raise animals, and explore the Mine. Gain powerful upgrades and skills and as the seasons pass see if you're able to protect the magic of Stardew Valley! The goal of the game is to complete Grandpa's Goals and restore the Community Center, which requires you to gather different types of resources represented by tiles. You have a fixed amount of turns to accomplish this. This is driven by the Season Deck of 20 cards, one of which is drawn each turn to trigger certain events. Cooperatively the players decide each turn where they will focus their individual actions and place their pawn in that part of the Valley. Using their actions, they visit specific locations, trying to gather resources to complete their collective goals. Actions include things like: watering crops, trying to catch fish, rolling dice to explore the mines, and many more. When the Season Deck is exhausted, the game ends.

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–3
Play time
45–200 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.7/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Eric Barone Cole Medeiros

Artists

4
Alex Van Der Aa Luke Aiello Gustavo "Goose" Gutierrez Rachel Lapidow

Publishers

1
ConcernedApe

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