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Thanks, I'm happy I finally found someone who shares the experience I had with the game (especially the stress of all the loops-within-loops), especially as a fellow Outer Wilds enjoyer.

i like to think that the thumbnail is meant to imply that marnie, personally, is the reason that stardew valley is stressful.

For me it is exactly the opposite. Stardew Valley has been a life saver over the last few years as it helped me to de-stress!

Stardew is only as stressful as you make it. I just completed perfection for the first time and that took me 5 years, 2 months, and 2 days. Something that takes veterans and minmaxers about 2 years. I don't bother worrying about the time limits because I know they aren't really time limits and everything is infinite and you can take as long as you need for any one thing.

Mods really help the game a lot. I have this Mail system mod that allows me to Mail quest items and Gifts to everybody. so that saves a lot of time. a trip to the Mailbox is a lot faster then seeing Sandy in person. plus there are things you can do to Increase your Speed that help. like Placing Paths and using them makes you run a little Faster. Constructing a Horse shelter and riding the Horse is much faster then walking. or using Tea or Coffee or if you have lots of Coffee. (I keep a shed full of Coffee Bean Plants for this) you can turn a few Coffee into Triple Shot Expresso which have a better speed boost then Coffee. Also buying a Joja Membership and Paying for stuff with Money is way faster then doing all the CC Bundles. plus if you buy every Community Upgrade from Joja they will sell you Auto Petters for a single gold and those will pet your animals for you. otherwise you have to find them randomly from Treasure Floors in the Skull Caverns.

Also about truffles you can get them at the travelling cart occasionally. I got mine at the night market in winter.

I absolutely love stardew but it definitely stresses me out. I have reset days simply because I didn't get to Robin in time. 😅

Before watching the video: My opinion is that this game is only stressful if you inflict yourself with the stress arbitrarily

What I like about the game: It gave me goals that I can achieve (accept for the Hector challenge, for now) What I hate about the game: decorating the farm

Community center isn't supposed to be finished in year one. You can, but at cost of minimaxing which of course is stressful. I think we finished CC only by the end of year 2 or 3 and we weren't short on money at all. And i don't bother with socials at all, i just have a few friends i decided my character is fitting to befriend and was growing our relationships naturally. At year 4 I only have best friend with Willy. And 7 hearts with George. A few others too.

If you play stardew without watching any content about it, the stress is non existent.

It all honestly sounds like self-imposed stress instead of Stardew being stressful itself. Most every stressfactor pointed out just isn't even a stressor. You do not need to get the center done in the first year, talk to the characters everyday, or gift them things on their birthday or heck even pet your pet everyday. Of course everyone stressed out by different things, but I would disagree with implying that Stardew Valley is stressfull

Do not get me wrong I understand and appreciate the message of the video. However for anyone who does find Stardew stressful and doesn't enjoy the idea of a day wasted is a day less you have, there is no shame in resetting the day. The way you do that is by quitting the save before you progress to the next day. I you're on PC and unintentionally went to the next day before you could reset go to the folder where your Saves are located and you'll see folders that have your farm name one them. Open the folder that has the save you want to fix, delete or move the save file to another folder, the file you're removing will be named "[Farm Name]_[Seed]", as an example one of mine is called "DontStarve_38186388". Next rename the file that will be called "[Farm name]_[seed]_old" and delete the "_old" at the end. An example of the old version for me is "DontStarve_38186388_old". Doing this will bring you back to the previous day that you had lost. Also another tip to try and help with the funds problem, try to get to the 80th floor of the mines as fast as you can and want to go. As you're making your way down when you reach level 5 in mining pick the miner profession for more ore, and if you get to level 10 before, or after, you get to floor 80 pick the blacksmith profession to increase the sell price of metal bars by 50%. Once you get to floor 80 keep using the elevator to go to the 80th floor, then go down to the 81st and mine any gold ore nodes you see, go back up smelt as needed and repeat. If you ever run low on coal just pop down to floors 45, 55, 65 and 75 to kill any dust sprites you see once you reach floor 75 go back to floor 0 and repeat until you have the amount of coal desired. Put aside 20-25 gold bars, 20 is the amount needed to upgrade all of your tools to gold with 25 including your trashcan upgrade. Finally sell any gold bars you have and make from now on once you've reached level 10 in mining. Doing this will get you a lot of money fast for early game standards. Later down the line there are better money makers but for your first 2-3 months that should have you covered in the money making department. Bonus tips: When you've killed your 500th Dust Sprite be sure to get the reward so you can get even more monster drops, which includes coal dropped from Dust Sprites. If you want to upgrade your watering can and don't have any sprinklers wait until you see that the next day will be a rainy day, water all of your crops for today and then go and upgrade your watering can. Assuming there isn't a festival the day your watering can will be ready you'll be able to get your upgraded can on the exact day you need it. Be sure to check the travailing cart EVERY Friday and Sunday she can have some really good stuff including things that may be hard to get in the community center. Speaking of things to always do, when it's a Sunday ALWAYS get the Queen of Sauce recipe. There is a new book that will give you any missing recipes now, but that book is locked behind some pretty late game stuff so it's best to get every recipe so you don't miss something you may have wanted later down the line. And finally the most important tip of all, there is no wrong way to play this game. If you are having fun then continue doing it, you're not hurting anyone by not making 10 billion gold in your first year. It is fun to set goals but don't let you not being able to do them prevent you from having fun. The tips I am giving don't need to be followed and are only there to help if you want to play the game like it's an efficiency simulator like I do.

The majority of this video is devoted to reinforcing my boycott of giving Clint Fridays off. Joja Co is life.

I have a mod to speed up my walking and to make the time slightly slower. It's much more relaxing now. I also enabled one click fishing because I HATE fishing and never wanted to do it.

Two reasons I find SDV stresssful: I want to play a good early game, so that I get the wealth snowball running. If, in Spring year 1, I can build up to have 16 Sprinklers and lots of seeds, I’m set. I’ve achieved wealth, and I’ll stay wealthy. As the seasons progress. my crops get closer and closer to 100% automated watering, giving me more free time, and stuff that costs 5k or even 10k coin becomes trivially cheap to buy. Secondly, I don’t feel a need to complete the CC in year 1, but I do truly hate it when I miss out on a fish whose obscure rules I didn’t know about, and so I’m set back 2 seasons or even a full year. Well, OK, there’s a third source of stress, errors I make, like if I spend 1.5 in-game hours walking to a place to do a thing, and then I realise I forgot to bring the item required to do the thing (classic one is going to Clint to get my Axe upgraded, but the Axe is at home in a Chest). A Horse, Coffee (and Carrots if you can play 1.6 on your device) and presumably the Carts, mitigates this, by reducing travel times markedly, but early game it’s very stressful, losing 2.5-3 in-game hours to a derp. A fourth source, very minor, happens to me in late Spring year 1, when it looks like I won’t get anywhere near close to my wealth goal, and I’m just hoping that in the following few days stuff will start to finish, Cauliflowers in the ground and in Preserves Jars. But it’s still that thing, early on in, say, Spring 25 or 26, not having a clue if I’ll earn 1500 or 6000 the next day.

IMO for people who play a lot of games of different genres I feel "cozy" games like stardew valley are actually way more stressful and you really need to change your entire mindset to really enjoy them. When you play a lot of games you naturally just build up the instinct of "efficiency" of trying to get as much done in as little of a time frame as possible. While that mindset still works for stardew valley when you miss a strict deadline like a season change the idea of needing to wait 3 seasons for it to loop back around is like a panic attack inducing event. You kind of have to let it go and be ok with just sleeping through 3 seasons and not feel like you're wasting and cope that the game has no time limit so being in a comatose state and ignoring the town for 3/4ths of the year is fine. I get that the example used in your video is more of a player imposed challenge since there's nothing that forces you to complete the community center in a year but the idea of missing 1 item whether it be truffles or a season specific crop and needing to skip an entire year just to complete an objective is pretty stressful even if you're not trying to minmax the game.

I thought Stardew was stressful until I played it and realized it's not.

I truly felt the stress of stardew when i wanted to decorate my farm, 1 day trying to decorate a small section where i wasted a lot of hours trying things out and seeing what looked better and what not, to actually start building in like day 3 or something because days fly by so hard in this game, i think it took me 4 in game weeks to get everything in place, even ignoring festivals and stuff just to get my farm dripped out... only to still not convincing me... Even to this day when i try to play a "comfy" farm i still need to pause just to think or reset the day if i had to backtrack for something i forgot

I’m just stressed out because I’m waiting for the 1.6 update to come out on PS5 or the switch pick one … hurry up already

12:04 FTL sleeper agent activated

8:55 Where is a special event that can happen in a new loop. But you just need to dive straight in a mystery to discover it.

I can see why people feel overwhelmed by stardew. Theres sooo much to do and very little handholding. I refuse to let it stress me out though and don't min-max at all. Ive literally spent an hour just fishing and ignoring any quests, requests and community centre bundles. I just don't do the stuff i dont like doing and mod whatever i cant get away with avoiding. My first playthrough, I never entered the skull cavern once and instead got the statue of perfection and relied on that for iridium.

I went into Stardew just wanting to get perfection. I don't care how long it takes. I'll make speed a priority in a later run.

The stress is the RUSH 😁 Enjoy it! 😇

The truffle is a big cash drain, but my goal year 1 is getting the greenhouse, which is very achievable. I always get in fall 10 or 11 with speed grow fertilizer on pumpkins. Getting the CC done is cool, but I don’t make much use of ginger island until year 2 anyway. The greenhouse allows me to get my ancient seeds planted to multiply them as well as getting strawberries ready for spring year 2.

Bro this is why I miss mi blind experience with Stardew Valley, I didin't know what the game required and I was so chill about it, but now knowing everything, the min max is so powerful that I end by burnout

I've finished CC by the end of fall twice now by consulting a guide and being really, really stressed out 😅 True perfection though haven't done it in two years despite trying my best. The rng on community board is what's stuffing me up like not getting the right quest on time and getting Demetrios' and Pierre's quests all the time.

I knew SV was stressful when I realized I felt relaxed while playing Project Zomboid afterwards

This was a wild video to come across for me, I was taking a break from my checklist to complete perfection on stardew, got Outer Wilds from the steam sale, no lifed that for a few days and then this video pops up. You totally nailed the analysis I myself was feeling, from the stress of listing out every item I needed to collect in stardew to the curiosity that lead me to just float in space next to some weird floating satellite thing for an entire cycle to see if it did anything (keeping that detail vague for obvious reasons, but you've definitely seen the thing I'm talking about). I choose to believe you made this video for exclusively me lol. Very good stuff.

Stardew is so relaxing. Outer Wilds is so stressful and horrorifying that it induces great anxiety and has made me cry.

oh ghost how i've missed you dearly

I dont really understand this. Completing the community center within one year always felt like a bit of 'speedrun' to me, for people who want the challenge. So feeling stressed because of this self-imposed time limit of one year is like saying you dont like a game because speedrunning it you felt stressed cause you had to be quick? You can play however many years you like. You can even ask grandpa for another evaluation if you didnt get all candles the first time around. You got all the time you want.

This is EXACTLY my problem with Stardew and games similar to it, and why I feel that i need mods (f.e. time slow) to play it in a way i feel comfortable with! I very rarely do multiple playthroughs of a game, so I want to be able to play a game comfortably on my first playthrough without feeling that I'm "missing out" because of time constraints. I'm aware that there's no actual missing out, because the game loops after the first year, but what if I miss that specific summer thing again the second year because of being distracted with something else? Missing a time-line like that feels like actual waste of time, in a game where I'm supposed to have a cosy time and enjoy the little things. It makes me feel overwhelmed, stressed, and pretty quickly makes me lose interest aswell. Great video!

Excellent video. I thought I was watching a big Stardew youtuber, Im sure you will get a lot of subscribers soon! I just started playing stardew recently, and am on my first year and have been feeling so overwhelmed trying to complete the community center in my first year. I gave up on that goal and have been feeling so much better playing it 😅

i use way more than 26 hours in a stardew valley year...

every single day is a time limit, a really strict one, and it burns me the hell out

I feel the opposite, the fact outer wilds wastes time is the reason it stresses me out, stardew gives me a progression dopamine boost.

its you describing the exact thought prosses that causes me to jump into the sand pillar

6:51 yep that BSO is fucking awesome.

lol the spoiler at 21:35

Listening to you talk about outer wilds makes me fall inove with a game i already love! Can i rest myself so i can play it for rhe first time again?

4:36 I have heard that friendship hearts never goes down after it is earned (unless you got a divorce). Once I knew that I felt less anxious about just focusing on specific things and not worry about checking in with everyone all the time.

great video!! glad it's not just me that get mildly stressed by stardew :) now i wanna sink a load of hours into outer wilds lmao

this ROCKS bud, real good stuff looking forward to more x

You trying to plant seeds on untilled soil was the most stressful thing I’ve seen so far

15:59 🐷

Excellent video! Great use of different music in the background to highlight how you felt about each point. Really emphasised it. Your editing is fantastic, great work mate

"Time is the only resource you can't get back" damn I wasn't expecting an existential crisis with my gaming analysis

Hell yeah new upload!