I know I tend to post about racing more often than not but figured I’d show something my daughter and I have been working on. We play a lot of Switch games together and have done since she was wee. She’s now six and showed more interest in things other than Mario Kart and Mario Party. So we bounced around with Animal Crossing for a bit and tried other games but nothing really clicked.

Last November she pointed at Stardew Valley and asked what that was. So we promptly loaded up a farm (after spending way too long designing her character I might add) and we were met with this…

Welcome to Unicorn Fields Farm.

After talking her through the controls we started making a wee clearing. She wanted to work on her own seeds separately so we independently worked a wee space for a field and we went through a few days pottering about. She was hooked. Fast forward a few seasons and we get to this…

We have animals at this stage with chickens, cows, sheep, a few pigs. A decent field for growing crops and we have a steady supply of money coming in. But she is scared of the mines and refuses to go to them so I tend to do those whilst she looks after the crops and talks to all the folk in the nearby town.

Zip forward to the weekend there just before we headed into winter in our fourth year and you can see where we were at.

We have a restaurant she decided to make at the top left (purely decorative unless she forces my character to sit at one of the tables after making a reservation) , the greenhouse has been rebuilt and is producing ancient fruit which immediately goes into kegs in the shed beside the greenhouse for pure profit. We still care for the animals, the community centre is complete, we are venturing into pond life with a few of the warp totems unlocked.

Her aim now is to decorate the interior of each of our houses (although she has spoke about moving her house to the bottom right and making that her own area) whereas I’m talking about going into pig farming for maximum profit from truffles and truffle oil.

We have spent 120 hours on this farm and all of that has been together. I’ve absolutely loved every minute of it and yes that has been over six months but we’ve been taking our time and it’s been a blast (despite there not being any tractors).

Stardew Valley is our game and we love it.