Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, released the highly anticipated 1.6 update for his wildly popular title Stardew Valley on March 19th. This update brings a lot of new game content, including new festivals, events, dialogs, pets, items, end-game skill system, even a new type of farm, etc.
According to SteamDB, the game peaked at 155,295 concurrent players. Her previous record of 94 thousand active players was set in January 2021. This highlight makes it the most played game in the Farming Sim category on Steam. It is followed by Farming Simulator 22 (105k), Dave the Diver (98.4k), Farming Simulator 19 (59.4k) and Core Keeper (34.5k).
Stardew Valley can also be regarded as the leading title in the Life Sim genre, excluding the sandbox RPG Broke Protocol, which hit a peak of 147 thousand active players in March 2019. Following ConcernedApe's game in this category are Crusader's Kings III (98.8k), The Sims 4 (96.3k), VPet (85.5k), and Nobody — The Turnaround (82.5k).
Eric Barone announced last month that Stardew Valley had surpassed 30 million copies sold, 19 million of which were sold on PC alone. This makes it one of the most successful indie titles of all time, to which the developer stated that he is eternally grateful to the players for making this all possible. Stardew Valley took eight years from its release on February 26, 2016 to cross the 30 million copies sold mark.
List of the most successful indie titles by number of copies sold:
- Human: Fall Flat — over 50 million copies
- Terraria — 44,5 million copies
- Palworld — 25 million players
- Castle Crashers — over 20 million copies
- Garry's Mod — 20 million copies
- Rust — over 16 million copies
- Valheim — over 12 million copies.
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