Stardew Valley: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Stardew Valley is the kind of game that you can play forever. No matter what you've accomplished in it, there's always something more to pursue. While that sounds pretty neat, it is also the primary reason that I was too intimidated to start playing, instead letting it rot in my Switch library for nearly a decade. I purchased the game back in 2017 when it first launched on the console, and then I let it lie untouched in my periphery until a friend from work insisted that I finally try it. Over 85 hours of gameplay later, I managed to extricate myself from what I now consider to be an all-timer. Stardew Valley is what happens when you let a fan of classic farming sims create a love letter to the genre. With only a passing fling with Friends of Mineral Town under my belt, I have precious little experience with this side of the cozy gaming spectrum, so I wasn't able to fully appreciate all of the decisions that made Stardew Valley. However, the way it kept my mind in a chokeho...