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adjl posted...

It got some attention when the trailer first came out, but nobody's really talked about it since because there haven't (to my knowledge) been any updates.

This.

The problem is, he basically just announced he was working on it. But we have no idea whether it's coming out this year, next year, or five years from now. We don't really know how far into development it is, and we know almost nothing about it. Even the trailer doesn't tell us much, because as people pointed out it's basically just using the Stardew engine with different graphical assets, which might just be how he's brainstorming ideas rather than what the finished product is intended to be.

We don't even know if it's the next game he's going to release, because he's mentioned he's also working on a third game at the same time (which we know absolutely nothing about).

(We also don't know whether or not Haunted Chocolatier is set in the same universe as Stardew - the dev has mentioned in the past that one of the games he's working on is set in the same universe and implied that the other one isn't - but we don't know which one this one is.)



To be fair, though, Stardew is awesome (I'm literally playing it right now - I'm on Year 4 Fall and saving up for the gold clock which is the last thing I need for full completion on this run), so I'm more than willing to give whatever new games he comes up with a chance, because they have better odds of being good than most games the mainstream triple-A devs are shitting out these days. And the idea of being a whimsical candy shop owner feels cool - even if I'm going to play it as if it's a Willy Wonka origin story RPG.

The assumption is that the game is probably just going to be an updated spiritual adaptation of Recettear, though - in the same way that Stardew is basically just Harvest Moon.