Stardew
Valley Switch port is going «very well» with last of the bugs fixed, says Chucklefish Games
Not exact matches
Stardew
Valley isn't exactly the most visually ambitious game to hit the
Switch, but still it's good to see that
porting the game to the relatively new
Switch doesn't seem to have changed much.
What this actually means is quite little at the time being, as Campo Santo will continue to support Firewatch — there's a
Switch port in the works — and they're still hard at work on In the
Valley of Gods, which they promise they'll finish despite now working at a company with a bit of a (false) reputation for never, ever releasing games.
That said, it's no surprise Stardew
Valley took the top spot, considering how excited people were for the
Switch port.
This is because Barone made it clear that after canceling the Wii U
port of Stardew
Valley, he intends to give fans the option of grabbing the game for the Nintendo
Switch instead.
The Nintendo
Switch ports of Rocket League, Doom and Stardew
Valley prove that popular games will come to popular hardware.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Stardew
Valley was expected to be
ported to the
Switch this Year.
The
Switch port was handled by developer SickHead Games and marks the first release of Stardew
Valley on a portable platform, as well as a Nintendo console.
At first, the multiplayer mode will only be available on Stardew
Valley's PC version, but if it goes off without any major hitches, Chucklefish will then bring the mode over to the game's console
ports (including the
Switch).
Eric «ConceredApe» Barone, the one - man development team behind the popular indie farming sim Stardew
Valley, has announced that the highly - anticipated Nintendo
Switch port of the game will officially launch later this week on Thursday, October 5th.
In addition to the
Switch port, Chucklefish is also still working on the promised multiplayer mode for Stardew
Valley, a mode which will allow players to bring up to three of their friends into their game.
While Barone naturally had a hand in crafting the Nintendo
Switch port of Stardew
Valley, he also gave a shout out to fellow indie developer Sickhead Games which did a bulk of the work in getting the
Switch port up and running.
The
Switch has also become popular for a growing number of independent games like Celeste, Stardew
Valley, and Darkest Dungeon, as well as
ports of older games like Skyrim and Bayonetta.
The Stardew
Valley port on the
Switch was developed by Sickhead Games and will be published by Chucklefish.
I decided to leave out
ports, so as much I as liked playing Kero Blaster on PS4 and Stardew
Valley and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the
Switch this year, those are not included.