Gaming: Eric Barone Says He'd 'love To' Make Stardew Valley 2 Someday: 'a...

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Stardew Valley debuted 10 years ago this month, but creator Eric Barone is still hammering away on it. He's also working on a whole new game called Haunted Chocolatier. It's a lot for one guy, and so you might reasonably think that there's not much room in there for thoughts of a full-on Stardew Valley sequel. But maybe there is.

"I would love to [make Stardew Valley 2] because it would just be fun to work on a whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012, when I started working with Stardew Valley," Barone said in a wide-ranging interview with IGN. "There's something fun about the number of possibilities in a whole new world, which I think would be fun for me. It'd be fun for my team. We'd be really excited about it."

Barone said one concern he has about a potential sequel is that Stardew Valley fans are really attached to Pelican Town and its villagers: "I do fear a little bit that if it's a whole new cast of characters, people might feel put off by that." Another possible approach would be to use the same cast in a new adventure, he continued, although that approach would leave him "stuck with the same thing," presumably meaning that fans would miss the familiar confines of Pelican Town. "I'd have to think about that one," Barone said.

Source: PC Gamer