Coming from a SuperData Research report...
It may seem that Stardew Valley followed the path of many indie games. Eric Barone, or ConcernedApe, the developer, worked on the game in his spare time. In 2012, the game was published on Steam Greenlight, previously standard path for indie games to get onto the Steam platform. Finally, Stardew Valley released on PC on February 26, 2016. However, unlike most other indie games, it sold 800K copies in just one month. This was an amazing success, but the community made it even more special. Just a few days after launch, Redditors created a thread (now deleted, but screenshots can be found here) to help people who were pirating the game to purchase legitimate copies instead. This was unprecedented, and Stardew Valley’s community continues to be highly engaged with the developer. The game has now been ported to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch and has sold over 3.5M units. On top of this, the developer is releasing a highly requested multiplayer mode in early 2018.
We know the Switch version has gotten a lot of love, and the game was a huge hit on PC as well. I'm sure the game still has a couple more million in sales under its belt!
from GoNintendo
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