[Otternonsenz]

I can tell you from the farm my wife and I operate (currently in our 7th in game year), you will eventually become the giant factory farm to get to the end game.

But that’s why I love Stardew Valley in a different way than my wife. It hits the comfy aspect for her, a light dating sim, plus the combat is light enough that she’s gotten good at it there than she does in other games. For me, I get to optimize farm layout and selling strategies (like me realizing after all this time in-game that Slime Eggs are a high dollar item and totally should have gotten a slime hutch much sooner)