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Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, with the farming sim dethroning Portal 2 after 14 years at the top

www.gamesradar.com

edit: replaced article with a better one

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Schedule 1 has already appeared in the top 10 above the original Portal

Excellent game tbh way better than it has any right to be even in early access
- What is Schedule 1?
  
  Kinda like a goofy breaking bad
LETS GO (one day I will play this gem I promise)
- One day I won't let my worst perfectionist instincts take over and will actually make it past year 1 instead of resetting the same day over and over again until I get the right RNG to get a strong weapon early for free or something before quitting and feeling tired of the game
  Maybe I should try playing co-op so resetting won't be an option
Well deserved!
Portal 2 clears stardew as a 'game'. What I mean by this: I actually finished Portal 2 & the co-op story. I never felt compelled to finish stardew.
Love both, but this is only happened because portal 2 is old and rating games is useless. apples & oranges etc.
- I finished Portal 2 cuz it was shorter but was compelled to put more hours and energy into stardew thus it clears Portal 2 as a game.
  Edit: being a bit less shitposty, using game clear compulsion is just a really odd metric. Arguably my favorite game of all time, Rimworld, I've never been compelled to complete but I think it is a far more interesting and compelling game and interactive experience than I found Portal 2. If anything Portal 2 is something that I completed because it was more compelling as a 'narrative' but the gameplay loop of stardew was more interesting making it the better game. If anything I'd argue that Portal 2 was mostly there for being the polished version of something that felt inspired, much like ToTK.
  The metric you used is something I could make see as an argument for saying something is a better narrative, but I think most people wouldn't define games but desire to complete, especially since many people's favorite games or genres are defined by inability or extreme difficulty and deterrence of completion.
  
  I’ve played 600+ hours of Baldurs Gate 3 across multiple characters, never finished it. Played well over a thousand hours of BG2 and BG1 combined, only finished them each once. I agree completion isn’t the best metric, but also even for narrative games. Not everyone plays them the same and even the completion rating for games like that is really small.

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