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VIDEO GAME REVIEW: WHY IS A STAR Stardew Valley is an entertaining video game where you own a farm and earn money so that you can improve it. To earn money, you can not only cultivate crops and raise animals but can also go searching for ores, foraging for wild vegetables, and fishing for sea creatures. In Stardew Valley, your farm is right next to a small town whose inhabitants you can interact with and become friends with. There are also festivals twice a month, ranging from summer luaus to winter ice fishing competitions, with each festival comprised of unique minigames. Needless to say, Stardew Valley?s By Luke V. 8-bit animation style belies its truly in-depth gameplay. Overall, Stardew Valley is mostly wholesome, with the characters in the game all displaying kind, friendly behavior to the player and one another. There are a few moral issues in the game, with alcohol and mysticism as small plot points of the game?s story, but the discerning Christian can easily identify and avoid these moral shortfalls. The general wholesomeness and the amount of content in the game make Stardew Valley an incredibly fun, kid friendly farming simulator that I would wholeheartedly recommend playing.