Stardew Valley — Steam Gift

Stardew Valley: your own farm, a cozy valley and a Steam gift with no hassle

Stardew Valley is a pixel-art farming life sim built almost single-handedly by Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) and released on 26 February 2016. You inherit your grandfather's overgrown plot on the edge of Pelican Town, quit your cubicle job at the Joja corporation and start from scratch: clear the field, plant your first parsnip seeds, build a coop and slowly turn the wasteland into a thriving homestead. Nothing rushes you through a story — you set the pace. Here you get the complete game as a Steam gift, including every free update the developer has been adding for nearly a decade.

What you actually do in the valley

Stardew Valley only pretends to be “a game about crops.” In practice it's a dozen interwoven activities:

• Farming. Seasonal crops, a greenhouse for year-round harvests, artisan jams and wines, sprinkler automation and auto-grabbers — you can tune the farm economy endlessly.
• Animals. Chickens, cows, goats, sheep, truffle-hunting pigs and even a dinosaur from a found egg. Treat them well and they produce top-quality goods.
• Mines and the Skull Cavern. Descend through fights with slimes, bats and golems, mine ore and gems, upgrade your gear. The Skull Cavern out in the Calico Desert is a separate, far deadlier dungeon.
• Fishing. Its own cast-and-reel mini-game, legendary fish, crab pots and fish ponds.
• Villagers and relationships. 30+ characters with schedules, personalities and stories. You can date six bachelors and six bachelorettes, marry, and later raise children.
• The Community Center. The big “story fork”: restore the abandoned center with the forest Junimos — or sell out to Joja and build a soulless supermarket instead.

Which edition you get

This part is refreshingly simple: Stardew Valley has no paid DLC and no separate “gold/deluxe” editions. There is one version of the game. ConcernedApe has publicly promised that all past and future updates and expansions will stay free forever — and he keeps that word. So buying the gift gives you the entire current game outright, with no upsells or season passes.

Update 1.6 and why the game outlives many new releases

The major 1.6 update arrived on PC on 19 March 2024 and noticeably expanded the valley. It added a new farm type — the Meadowlands Farm with rich grass and starter chickens — a Mastery system with powerful perks and items once you max your skills, the Desert Festival, a couple of fishing mini-festivals, new cabin variants for co-op and a seasonal world-map look. The 1.6.x patches piled on dozens of alternate mine layouts, new cut-scenes and cosmetics. For a 2016 game that's rare: it keeps growing years later, and all of it is included in your copy for free.

How we deliver the gift

This is a Steam gift, not a key code. The mechanic is as gentle as it gets:

• You provide a Steam friend invite link (s.team/p/...) and your account region.
• Our bot adds itself to your friends, sends the gift and automatically leaves once it's delivered. You don't accept anything manually.
• Steam Guard is not required — the gift goes through even without it.
• Delivery usually takes a couple of minutes after checkout, though it's not a hard guarantee — occasionally a bit longer.

For Steam to accept the gift, two conditions must hold: your account region matches the gift region, and Stardew Valley is not already in that account's library (Steam won't hand over a gift for a game you already own). Your profile must also allow friend invites — otherwise the bot simply can't reach you.

What it runs on

Stardew Valley is light on hardware and runs happily even on modest laptops and on the Steam Deck — it's officially Deck-verified and comfortable with a controller. It supports up to 4-player co-op on a shared farm (each player needs their own copy). Saves and achievements work as usual on Steam.

If you love cozy games like this

Stardew Valley long ago became the benchmark of the cozy-sim genre, so if it clicks for you, check out related titles in our catalog: the atmospheric underwater dive sim Dave the Diver, the survival-and-crafting sandbox Terraria from indie studio Re-Logic, and the warm farming island of Coral Island. They all chase the same feeling — quietly building your own little world at your own pace.

The short version

You're getting the full Stardew Valley as a Steam gift: one version, every free update, bot delivery with no Steam Guard and no manual request to accept. The key things are entering the correct account region and making sure the game isn't already in your library. After that it's just you, the crops and the quiet of the valley.