History YMMV / StardewValley

* TheScrappy: While her personality does improve considerably if you bond with her, Haley's RichBitch tendencies really rub a lot of players the wrong way, so much so they actually go out of their way to give her nasty presents like seaweed and lumps of coal.

* MemeticMutation: Abigail really likes rocks. [[Explanation]] If one gives Abigail gemstones, she'll reply as if you were giving her food. This is likely unintentional, but many people, such as WebVideo/ProJared, treat Abigail as if she eats the rocks, making her more endearing to some.[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: Abigail really likes rocks. [[Explanation]] If one gives Abigail gemstones, she'll reply as if you were giving her food. This is likely unintentional, but many people, such as WebVideo/ProJared, treat Abigail as if she eats the rocks, making her more endearing to some.[[//note]]

* XMeetsY: VideoGame/HarvestMoon meets VideoGame/Terraria.

XMeetsY: VideoGame/HarvestMoon meets VideoGame/Terraria

** Shane is very popular for this reason as well. He works a terrible dead-end job that he absolutely hates, he's obviously depressed and hopeless with his lot in life, he self-medicates with alcohol, and he's very cold and standoffish to you at first, but he will warm up to you considerably if you take the time to get to know him. His character arc ''seems'' so much like that of a potential love interest that many first-time players were surprised that he isn't an actual bachelor - the farmer marrying him and rescuing him from a life of drudgery stocking shelves at [=JojaMart=] [[spoiler: or unemployment, if you complete the Community Center]] feels like the natural conclusion to his story arc. As a result, there have been loads of requests for [=ConcernedApe=] to make him into a bachelor in a future update, and these seem to have won him over; he describes himself as "already on board the shane train" in response to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/4b8s7v/im_concernedape_developer_of_stardew_valley_ask/d16zeh5 a question on his AMA thread]].

** Shane is very popular for this reason as well. He works a terrible dead-end job that he absolutely hates, he self-medicates with alcohol, he's obviously depressed and hopeless with his lot in life, and he's very cold and standoffish to you at first, but he will warm up to you considerably if you take the time to get to know him. His character arc ''seems'' so much like that of a potential love interest that many first-time players were surprised that he isn't an actual bachelor - the farmer marrying him and rescuing him from a life of drudgery stocking shelves at [=JojaMart=] [[spoiler: or unemployment, if you complete the Community Center]] feels like the natural conclusion to his story arc. As a result, there have been loads of requests for [=ConcernedApe=] to make him into a bachelor in a future update, and these seem to have won him over; he describes himself as "already on board the shane train" in response to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/4b8s7v/im_concernedape_developer_of_stardew_valley_ask/d16zeh5 a question on his AMA thread]].

* TheWoobie: What attracts a lot of players to Penny. The cute girl admits to feeling shame about living in a squalid trailer instead of a real house, but what's worse she also has to share it with her aggressive, irresponsible, alcoholic and unemployed mother. Many players marry her just out of feeling sorry for her and wanting her to come live as a farmer's wife. One (notably very well-received) player feedback to [=CorneredApe=] on the game's official subreddit even suggested allowing Penny to move into Leah's unoccupied home in the event that the player marries Leah.

* TheScrappy: While her personality does improve considerably if you bond with her, Haley's RichBitch tendencies really rub a lot of players the wrong way.

** That said, there is an easier, postgame way: [[spoiler: If Grandpa's spirit evaluates you and lights all four candles on Grandpa's Shrine after the end of Year 2, you receive the Statue of Perfection, which gives you 2-8 pieces of Iridium Ore every day.]]

** Previous to Patch 1.06, there was a glitch/developer oversight which meant [[PerkyGoth Abigail]] would appreciatively ask the player "How did you know I was hungry?" when being given various non-food objects, including gemstones, making her seem like an ExtremeOmnivore. In the updated spouse dialogue in Patch 1.06, [[http://i.imgur.com/Nrctfhg.jpg this seems to have become]] an AscendedMeme.

* ThatOneSidequest: Mining for Iridium is a LuckBasedMission where the best odds are on lowest ten levels of the mine filled with DemonicSpiders and even then you can mine them for literal months without getting a single scrap of ore. Certain merchants can sell the material or its products, but only at ridiculous costs (10,000 G for a single iridium sprinkler). Cracking open geodes can produce it if you're lucky, but you're still looking at years before you finally finish all of your tools, which may be on purpose but doesn't make it any less frustrating, especially when a single day of solid grinding can get you enough gold to finish literally every other tool.

** Previous to Patch 1.06, there was a glitch/developer oversight which meant [[PerkyGoth Abigail]] would appreciatively ask the player "How did you know I was hungry?" when being given a gemstone, making her seem like an ExtremeOmnivore. In the updated spouse dialogue in Patch 1.06, [[http://i.imgur.com/Nrctfhg.jpg this seems to have become]] an AscendedMeme.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Finishing the Community Centre bundles will result in [[spoiler:the nature spirits restoring the building to it's former glory and the [=JoJaMart=] cronies being run out of town by the community by Pierre rallying the townsfolk behind him in a boycott which convinces them to leave, or alternatively by ''[[MegatonPunch dramatically punching Morris through the ceiling]]''.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Finishing the Community Centre bundles will result in the nature spirits restoring the building to it's former glory and the [=JoJaMart=] cronies being run out of town by the community by Pierre [[spoiler:rallying the townsfolk behind him in a boycott which convinces them to leave, or alternatively by ''[[MegatonPunch dramatically punching Morris through the ceiling]]''.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Tons strewn about the game.
** One of the nights where Linus is rummaging through the trashcans for food. After talking to the player (they can choose the second option and get a nicer outcome), Linus will go through Gus's trashcans. Gus will tell him that he doesn't need to look through trashcans for food. He will give him some zucchini fritters and promises to give him food whenever he needs it.

** The winter music is pretty catchy to a lot of streamers who have been playing it on Twitch as well.

* EarWorm: Most of the game's music applies, but in particular the Fall music is particularly catchy.

* BrokenBase: The decision to release the game with single-player mode only, with the much-vaunted co-op mode to follow several months later as a free DLC, has been controversial ever since [=ConcernedApe=] first floated the idea, and the official announcement has triggered support and criticism. The co-op mode has been the focal point for most of the game's hype from the very beginning (finally, a chance to play a ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''-style farming simulator with multiplayer!), and many people have commented expressing their enthusiasm for playing alongside their loved ones; on the other hand, many prospective players always intended to stick to single-player, and were far more excited at a successor to ''Harvest Moon'' with added gameplay elements the original wouldn't dare include (most notably same-sex relationships), and were vocal in their desire to ''not'' have to wait several more ''months'' (if not longer - [=ConcernedApe=] has yet to meet a single deadline he's set for the game's development) for a gameplay mode they never planned to use. The latter group ultimately won out, and not without the former group expressing some... disappointment at [=ConcernedApe=]'s decision.