Farming simulatorStardew Valleyis generally considered visually and technically impressive, especially for a game primarily designed, written, and programmed by one person. Although he later hired a team to work on the major Version 1.5 content expansion, developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone did most of the work onStardew Valleyon his own. Despite its high quality,Stardew Valleydoes occasionally produce glitches, which are generally preserved and cataloged by fans and range from the hilarious to the horrifying.
Stardew Valley,a life simulator in which the player inherits their late grandfather’s farm and is challenged to restore Pelican Town’s community center, includes a number of gameplay elements such as farming, foraging, crafting, cooking, and combat. One element is talking to Pelican Town’s residents and giving them gifts to raise their friendship level with the farmer. There are around two dozen characters who can be befriended, including six bachelors and six bachelorettes, all of whom the farmer can potentiallyromance or marry.
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On the r/StardewValley Reddit community, a user going by Agent_meme21 shared a particularly bizarre glitch involving the character ofKent, an ex-soldier who returns to the Valley in the player’s second in-game year. The glitch causes multiple, partially transparent versions of Kent’s conversation portrait to hover in the air above the Silo on the user’s farm. The glitch features several expressions available to Kent, including his default neutral face and the wide smile he sports when he eventually grows to trust the player.
Commenters on Reddit immediately found the glitch amusing, joking that Kent was a hologram, a ghost, or an Artificial Intelligence secretly running the farm behind the player’s back. Others took a more serious tack and connected the glitch toKent’s experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder, which are exemplified in a scene between Kent and his wife Jodi where Kent is disturbed by the sound of popcorn popping. Still others farcically claimed that “ghost Kent” was a deliberate, extremely rare event that players could encounter if they met certain requirements.
Unlike an earlier glitch reported on Reddit, whichturned every game’s icon into that ofStardew Valleydue to a Windows 11 error, the origins of the “ghost Kent” glitch remain somewhat mysterious. The prevailing theory is that the player’s particularStardew Valleysave file might have become corrupted, and they were encouraged to test their file’s integrity as soon as possible. Others suggested that they should upload save data to the cloud and re-download the game, as they theorized that the graphical assets for something on the farm had accidentally become replaced with those of Kent.
Stardew Valleyis currently available for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Switch, and Xbox One.
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