Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there's like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I'm seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.

Oh definitely. It's really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn't realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, was heavily inspired by* harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past

If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years