I Hope Haunted Chocolatier Is Even Gayer Than Stardew Valley

thegamer.com:

Stardew Valley is a very queer game, and has long since become a safe space for LGBTQ+ people to explore their identity in a world that is free from the prejudices of modern life, yet it also isn’t afraid to explore the depth of relationships and hardships that come with growing into who you want to be. Farm life isn’t always a walk in the park you see.

I’ve spent hundreds of hours with ConcernedApe’s masterpiece, playing it long before I came out as a trans woman as I stepped into the shoes of a lesbian farmer who was eager to raise chickens, make money, and smooch all of the cute girls in Pelican Town. She succeeded and now has far too much money to spend and cows to sell.

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Despite allowing us to pursue queer relationships and even have children as a same-sex couple, the narrative arcs and character storylines of Stardew Valley seldom delved further into what it means to be a queer, or making it a part of the experience that enriches the world beyond something relatively heteronormative. I love the game so much, but you’d need to rely on mods and your own imagination to make things truly fruity, injecting the world with your own personal subtext. Characters would marry anyone, abiding by playersexual whims instead of having a preference that was baked into their very design.

The studio’s next game - Haunted Chocolatier - already feels destined to expand upon everything Stardew Valley managed to achieve in the realm of inclusivity. While we don’t know a huge amount about the game right now beyond the fact you’ll be selling spooky chocolates, fighting monsters, and existing across an idyllic town; that’s more than enough to speculate that meeting