{"id":91004,"date":"2026-10-12T07:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91004"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:36:31","slug":"haunted-chocolatier-is-for-the-people-in-stardew-valley-that-go-into-the-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91004","title":{"rendered":"Haunted Chocolatier Is For \u201cThe People In Stardew Valley That Go Into The Mines\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haunted Chocolatier, the second game from Stardew Valley creator, Eric Barone, has been in development for more than five years, having been announced in October 2021. While there&#8217;s no official word on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/haunted-chocolatier-release-date-trailer-news\/1100-6535251\/\">Haunted Chocolatier release date<\/a>, Barone has been discussing the development of the game, including who it&#8217;s for and more about the playstyle. In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/a-decade-after-stardew-valley-eric-barone-is-still-going-it-alone\">GQ<\/a>, Barone said that Haunted Chocolatier is &#8220;more of an action RPG,&#8221; although it is still what he&#8217;d call &#8220;a town game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The main focus is more about adventuring, finding equipment and getting more powerful. There are monsters, there are boss fights. It&#8217;s for the people in Stardew Valley that go into the mines,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/kJy7LF789lo  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauntedchocolatier.net\">Haunted Chocolatier website<\/a>, Barone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/haunted-chocolatier-long-development-comes-down-to-chasing-perfection\/\">regularly apologizes<\/a> for the game &#8220;taking so long,&#8221; but reassures fans that he&#8217;s making good progress on the game. &#8220;I won&#8217;t compromise on the quality of the game by rushing it or releasing it too early,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, now that we have more information on what the game might entail, the wait feels like it will be worth it. According to GQ, Barone has &#8220;returned to isolation&#8221; to focus on finishing Haunted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haunted Chocolatier, the second game from Stardew Valley creator, Eric Barone, has been in development for more than five years, having been announced in October 2021. While there&#8217;s no official word on the Haunted Chocolatier release date, Barone has been discussing the development of the game, including who it&#8217;s for and more about the playstyle&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":91006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91007,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91004\/revisions\/91007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}