Fan-made Stardew Valley smart watch face is excellent

If you’re a fan of Stardew Valley and you have a watch that can use WearOS, you are in luck today. In a post shared to the Stardew Valley subreddit, user brueqqe shared a visual of the custom WearOS face they created inspired by the game. Stardew Valley has become one of the most popular games over the last decade and was created almost entirely by a solo developer. But that hasn’t stopped fans from creating their own content and add-ons for the game as well, such as a recent Baldur’s Gate 3 inspired mod.

Fan-made Stardew Valley custom WearOS watch face is absolutely perfect

If you’re not familiar with WearOS, it is the Google operating system for smart watches. Unfortunately, not for Apple Watches. Sorry to any Apple Watch wearers, this is not the post for you. But essentially WearOS is a system where anyone can create an app for a variety of digital watches. The custom face has all the basics you would expect from a watch, as well as an icon to tell you the current season, day and night backgrounds, a step tracker, day progress, and more. The custom face is available for free download.

The creator, brueqque, added some great touches to the design. The watch battery and phone battery are shown as what Stardew Valley players will recognize as the health and energy bars. The bars change color as they deplete, eventually showing the exhaustion icon when below 15%. What would normally be the gold counter instead tracks steps. If you have a calendar event, the journal icon will appear and act as a shortcut to open the calendar app on your watch.

In the comments, fans are ecstatic. There is a fair amount of people wishing this face would work on their various watches, such as Apple Watch users and apparently Garmin wearers, but otherwise, this post is receiving nothing but praise. At the time of writing, it has over eighteen thousand upvotes, and over two hundred comments. One user commented: “I don’t have a smartwatch. I don’t need a smartwatch. I don’t want a smartwatch. Until I see the Stardew Valley faces for them people make. I want one desperately.”

Considering Stardew Valley has been around since 2016, with the developer still pushing updates rather than working on their next game, it’s amazing that there is still such an active fan base. I cannot think of many games that are nine years old and still inspire fans to use their free time to create custom content that doesn’t even have anything to do with playing the game. But it makes sense, Stardew Valley is not your average game.

Stardew Valley

February 26, 2016

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