It looks like Stardew Valley's multiplayer is so close to completion that Eric Barone is willing to give an approximate date for release. In a tweet on April 10th, the developer said, "Update on Stardew Valley multiplayer: still making good progress on fixing bugs, if all goes well it should be ready in about a month."

This is the first time since the multiplayer was announced that Barone has given anything more than a vague update on the development progress of the game mode.

Stardew Valley was easily one of the biggest releases in 2016 and has continued with its success since that point, selling 3.5 million copies to date. Barone, who goes by ConcernedApe and is the one man development team for the game, pushes out consistent updates which add wonderful depth to the game that is already easy to sink hundreds of hours into. One of the biggest updates announced at has been for multiplayer within the game, and Barone has been updating players on its progress for nearly two years, making fans of the game eat up every single little update the developer tweets out.

The highly anticipated game mode will not only include multiplayer, so that game players can share farms with their friends and develop new ways to play the game, but will also include updates to the single player game. Barone has said that he is keeping some things secret, but players should expect some changes to the game in it's current state in addition to the completion of multiplayer.

In a recent interview with GQ the developer shared how he built Stardew Valley all alone, and how he obsessively tested the game for bugs to ensure that players would have a good experience on the first day of release. Ultimately, this attention to detail likely helped make the game the explosive hit that it is.

In some cases, anticipation and then let down has been shown to frustrate those waiting for the game, which Barone is running the risk of with the massive update taking so long to complete.

However, while the multiplayer game mode has been taking longer than many players expected, the developer's attention to detail is ideally going to leave players happy when it is finally pushed out to the public. Plus, nothing ensures that gamers will play the mode right away than a healthy dose of anticipation.