Stardew Valley for Switch Feels Like the Farming Game's Ideal Home

I missed one-man-developer Eric Barone's Stardew Valley the first time round, back in early 2016 when the quaint farming simulation appeared without ceremony on Windows. By the time I realized I'd pulled a Gob Bluth, publisher Chucklefish had announced a version for Nintendo's totable Switch, so I waited. And now it's here, a downloadable $14.99 version I can take anywhere and that plays like all the others -- no kludgy smartphone or tablet touchscreen compromises. I'm still getting my sea legs, but the idea of rolling up my sleeves and, as Voltaire put it, cultivating my garden, is appealing for all kinds of reasons. I live in Iowa near the edge of a midsize city circled by rolling farmland.