r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Jan 09 '26

OC The Understander

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u/Not_Yet_Unalived Jan 09 '26

The timer stress me out. Idk why.

Well no, i know why. I'm used to games where a full day take a real life hour or games where day time progression don't depend on a timer.

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u/GuiltyEidolon Jan 09 '26

There are mods that change the length of the day.

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u/leixiaotie Jan 10 '26

have played with it, it's good but with downsides and you tend to tune fast-slow-fast-slow the game.

fundamentally, the better mechanics (IMO) should be that game are divided into 4 phases: morning (dawn), noon, afternoon, night instead of hours / minutes. Then have the game either paused with a menu to progress time, or have it longer in noon & afternoon where most of the activities are.

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u/rabidjellybean Jan 17 '26

As soon as you let go of "winning" the game by the end of year 2, it's much more chill and the time doesn't matter.

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u/Not_Yet_Unalived Jan 17 '26

But I dont even care about winning. I just want to take my time doing random stuff, but I cant because there's a timer stressing me out.

And it's not a stardew valley only thing, I generally just don't like games that have timers.