Crocus Field

A cozy visual novel where you get closer to the bachelors and bachelorettes of Stardew Valley over a week in winter. Choose a romantic or platonic story for each.

Features

• 23,500 words / 2 hour playtime
• 12 short routes, with platonic/romantic choice for each route
• Themes range from cutesy romance to emotionally raw
• Music & SFX

Contains spoilers for all six-heart events in Stardew Valley.

The game explores topics which might be distressing: Includes depictions of alcohol use, grief, depression, quarter-life crisis,  family issues, roughhousing,  and religion/spirituality. Suitable for older teens and up.

Story

It's been a year since beginning your life as a farmer in Stardew Valley, but in the doldrums of late winter you find yourself isolating and stagnating. Picking some tasks to do, you venture out into the forests, mountains, and town for resources. Along the way, you bump into your favorite people, and grow ever closer to them. Do you choose to hear their secrets as friends, or make a move on them as something more?

Credits

Story, writing, portraits, backgrounds, programming, GUI - Zoeboe

Backgrounds, beta-reading - Kat Tuesday

Platonic-route beta-reading - Logan Johnson

Audio Engineer - Kylie Siaw

GUI - Novelkit

Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Ruiqui Zhao / The Snow Flakes

The Fly Guy Five / A Walk in Marais

Josef Bel Habib / Are There Angels?

Yonder Dale / Simple Gestures

Spectacles Wallet and Watch / So Kind

Von Meyer / Christmas Waltz

View Points / Quebec Mornings

Pandaraps, Surfer Dave / Day In (Instrumental Version)

Jon E. Amber / Softly, Gently

Heath Cantu / One Little Flower

Autumn Cheek / Asking Too Much

Sun Chime / Snow Over City Hall

Penny Key / Teddy's Lullaby

Lil.Y / Sleeping Kittens

Johannes Bornlöf / Corpus

Etienne Roussel / Dreamology

Rupert Sachs / My Little One

Sun Chime / Little Did He Know

Sight of Wonders / Quiet as a Butterfly

Josef Bel Habib / Near And Far (Scaled Down Version)