Stardew Valley's solo developer Eric Barone, better known as ConcernedApe, is a busy man. In addition to continued development on the Stardew Valley, which has spent a full decade receiving a long succession of major updates, he's also hard at work on his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. Stardew Valley's successor bears some obvious resemblances to the hit farming simulator, but it also comes with plenty of new ideas and a slightly darker atmosphere.
With so much on his plate, though, some fans have started to fear that it could be a very long time before Haunted Chocolatier even gets close to completion. For anyone wondering how progress on the game is going, ConcernedApe offered an update on Haunted Chocolatier's development in August that you might have missed.
On the official Haunted Chocolatier website, ConcernedApe added a post titled "checking in" that briefly addresses the current progress on the title. While he doesn't include any specifics or suggest an overall timeline, he notes that he's "been very productive on this project lately" despite his other obligations, calling work on Haunted Chocolatier the thing he's "most eager and driven to do."
That doesn't mean it will necessarily be coming any time soon,...
