Stardew Valley by Day, Don't Starve by Night

[Reader’s Guide: Stardew Valley + Don’t Starve. Some game mechanics will be changed. The heroine is also new to both games, so most of the rules will be explained in the story, and the references will be introduced gradually. If you haven’t played the games, you can read this as a regular farming story or a fourth-wall-breaking survival story.] Ellie was forcibly dropped into the Stardew Valley game System, where she would have to spend the rest of her life. Fortunately, it was a simulation game with a cozy, “relaxing” vibe. Playing as someone who had inherited an abandoned farm, Ellie moved to Pelican Town in the countryside. Every day, she was busy farming, chopping trees, fishing, and exploring the mines. She got involved with the townsfolk, explored graves with a purple-haired girl, learned to rummage through trash cans from a homeless man, and crouched on the ground to catch bugs alongside the children… Little by little, she went from having nothing to living a comfortable life. There was no nine-to-nine-six grind or rat race in Stardew Valley, and Ellie actually felt happy… if only she hadn’t also been bound to another game. Every day at two in the morning, while the people of Pelican Town slept soundly, they had no idea that their new farmer was in another desolate land, utterly unlike Stardew Valley. In the survival game called Don’t Starve, staying alive was a struggle at every turn. What do you do when a pack of hounds attacks? Why does chopping down trees summon angry tree monsters? You’re always hungry. You have to keep looking for food or stockpile plenty of it to avoid starving to death. Before nightfall, you have to gather enough grass and twigs to craft a torch for light, or the darkness will attack! Each of the four seasons brings its own natural disasters and seasonal monster bosses. Ellie had to spend twelve tense hours there every day, doing everything she could to survive before being transported back to Stardew Valley at six in the morning. Theme: Make the most of life.