Stardew Valley 1.6 on mobile adds a secret third thing – a hidden multiplayer mode

The hotly anticipated Stardew Valley 1.6 update is live on console and mobile, and in addition to a sweeping set of changes and additions, the mobile version has a secret multiplayer game mode. It’s not fully official, but Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone added it in himself as an “experimental feature” to see if multiplayer Stardew on mobile could even work well. “It’s an experimental feature, so it might still have some bugs or issues,” Barone explained in a blog post outlining how to access multiplayer on mobile. “[And] the nature of the mobile platform could make a multiplayer session frustrating, under certain scenarios.” Read more: The best multiplayer games to play in 2024 Which is probably why Barone made it so challenging to even start. You have to tap the leaves around the Stardew Valley logo in a certain direction in a specific order, press the button that appears to open a new menu, exit that menu, and, assuming everything worked as intended, you can choose “co-op” as an option. “The ideal ‘mob