Haunted Chocolatier, first introduced in 2021, facilities round a chocolate maker who lives in a spooky fort. Gameplay will embrace gathering substances, making scrumptious candies, and promoting them in a chocolate store. Earlier, Barone shared that the RPG will likely be “means greater” than Stardew Valley. The brand new recreation can even differ from Barone’s first venture’s blissful, cozy fashion, leaning in direction of one thing darkish and “creepy,” with “ghosts, the haunted nature, the fort.” By way of technicality, Haunted Chocolatier can also be a brand new venture because it’s written from scratch and would not use the identical ‘engine’ as Stardew Valley.
“Engaged on Haunted Chocolatier is what I am most keen and pushed to do, out of every thing,” Barone wrote in a weblog publish. The developer additionally emphasised his objective to work laborious on the sport with out “compromising high quality” or hurrying its launch.