Character from Stardew Valley by ConcernedApe (Eric Barone)
The farmer's grandfather — dead before the game begins, but his letter and his farm set everything in motion.
Grandpa is the inciting force of Stardew Valley. His letter — to be opened "when the burden of modern life grows too heavy" — is what brings the farmer to the valley. He's dead, but his presence is everywhere: in the farm's overgrown fields, in the townsfolk who remember him, in the shrine where his ghost evaluates the farmer's progress. His evaluation at the end of Year 2 is the game's gentlest judgment: did you build a life worth living? Not a perfect farm — a meaningful life. It's the game's way of asking its central question through the voice of someone who already lived the answer.
Seen only in the opening cutscene as a frail old man on his deathbed, handing the farmer a sealed envelope. His ghost appears at the shrine on the farm — a translucent, warm presence with kind eyes. The shrine itself is a small candle-lit memorial in the farm's northwest corner.
Also known as: Grandpa, Grandfather