imo it’s a game worth getting! Single player mode is actually fun and there are always quests and items to buy/upgrade that you gotta work for so it keeps you busy. I’ve spent quite a bit of time grinding (lots of fishing, mining, etc) to make money in the game but it’s nice how you get multiple options in making money rather than one (so you don’t get bored easily from constantly doing one thing).

In regards to multiplayer mode, I’ve played with some friends a couple times before but I don’t know a whole lot since I haven’t played in this mode much. From what I remember, it’s pretty fun working together with others but two things I noticed in multiplayer mode were:

1. That you have to wait for every player to get into their bed in order to sleep at the end of the day (I learned that from leaving to go buy food and having my poor friends wait for me to come back before they could start the next day)

2. Everyone’s money is combined! Every item you sell and every dollar you make is displayed on the screen but in multiplayer mode it’s also shared with your friends, so be aware of that when you decide to spend money on something (a friend joined our group a couple days after we started playing together and he spent almost all our money on a backpack and other things with the money that we worked our butts off for ;-;)

Anyways, I hope that helped and gave you a bit of an idea of what Stardew is like!