Sure! But I mostly wanted to focus on newish releases in this piece, and Stardew has an eight year legacy of excellent content out there. It's so well covered by so many good creators but I might look at it one day through a retrospective/ "vs Harvest Moon" lens, or something.
I've been away from this genre for a number of years so it's been fun to give myself a crash course on the current state of it.
Thanks for the tip on Spiritfarer. I'll have to give it a look!