Someone please use my idea! I know what people love about stardew is the farming and getting away from the big city life! But I had an idea for the complete opposite: you could be a new artist that just moved to a big city.

Your first day you move into an apartment with 1-2 roommates (your guide npcs) or tiny loft by yourself (and your neighbor would be your guide NPC)

Your first task could be going to pick up your ID from the post office to give to your shady landlord.

You could choose a flexible job from: waitress, dog walking, a third thing…

• You could choose what type of artist you are:  
Is your dream broadway - so you need to go to auditions  
• Are a you painter that wants to sell painting in well know galleries  
• or are you a stylist trying to work with the biggest names in fashion.

All the “grindy” monotonous things that a lot of people complain about in farming sims would make a difference.  
• Going to practice events/ events  
•talking to NPCs - their likes and dislikes get you more/ different opportunities so build relationships matters  
•the need to build, decorate and plant things around your apartment to keep up your mood  
• The need to eat - you wouldn’t want to pass out at an audition  
• Looking for someone who’s always being dodgy (the landlord! When rent’s not due - he dodging you! So he doesn’t have to come fix something in your apartment.)  
• Walking around could be encouraged by finding cool furniture & things that could help you elevate in your career path.  
•  Short days- of course when you’re ripping and running around to work, an event, to see friends, eat, and relax the days just flies on by  
• Also your job manages your “steady” paycheck, just like going to the minds and selling things  
so being a dog walker is the most flexible but it’s the least consistent  
Or working at a coffee shop provides the most stability but you have to go to bed earlier  
Or being an unpaid intern helps you advance your career faster but you have to get creative with how to get money

Ooh - and we can give the small animals some love!!! Instead of a dog, or horses and cows - you could have a cat, hamster, bird, guinea pig or FERRET (how cute!)

New York City Stardew