Once there, run the installer and hit repair. Go into the game file directly (you can find this by right clicking game in steam library > properties > local files > browse local files.) and then into the folder titled “_CommonRedist”, then “XNA”, then “4.0”, then “xnafx40_redist” installer.Delete the startup_preferences file in %AppData%/StardewValley (Folder does not exist).Wrote down what I could find while doing some of the suggested troubleshooting: I found another thread of a user having similar problems to me ( ), but none of the advice given in it really helped me.