Even farmers play Stardew Valley, man.
It's important to realize that SV is not Facebook Farmville. Stardew Valley is basically the spiritual successor to the old Nintendo Harvest Moon games, which were the fucking shit when people still played on Nintendo consoles, and that was recognized immediately by lots of people, like me, who played the originals back in the day.
But then the fucker goes and (on top of modernizing and QoL'ing the mechanics and gameplay loop) gives the townsfolk actual personalities, and suddenly you find yourself actually giving a damn about those pixels.
It's a game about progression though, first and foremost, and that's what draws a lot of people in. Planting seeds and then harvesting the leafy returns on your investment is pretty much the ur-example of self-advancement, so it hits a certain spot for some folks. If you're not big on RPGs and such, then it might not be quite your style.
RE: Booze, I've still got a bunch of junk sitting around that I never drink. There's about a shotglass worth of advocaat in the fridge, the honey Jack I only ever pick up because I plan on giving it to my whiskey-drinking friends, a big bottle of 12-year Orkney single malt because my GF's dad heard I kept buying whiskey (for my whiskey-drinking friends) and figured I must be into the finer things in life (I have also received some cold stones from my GF for a better experience while consuming whiskey, since she seems to have also gotten it into my head that I'm a drinker despite never having had whiskey in her presence before), a jug of Valhalla mead which is sickeningly sweet and tastes like yeasty elderberries, and a bottle of vodka which I think I've used more for cleaning open wounds than I have for cleaning the wounds in my soul, because I've got fuckall mixers.
Like, yes, there's a liter of orange juice (actually clementine juice) in the fridge, but that stuff is of fucking sacred quality and I don't feel like sullying it with bargain vodka.