Striking Tim Burton-style art and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“It features a simple UI and a fantastic hand-drawn art style, with a dark and mysterious theme”
Steam review · 153.5 h played ↗
Don't Starve
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%Klei Entertainment2013Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Adventure
The verdict
A brutally difficult, beautifully hand-drawn survival classic that rewards trial and error. Skip it if you hate permadeath or wiki-diving, or if you'd rather buy Don't Starve Together.
Great for
Players who like hard, hands-off survival games, learning from death, and a dark Tim Burton-style world
Main risk
No tutorial plus permadeath means constant restarts and wiki reliance, and DST offers more content
What players love
Rewarding challenge: learn from every death
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Just to be clear, you WILL die. Over, and over, and over, and over again... But every death has meaning.”
Steam review · 784.5 h played ↗
Highly addictive and replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Do not play this game. It will suck up all of your hours.”
Steam review · 24.1 h played ↗
DLCs add a huge amount of content
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“Each of the DLCs could stand as a full game on its own, not just a simple add-on.”
Steam review · 12.3 h played ↗
Varied characters and mods
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“Cheap price, lot of characters, workshop mod support, fun game play.”
Steam review · 37.2 h played ↗
Better than DST for solo, simpler play
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“It doesn't suffer from content bloat and is generally just a fun survival game”
Steam review · 302 h played ↗
What players complain about
No tutorial; wiki required
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The game is purposefully obtuse and lacking in explanation or guidance to the extreme. I've tried to play a few times and it always ends the same way. A wiki open on one monitor and constant failure.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Abandoned for Don't Starve Together
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“this version just feels like a slow, trashy, alpha version. Not worth buying, at all, considering you can just buy DST and play offline, alone”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Repetitive grind and chores
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Vast majority of the gameplay consists of doing chores to unlock more chores to do.”
Steam review · 47.7 h played ↗
Crashes and Mac/controller problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Crashes on Windows, won't even load on Mac.”
Steam review · translated · 32.5 h played ↗
Permadeath wastes hours of progress
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“I'm ~20 hrs into a play, building a base, crafting, planning. Then suddenly a new boss / mechanics / volcano shows up and wipes me off the map”
Steam review · 301.5 h played ↗
Clunky UI, inventory, combat and controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“the crafting menu is clunky and takes time and memorizing what tabs items are in”
Steam review · 38.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support500 MB
Minimum
OSWindows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
Processor1.7+ GHz or better
Memory1+ gigs of RAM GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
Storage500 MB HD space
OSWindows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
Processor1.7+ GHz or better
Memory1+ gigs of RAM GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
Storage500 MB HD space
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