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AdventureIndieSimulationSurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingSandboxSingleplayer

Don't Starve

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Developer
Klei Entertainment
Publisher
Klei Entertainment
Franchise
Don't Starve
Release date
Apr 23, 2013
Store page updated
Sep 15, 2026
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

87.9/ 100

Based on 424 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 91% of 220
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 113,473
“most time playing, great game, never forget the feeling”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.38
Difficulty +1.36
“very rewarding as you learn what works and what doesn't” (25)

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Story & World
+2.93
World +3.62
“игра оставила глубокие воспоминания и учения от друга” (32)
带我玩饥荒的他走了 剩下的只有那个当年连猎狗都不会打的小孩 以及他无尽的教诲与经验,驱散危险和黑暗 还有我打的一堆辅助养老模组,之前那家伙可是绝对纯净玩家,逼着我和他受苦,随便砍个树挖个石头都要浪费三四天

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Content Volume
+2.47
Volume +3.06

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Visuals & Sound
+4.04
Visuals +4.00
“amazing art style with lovely music and interesting mechanics” (51)

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Multiplayer
+2.47

Not enough data — only 10% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +0.95

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Fairness
+0.38

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +0.43

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Tech & Ops
-1.30
Developer support -0.97
“single-player version abandoned, no updates while multiplayer receives new content” (19)
好玩，但，不推荐任何玩家购买饥荒单机版，即使是不打算联机的玩家，单机版内容现已停更，在联机版里不光能体验到单机版中的几乎全部内容，还有大量其他新内容和持续更新。

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Nov 2012Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 218 reviews, peak 12/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 423 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English39%
  • Chinese30%
  • Russian11%
  • Portuguese7%
  • Spanish6%
  • Turkish2%
  • Other6%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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