Deal | $5.09 Steam deal: Eerie indie co-op survival hit with 300,000+ positive reviews heavily discounted
Don't Starve Together is a multiplayer expansion to the genre-defining Don't Starve, allowing you to bring your friends long on the adventure. Don't Starve Together has carved out a niche for itself, and, despite launching nearly 10 years ago, the game still maintains an "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam rating and a daily peak player count of 40,000–65,000 players, according to SteamDB. It features all the typical trappings of a survival-craft game, and it is set in a highly stylised world that's somewhat reminiscent of a Tim Burton animation. Don't Starve Together also just received a new update, Hostile Takeover, which adds new bosses, a conclusion to the Lunar questline, a Wandering Trader, more cosmetics, new controller schemes, quality of life updates, and more.
For the duration of the Steam sale, Don't Starve Together is just $5.09, and buying the game gives you two copies — one for yourself and one to gift to a friend.
Don't Starve Together Steam reviews and gameplay
Being a survival-craft game, Don't Starve Together hinges on its exploration, mining, farming, and creative enemy designs, and it offers players a lot of freedom. There are a variety of procedurally generated biomes to explore, each with its own atmosphere, resources, and threats. As you explore the world, you'll also uncover more about its history and the creatures that prowl the night. Too much exposure to the dark will also slowly drive you insane — a mechanic that both keeps things visually interesting and forces you to do at least some exploration and resource gathering.
In Don't Starve Together, you and your friends are free to decide how you want to tackle the survival game. You can take it slow and steady, building up supplies and resources at a home base, and farming for food, or you can go full explorer-mode and delve into the depths of the caves and Lunar Island on a hunt for adventure. Don't Starve Together's Ghosts mechanic spices up the multiplayer gameplay by allowing dead players to continue contributing to the team, and it allows dead players to be revived instead of simply relegating them to the afterlife. When players die, they drop their loot and turn into a ghost, leaving a skeleton where they died. In ghost form, they can haunt inanimate objects, bending the material world to their will to aid their teammates. They can subsequently be revived using a number of in-game items.
There are also five gameplay styles, allowing you to essentially decide how difficult you want to make the game for yourself:
- Relaxed: Calmer gameplay with fewer threats, especially from environmental hazards and things like starvation, freezing, and overheating. Players also take less damage and can always be resurrected after death.
- Survival: Default experience that is challenging by its nature and intended for co-op squads. Dead players become ghosts, and the world resets 120 seconds after the last player on a squad has died.
- Wilderness: A persistent world wherein players spawn spread out across the map, and must find their way to each other. On death, players lose progress and are returned to the character selection screen and can respawn at a random map location.
- Endless: A more relaxed version of Don't Starve Together, similar to "Survival" but in a persistent world with infinite respawns.
- Light out: Like "Survival," but in the darkness.
The visuals of Don't Starve Together are equal parts endearing and creepy, with the hand-drawn style giving the game a unique look and feel. The visual touches, like the world becoming darker and creepier as sanity runs out also add to the creepy atmospheric fun.
As mentioned above, Don't Starve Together has an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating on Steam, with 95% of the game's 342,114 reviews being positive. Most of the Steam reviews praise the game for its variably and versatile gameplay, charming visuals, and almost overwhelming content depth. The multiplayer mechanics are also held in high esteem.
Don't Starve Together also has a "Gold" compatibility rating on ProtonDB, meaning it should run nearly flawlessly on the Valve Steam Deck and other handheld gaming PCs running Linux, like the Legion Go S (curr. $649.99 on Amazon).
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