Don't Starve Together

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 324 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 63 out of 324
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  1. UncleEd
    May 13, 2019
    4
    Tedious game with a beautiful make-up. Don’t Starve is one of the more popular indie games of the recent years for reasons I simply do not understand. It does look charming indeed. In fact, it has beautiful Tim Burtonesque style graphics and the game easily grabs the attention of anyone who takes a look at the screenshots. You start as a character whose only goal is to survive as long asTedious game with a beautiful make-up. Don’t Starve is one of the more popular indie games of the recent years for reasons I simply do not understand. It does look charming indeed. In fact, it has beautiful Tim Burtonesque style graphics and the game easily grabs the attention of anyone who takes a look at the screenshots. You start as a character whose only goal is to survive as long as possible. Similar to other survival games, you farm, craft, build to stay alive. The first problem with Don’t Starve is that the grinding part is simply boring. Often, it feels like a flash game with a fairly bad user interface where you click, click, click with your left mouse button without having any kind of fun. If you are curious about how grinding can be fun, please check Terraria out.

    Second major problem with Don’t Starve is the permadeath. I am not suggesting that permadeath is bad per se, it can be quite enjoyable when it is done right. In Don’t Starve, however, it turns the tedious game design into something unbearable. You may find yourself grinding for hours, just to die by a random encounter (and it won’t be your fault). Oh yeah, some might suggest “that’s what the game is about” or “you will learn from your death”. Just give me a break… By now you should have played plenty of difficult video games to differentiate good game design from bad ones. Just look at the Souls series. When you die, you know you made a mistake. Maybe you made your move too early. Maybe you did not block the attack when you were supposed to. And if you die, you may lose your “souls” and thereby some of your progress, but not the entire game. In Don’t Starve, unless you are playing with a second monitor with wiki open, there is no way of knowing what will kill you. The only way to learn about what kills you is to be killed by it. And then you will start over, go through the tedious grind for hours and die again for another reason you could simply not prevent. In Don’t Starve, you are Sisyphus…

    Last but not the least, the combat is atrocious. Combat in Don’t Starve is literally the same combat in any of the other thousands of flash games. If you have a good armor, left click the enemy until it dies. Or alternatively, make the enemy chase you and do your attacks while you are on the run.

    If dull, repetitive games with poorly executed game mechanics are for you, play Don’t Starve. If you have a friend who happens to have the same tastes as you do, play Don’t Starve Together. But if it is the art style that pulls you in, your valuable time would be much better spent rewatching The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    3.5/10    … Expand
  2. Tk4Bullet
    Jul 13, 2021
    0
    Welp, the graphics may be fine, but the grind is really boring. Even if you gather a lot of stuff you will lose it all to a random encounter because the attacking is so clunky and bad. Before I get the chance to perform a melee attack or even target an enemy( a bee in particular), a random mob does it faster. Shooting with a slingshot is also terribly bad as Walton sometimes won't shootWelp, the graphics may be fine, but the grind is really boring. Even if you gather a lot of stuff you will lose it all to a random encounter because the attacking is so clunky and bad. Before I get the chance to perform a melee attack or even target an enemy( a bee in particular), a random mob does it faster. Shooting with a slingshot is also terribly bad as Walton sometimes won't shoot and it takes ages for him to "reload". You really will cons00me anything your indie devs will release?… Expand
  3. iseeall
    Mar 15, 2023
    4
    In short: multiplayer adds nothing. Also, only buy this if at least one of you knows the game well!

    It's a multiplayer version of Don't Starve. First off, I'm not a fan of Minecraft-like (Robison-type survival) games though I played Don't Starve and Minecraft 10+ years ago for a couple of days. Only purchased this one because of the seasonal discount and because my gf and I wanted to    In short: multiplayer adds nothing. Also, only buy this if at least one of you knows the game well!

    It's a multiplayer version of Don't Starve. First off, I'm not a fan of Minecraft-like (Robison-type survival) games though I played Don't Starve and Minecraft 10+ years ago for a couple of days. Only purchased this one because of the seasonal discount and because my gf and I wanted to play something together. We had a tiring, unrewarding evening with it, then she tried it on her own 2 times (full-night stretches) with little success, just went to bed in bad mood. Then I watched some 2-hour long "for beginners" video on YouTube, kinda got interested in this game during the first 10-15 minutes of the video, got tired after that and finally lost interest entirely.

    So, what's bad with this game:

    1. NO TUTORIAL. You really can't play it unless you watch videos online about it. Sorry but that's not how games should work. And you come to play this with your gf. To PLAY, not watch hours of videos first

    2. controls are pretty much broken. The game doesn't tell you to use keyboard, instead it enourages you to click on things. This works for resource gathering (though it only tells you later in a random loading tip that you need to hold the mouse button to chop trees, not click). But combat using a mouse is impossible. Moreover, all the overapping tress, bushes etc make you give wrong orders during fights. Just imagine how torturous this is when you play with a gf and both of you don't know this game. Fights were total mess. My character was just running around trying to chop a tree while I was trying to click on the running enemy

    3. the game is not elegant or anything. I mean the design. Just watch any letsplay video and see how many micro-rules are here. "7 dogs spawn but if you use a wormhole and then teleport back, they despawn", "bees become angry in spring even if they are in your hive, they will attack you but you need to run away 2 screens and run back and they will reset" and stuff like that. Literally thousands of tiny things to remember - which you can only find out through dozens of replays. Something you can't know in advance or expect if you just sit with a gf to play something new and fun

    4. multiplayer is broken, totally. Players in the party get maps which are rotated at different angles. You don't even see each other on the map unless you're very close! Half of our time was wasted trying to find each other! We had to sit next to each other, and even when looking at her map on her screen, it was still difficult to figure out where I needed to go to find her cuz of the mental rotations I had to apply. I finally made a compass, but it has limited usage time. And after death, map rotation gets randomzied again until you pick up the compass from your corpse! Players could walk as a group but that makes little sense because we're basically competing for resources and it's more efficient to gather alone.

    Overall, it might be a fun game in singleplayer (if you like this genre) but for multiplayer and especially if you both are beginners it's just a certain way to ruin your evening.    … Expand
  4. zNeverSleeping
    Jun 23, 2019
    4
    - Graficos: 4
    - Jogabilidade: 4
    - Historia: ?
    - Direção: ?
    - Trilha Sonora: ?
    - Densempenho (RTX 2060 + Ryzen 1600): ?

    Comentario: Chato, até mesmo com os amigos...
  5. jonasbomdia
    Jul 27, 2023
    4
    gráficos- 6
    jogabilidade- 0, principalmente por causa das lutas contra boses onde seu boneco tem que ficar parado para atacar
    musicas- ?
    história- ?
    mano esse jogo eu nao consigo me divertir até mesmo com amigos, é a primeira vez que isso acontece.

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. CD-Action
    Jul 21, 2016
    80
    The game is as well-designed and polished as the original Don’t Starve, but of course your reception of Together depends on who you play it with. [07/2016, p.65]
  2. DarkZero
    Jun 24, 2016
    90
    Don’t Starve Together takes the terrific game that it’s predecessor is known to be and builds up a whole new structure around the original that really opens up a lot of different ways of, well, not starving.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Jun 7, 2016
    78
    Don't Starve Together does little to fix the original's glaring problems, but still, conquering the wilderness together with friends is a lot of fun.
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