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Gather, craft, and build in a strange wilderness, balancing food, sanity, and seasonal threats to survive alone or with friends.
Released 21 Apr 2016
Outlast Seasonal Hazards
Build a Survival Base
Cook Foraged Ingredients
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Developed by Klei Entertainment · Published by Klei Entertainment









Players arrive in the strange wilderness of The Constant with little more than the need to survive. Play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources while facing hostile creatures and hidden dangers.
Survival means keeping hunger, health, sanity, warmth, and light in check. Craft tools and equipment, prepare food, and build a base with useful structures and farms to support daily life.
Changing seasons bring different hazards and preparation needs, while exploration can lead to new biomes, caves, islands, and bosses. Characters have distinct abilities, and crafting and world settings offer ways to shape each run.
Players who enjoy the game often describe its demanding survival loop as absorbing: gathering, planning, and learning from setbacks can make each new day feel earned. Reviews also highlight the chaos and camaraderie of surviving with friends, the distinctive hand-drawn look, and the variety offered by characters, settings, and mods. Some players find the difficulty and learning demands frustrating rather than rewarding.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Enter a strange and unexplored world full of odd creatures, hidden dangers, and ancient secrets. Gather resources to craft items and build structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of "The Constant".
Cooperate with your friends in a private game, or find new friends online. Work with other players to survive the harsh environment, or strike out on your own.
Do whatever it takes, but most importantly, Don't Starve.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Players | 1–8 |
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| Multiplayer | Don't Starve Together is a standalone multiplayer survival game with online and LAN co-op and PvP listed in Steam features. Official text states players can cooperate in private games or find other players online, and can also play alone. Reviews describe public and private servers, host-created worlds, and three server modes: Survival, Endless, and Wilderness. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop support is listed. Reviews state server mods can automatically download to clients, while some client-side mods are separate. Mods can alter gameplay, add characters, UI changes, and custom experiences, and can be used in multiplayer. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 49 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 83/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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