Adventure · April 23, 2013

Don’t Starve (2013)

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Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. You play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped by a demon and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home. 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. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land. Key Features: Uncompromising Survival & World Exploration: No instructions. No help. No hand holding. Start with nothing and craft, hunt, research, farm and fight to survive. Dark and Whimsical Visuals: 2D characters and odd creatures inhabiting a unique 3D world. Randomly Generated New Worlds: Want a new map? No problem! At any time you can generate a new living and breathing world that hates you and wants you to die.

Adventure releases from 2013

29 Adventure titles launched in 2013 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume109.8k Steam reviewsTop 2% in Adventure
Positive rating97% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 15%
Metacritic79/100Genre average 77 — top 49% of Adventure titles
Concurrent peak1.5k playersTop 3% in Adventure by live player count
Engagement hours54 h averageTop 5% for session depth among Adventure

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Survival · 3.7k
  • Open World Survival Craft · 2.2k
  • Crafting · 1.9k
  • Adventure · 1.8k
  • Indie · 1.8k
  • Sandbox · 1.7k
  • Singleplayer · 1.4k
  • Perma Death · 1.1k
  • Multiplayer · 1.1k
  • Open World · 1.0k
  • Exploration · 1.0k
  • Rogue-like · 792
  • Replay Value · 698
  • Moddable · 671
  • Difficult · 612

Peer Adventure titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Reception Metrics

Steam community

97%Overwhelmingly Positive · 109.8k reviews

106.5k positive · 3.3k negative

Metacritic

79/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.3/10

Curator recommendations

95.1k

Peak concurrent players

1.5k

More from Klei Entertainment

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Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on Phone
  • Remote Play on Tablet
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 23, 2013
DeveloperKlei Entertainment
Base price$2.49 -75%
DLC / Add-ons4 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

54h

substantial (40–100 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

1h

Current engagement

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (2)

  • English volume_up
  • Simplified Chinese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Don't Starve