Don't Starve
BANGER · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour
- $0.36/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 113,738
- Critics
- 79 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 28h
- To 100%
- 153.6h 5.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 91 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 November 2018
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,057 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
91 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Satisfactory ($39.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66).
More about Don't Starve
Critics scored it 79. Players sit 18 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 140 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 7,955 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 28 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 154, 5.5 times as much.
113,738 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Tried the game for the first time, instant fun and very addicting, a great survival game would reccomend, artstyle is also awesome
2 more reviews
I've played this game for 1,940 hours here and another 100 hours on PlayStation, so I think it's finally time to leave a review. I love this game and have really enjoyed my time with it. I highly recommend it to everyone. Shipwrecked is my favorite DLC. Thanks to everyone who took part in making this game ❤️
Kind of random: I love Minecraft but I couldn't find ways to make it difficult enough to be interesting. I also really preferred the early game and tended to get bored once I was basically invincible. This game is what I was looking for. It is very difficult and you never really get invincible. I enjoy the struggle and the constant vigilance it inquires.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Don't Starve scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/219740/don-t-starveReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.