Don't Starve Together
BANGER · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 34.1h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was April 2023. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 86 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Conan Exiles Enhanced ($39.99, scores 57) and Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 56), are both worse buys on this math.
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 12 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
4 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 15,973 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 34.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 214, 6.3 times as much.
10 years after release it still had 30.5K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Players
30.5K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My absolute favorite game of all time, sinked hundreds of hours into playing it. Don't Starve Together is the ultimate survival-adventure-sandbox-social experience that defies proper categorization thanks to its uniqueness and limitless different ways of playing it. And it evolves with you. Playing it as a beginner is a whole different experience of overcoming grueling challenges of harsh seasons and cruel bosses...
it took me 600 hrs to made it to the end boss with 10% online guide, doing it vanilla is even more fun rather than using mod (or im just a masochist) worth the time? no, but im having fun should i just open wiki? maybe, but the fun of finding out on your own cannot be compare with finding out bc of wiki i suck? yes truest survival adventure game of all time, a lot of scream, pissed off, surviving while your friends...
Don't Starve Together is such a fun and addictive survival game! I've been playing it with my husband, and somehow surviving together makes everything 10x more chaotic and hilarious 😂
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Don't Starve Together scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/322330/don-t-starve-togetherThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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