Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

BANGER · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$5.0966% offBANGER

Cost per hour
$0.44/hr
ReviewsS
95% of 545,544
Critics
83 players 12 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.09 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
34.1h
To 100%
213.7h 6.3x the story

Price and sales

Sales
88 on record
Typical cut
66% off
Steam low
$1.49 April 2023
Sale every
35d last October 2026
All-time low $1.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
14,190 now
Recent reviews
90% 30 days
Cheaper than
27% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Across all 88 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66) and Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 76), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Don't Starve Together

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.

545,544 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach15M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds4 of 799 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

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...
SinancoTheBestRecommendedafter 4090h14 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
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...
EllarudoRecommendedafter 844h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam
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 😂
QuinRecommendedafter 389hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Don't Starve Together scores 91/100 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/322330/don-t-starve-together
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+12
Critics83
Players95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 545,544 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperKlei Entertainment
PublisherKlei Entertainment
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players15.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate