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Don't Starve

Klei Entertainment · Apr 23, 2013

PC

Teen

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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.

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Critic 7.8 (15 critics) · Gamer 9.6

8.3

Critic reviews

  • MiniReview

    SugarRigby · Jul 05, 2020

    8.0
    Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition is a mobile port of the popular PC adventure survival game ‘Don’t Starve’, developed by Klei Entertainment. After selling over a million copies on PC by the end of 2013, the game finally received its much-anticipated Android and iOS release in 2016.
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  • Nintendo Insider

    Dan Lipscombe · May 24, 2018

    9.0
    The visual style works brilliantly on the Switch in both handheld and docked. The bold outlines are eye-catching and the muted colour palette lends the game a sense of mystery. Having the full experience of Don’t Starve on the move is wonderful and the day/night cycle is just the right length to hop on and play during a break in your real life. As survival games go, this is one of the best you will find for the Switch.
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  • NintendoLife

    Mitch Vogel · Apr 25, 2018

    8.0
    A distinct visual style, countless hours of randomized gameplay, and an open ended nature that favors boldness combine to make this an easy suggestion. If you still haven’t gotten around to playing Don’t Starve, this is one of the best versions you can get.
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  • AndroidGuys

    Dono · Mar 06, 2018

    8.4
    Don't Starve drops you into a rich world with a complex crafting system and gives you one goal - survive. It'd pricier than many mobile games on the market but offers a full console-quality experience that's worth the price of admission.
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  • Touch Arcade

    Tasos Lazarides · Jul 17, 2015

    10
    Don't Starve truly stands as an excellent iPad game filled with dread and fun, terror and laughter (Wilson is quite funny), and is a very rewarding experience and a rare achievement that has rightly captured so many gamers' attention.
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  • 148Apps

    Rob Rich · Jul 09, 2015

    9.0
    Don’t Starve is one of my favorite survival games that I don’t play as often as I should because it’s so freaking hard, and Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition absolutely does it justice. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I actually think it’s better on the iPad because the tap interface allows players to interact a little faster and more directly. Really though, any version is fine because it’s a great game, but if you haven’t tried it yet this iPad port is a great place to start.
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Gamer reviews

  • Play with Rainer

    Apr 29, 2021 · PC

    9.0

    Don't Starve

    The first time i've played this i was so struggle to survive and keep dying, and then i tweak the world settings to the easiest way, and i survived but im still dying sometime and everything are gone. the good thing is you have unlocked a new character and my best is WX78 that robot can eat any edible things,. i love this kind of survival game GRAPHICS/VISUAL :star::star::star::star: SFX/BGM :star::star::star: GAMEPLAY :star::star::star::star:

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  • Raine

    May 28, 2019 · PC

    8.0

    The reason why I play Open World games is because every once in a while, I want to get lost in a different world. This game is close to my heart because it was the game I played when I was doing my thesis. I've never beat the game, and I really don't want to. Whenever I play Don't Starve, I really just want to fool around and find many different ways to kill mobs without getting my hands dirty. I love how you can tweak the world according to exactly how difficult or how easy you want the game to be. Whether you want a super easy game where you will definitely not starve, or shoot yourself in the leg and be stuck in winter forever, this game will deliver.

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