It's a stressful experience that can become zen as players spend each day collecting meat and other resources to build their stockpile for a harsh winter - and other tough seasons like summer if they survive the cold. Players need to ensure they have a steady food supply so that they can focus on building a base, and then experiment with various scientific and magical pursuits designed to make survival more tenable. The game's loop boils down to fulfilling Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Players have to maintain their health, hunger, and sanity meters while contending with antagonistic forces ranging from spiders to bosses like Deerclops, and even darkness itself every night. However, its roguelike elements often take center stage as The Constant, its procedurally-generated world, has dangers around every corner that literally change with each season. Those players got a good look at a game that feels built for multiplayer, seemingly balancing itself as more users are added.ĭon't Starve Together is a survival game like Minecraftor Terraria players are dropped into an unforgiving wilderness and must learn how to keep themselves alive (likely by looking at a fan Wiki). New content in any game is a huge draw, but being able to survive with a group of friends makes the experience that much better - and Don't Starve Together's playerbase expanded with a Nintendo Switch port this April. This is largely thanks to Don't Starve Together, the standalone multiplayer expansion that added tons of content onto the base experience after coming out in 2016. RELATED: 18 Multiplayer Games To Play If You Like Don't Starve Together Though Klei Entertainment would move on to Oxygen Not Included and Griftlands, Don't Starve is still getting much of its attention. Yet the survival game with a macabre Tim Burton-esque art style was a breakout hit, arguably standing alongside many indie Renaissance titles like Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac as examples of what a smaller team can accomplish. Klei had plenty of experience in the industry leading up to Don't Starve in 2013, working on games like Shank and Mark of the Ninja.

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