Don't Starve Together is a standalone multiplayer expansion of the uncompromising survival game, Don't Starve. NOTE: Players who currently own Don't Starve on Steam will get Don't Starve Together for free when it exits Early-Access.
User reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive (3,201 reviews)
Release Date: 15 Dec, 2014

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“NOTE: Players who currently own Don't Starve on Steam will get Don't Starve Together for free when it exits Early-Access. During Early-Access, current owners of Don't Starve get 2 copies of Don't Starve Together through the Frontier Pack at 75% off.

When we opened up the initial Beta signups in September, we were overwhelmed with the demand, and in a few days we received over 80,000 registrations. Since then, we’ve steadily sent out keys to people who signed up.

As part of the Beta signup process, we’ve found that there are a lot of people who really want into the Beta, and even while giving out a hundreds of keys every day, it became clear to us that we needed a release valve for the demand. Specifically, people were starting to buy keys in back channels, with varying success. That's why we're now providing the Frontier Pack: a clear, official channel for access.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We have a plan to complete our core set of content in 2015, and we will be adjusting our plan based on feedback. The game is already fully playable today.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version will have a lot more content, including: new Don't Starve Together-specific content, the ability to host large dedicated servers, support for Reign of Giants content, and much more!”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

Don’t Starve Together currently supports up to six players on player hosted servers, and up to 20 on dedicated online servers. It has both “Survival”, "Wilderness", and “Endless” game modes, support for Mod Workshop, and six playable characters.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Current owners of Don’t Starve will be given free access to Don’t Starve Together upon its exit from Early-Access. In purchasing the Frontier Pack, players get Early-Access, and a bonus copy for a friend. For more information on post-launch pricing plans, visit http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/46183-dont-starve-and-dont-starve-together/

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We're continually talking to our community about our game process, and keep them informed of our progress and decisions with regular updates. Please join the discussion on our forums at http://forums.kleientertainment.com
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Recent updates View all (30)

23 December

Hotfix 121979 Now Live - 12/23/2014

Hotfix 121979 - 12/23/2014

Changes

  • People you have played with now appear in the Steam view players feature.
  • Added a colour cube effect for player ghosts.
  • Game mode data has now been refactored into gamemodes.lua.
  • Game modes can be added from mods via AddGameMode.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed bug where lightning flashes sometimes causes a permanently darkened screen
  • Creepy Eyes and Shadow Watcher hallucinations will appear properly for clients now
  • Maxwell Statue will appear properly for clients now
  • Fixed crash when disabling mods that was caused by frontend assets not being reloaded. Future mods should refrain from overriding assets in the global prefab as they are unable to be unloaded when disabling mods.

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22 December

Hotfix 121911 - 12/22/2014

121911 - 12/22/2014
 

Changes
  • New UI! Too many changes to list, but the UI overhaul changed the aesthetic and was generally focused on improving navigation
  • Inspecting players and skeletons now shows their user name
  • Passwords are now hidden while you are entering them (added an option to the settings menu to enable showing them, as well)
  • Save filters between sessions (reset filters button is part of the UI update)
  • Make the world reset countdown timer a HUD element, which allows players to hunt for a method of resurrection while it ticks down (also increased the timer duration to go along with this)
Bug Fixes
  • Tweaked server listing code to reduce traffic in high use scenarios
  • Fixed rare crash when feeding players
  • Fixed bug where items in inventory could be set on fire
  • Mining lantern light can be seen by all players now
  • Reduce mass of creature ghosts so that they can’t pin players in corners.
  • Creature ghosts no longer use Wigfrid’s build
  • Fixed issues with joining or hosting games on systems with unicode characters in their filepath

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Steam Workshop!


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About This Game

Don't Starve Together is a standalone multiplayer expansion of the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

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. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.

Cooperate with your friends in a private game, or take your chances with strangers online. Work with other players to survive the harsh environment, or strike out on your own.

Do whatever it takes, but most importantly, Don't Starve.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
    • Processor: 1.7+ GHz or better
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Hard Drive: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: 100% DirectX9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
Helpful customer reviews
221 of 262 people (84%) found this review helpful
6.7 hrs on record
Posted: 22 December
Early Access Review
This game is falsely advertised, you DO starve together.
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85 of 115 people (74%) found this review helpful
11.6 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
Early Access Review
Friend died of starvation.
Tried to pick up his stuff with a torch.
Accidentally set everything on fire and burned to death.
10 out of 10 Gaben
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54 of 68 people (79%) found this review helpful
9.0 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
Remember how you could barely feed yourself ?
Now you can struggle to feed two people !
10/10
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40 of 46 people (87%) found this review helpful
26.6 hrs on record
Posted: 26 December
Early Access Review
Just spent an 8 hour session with a stranger who was willing enough to show me the ropes. From a basic camp, we managed to establish a good base of operations growing crops, setting up spider lairs, bee hives and beefulo herds. Definitely appreciate players such as Hxgvamp to take the time to teach a noob what to expect in this new lore. 10/10 gameplay, 9/10 replayability, 11/10 community.
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34 of 42 people (81%) found this review helpful
9.7 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
Early Access Review
Day 15. My friend died. I killed myself.

Play this damn game.
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22 of 28 people (79%) found this review helpful
63.1 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
Early Access Review
With confidence of being able to dodge all tenticles i went to the swamp... i found some mercs and the spider boss(?) nest so i led them to each other and watching to loot afterwards...got more intersting when one of the mercs ran into 5 tenticles....all out war between mercs spiders and tenticles...i was having so much fun betting with my friends who will win the fight in the end while snacking on some potato chips and coke....but a tenticle spawned right under me and i couldnt notice it since i was standing right on top of the bubbles.....the tenticle started attacking me while i waas eating chips and laughing with friends....panicked and instantly swiped my hand towards the keys..potato chips was scattered like flower petals and smacked my coke really hard into the wall doing so...but i thought it was worth it to keep my self alive. i can clean it afterwards anyways..........well i died anyways lol...i became a ghost and randomly started haunting y items...well i couldnt even figure out wut just happend when my things caught on fire from the haunting.......................................oh ya btw the spiders won ...fun game love everything but the turkey...pisses me off
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9 of 9 people (100%) found this review helpful
30.0 hrs on record
Posted: 27 December
Early Access Review
Just simply amazing.
Alittle bit buggy but what do you expect
Its a early access.
-Easy to make servers too.
-Have up to 8 Friends
-If your into survival games this would be perfect for you in addition if you
like tim burtons art(inspired by)I think e.e

I really dont have much Cons about this game because to me.
Its 11/10 Good.
Hope this Helped.
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383 of 707 people (54%) found this review helpful
33.7 hrs on record
Posted: 26 December
Early Access Review
Are you seriously looking through the negative comments just for fun or something? This game is only in early access and it's already better than most finished games out there! So click those positive reviews and buy that game! Then have fun, because you will.
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9 of 10 people (90%) found this review helpful
8.0 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
I love Dont starve, is that kind of "non goal oriented" games that can dristract you for hours.

Always wanted to play it with friends, but as now still not the good experiencei i was hoping for.

Unless you run a private server, there is the things that turn out to be annoying:

1) scarse resources: unless youre one of the first players on a given world, is really hard to find even a piece of flint.
2) Harsh start without warning: add this to the mix, you can start in the middle of the winter! lol.
3) Bully heaven: as now, nothing stops you for being an A** and burn all the flamable resourses. Almost 99% of the time i join to a new server, more than half the world is already burnt.

in general, a little status about the world before joining in would be nice... as for the pyromaniacs, not sure what can be done, but sure are annoying.

About the game in general:

4) No voice chat: is a minor issue, but i would love to scream "HELP! INCOMING DOGS" to everyone instead of typing it :p
5) perhaps some kind of "finite resourses" check/respawn would be nice, not to dumb the game, just for giving a small chance to those who join late.

anyway this game still looks promising, but needs tweaking with multiplayer in mind...

Soo... stop BURNING THINGS!
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9 of 11 people (82%) found this review helpful
64.7 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
We didn't starve, but we died many other ways... together!
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7 of 8 people (88%) found this review helpful
19.6 hrs on record
Posted: 27 December
Early Access Review
My First DST Experince:

Day 1: Berries and Carrots, first night completed
Day 2: Scientology Machine built, base established
Day 3: Running low on food ALREADY with only 2 PEOPLE
Day 4: Learned that spiders do INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF DMG TO UNARMED PLAYERS
Day 5: First Death
Day 6: Still dead
Day 7: Friend goes insane
Day 8: I'm get revived!
Day 9: 8, EIGHT, hounds spawn
Day 10: We never made it to Day 10

10/10 would drive my friend insane again and die from hounds
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20 of 33 people (61%) found this review helpful
76.5 hrs on record
Posted: 25 December
Early Access Review
i waiting long time for this

and now release, it's amazing, good job klei,
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
102.1 hrs on record
Posted: 29 December
Early Access Review
Don't Starve Together has been an amazing experience. But that is because I played the original game and have a good understanding of the basics and intermediate gameplay. For the uninitiated it can be a long dark perilous road to making it past the first winter. I however highly recommend buying this game and the single player version. With no in-game tutorial and no real tootips you find yourself googling and asking other players for advice on how to deal with daily life. Everything kills you, especially your friends. The pace of the game may feel slow but soon the amount of resources to gather and refine become immense and turn this game into a fast pace race to gather the gear to survive the winter.

In closing this game has an unforgiving learning curve which is only magnified by the masses of new players who have never tried the single player experience. Prepare to fail many time through your own mistakes and those of others.

Have fun and don't burn the berry bushes. Don't Starve Together is a MUST BUY from Klei Entertainment.
-12|29|2014 (94 hrs) Vice
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3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful
36.0 hrs on record
Posted: 22 December
Early Access Review
Fun game to play with friends, but with a twist a challange to it.
When you start off you start outside of a portal in the middle of nowhere with your friends or just random people you decided to join. You have a bit until night to at least get a fire started so you don't get attacked by the shadows lurking in the dark, and if you're out there you are most likely going to die. Dying will cause your friends trouble, they start to lose their sanity from one of the others who are stranded there die and it haunts them. No fear though, you can easily craft yourself a TellTale Heart. You go up to your friend who has turned into a ghost and stick a new heart into them giving them life again, or you can go haunt a touch stone which will also bring you back to life. Be careful though (I think) it chips away at your max health (last time I played with my friend I had to revive them quite a bit and their max health was lowered).
On the other hand the game play is great the graphics are simple and great, plus you don't have to unlock the characters. You can get more fanmade characters off the DST website or the steam workshop which is also fun, but the one issue with it is when this happened (to me). When my friend who downloaded the same mods, but off the steam store (when I got it off the official DST website) would not work. So when you want to play with mods make sure you download the content off the same website/workshop.
Again this is a great game for people who enjoy survival co-op games.
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5 of 7 people (71%) found this review helpful
9.7 hrs on record
Posted: 22 December
Early Access Review
nice game , i like it
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5 of 7 people (71%) found this review helpful
16.9 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
spawned a deerclop and it died.
best game ever 10/10
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4 of 6 people (67%) found this review helpful
7.3 hrs on record
Posted: 24 December
Early Access Review
Don't Starve is a great game and will still be as it gets further ahead in development but i do have a few problems with the game.

First of all i don't understand who is hosting the server you or us Klein entertainment? When my friends host a server but they have a good wifi they seem to have a bad host but we thought that klein entertainment were hosting??

Secondly why do we have to verify our email it's annoying and dumb we've got steam accounts that we've already verified.

Other than those two complaints it's definetely worth getting as starving was never as fun as it was having a friend now. this game is worth getting no doubts about it it's must get game 8/10
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4 of 6 people (67%) found this review helpful
5.1 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
Cool game, lots of fun. Been waiting for a mulitplayer of this game for sometime XD
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6 of 10 people (60%) found this review helpful
7.1 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Early Access Review
I just bought this game in the sales, and i tell you.. i do not regret it!
This game is extremely funny to play with friends, addicting.
The graphics isn't that demanding but it's a very cool "drawstyle".

Buy this! :)
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
27.2 hrs on record
Posted: 24 December
Early Access Review
Absoulutely fantastic. The game really works well together. Making it easier or harder depending not only on the game but also on who you are playing with. A truly great multiplayer game.
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