Don't Starve Steam news

• Latest observed players592 · 21 September 2026 - 23:08:42 UTC
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• Review score97% positive
• Total reviews113,332
• Release dateApr 23, 2013
• DeveloperKlei Entertainment
• PublisherKlei Entertainment

Genres: Adventure, Indie, Simulation

Company pages: Developer: Klei EntertainmentPublisher: Klei Entertainment

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Don't Starve Steam news

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• Don't Starve, one of the best roguelike survival games, is getting its own tabletop adaptation - 28 March 2024

  One of the best survival games out there is getting a board game courtesy of Glass Cannon Unplugged, and it’s Klei Entertainment’s roguelike classic Don’t Starve . Going the crowdfunding route through Kickstarter , Don't Starve: The Board Game takes 1-4 players into the randomly generated world of the Constant, a strange and dangerous realm where magic and science intertwine. With the elements and plenty of baddies working against you, as one of the video game’s iconic characters, you and your friends will need to use your wits to outsmart fate, find subsistence, and stay alive. Read more

• One of the best roguelike survival games, Don't Starve, is getting its own tabletop adaptation - 28 March 2024

  One of the best survival games out there is getting a board game courtesy of Glass Cannon Unplugged, and it’s Klei Entertainment’s roguelike classic Don’t Starve . Going the crowdfunding route through Kickstarter , Don't Starve: The Board Game takes 1-4 players into the randomly generated world of the Constant, a strange and dangerous realm where magic and science intertwine. With the elements and plenty of baddies working against you, as one of the video game’s iconic characters, you and your friends will need to use your wits to outsmart fate, find subsistence, and stay alive. Read more

• Major Quality of Life and Big Fix Update Now Live! - 27 April 2023

  Hey everyone! The big Bug Fixes and Quality of Life update is now live! A big thank you to all the players who checked out the beta, reported bugs, and provided feedback and suggestions. The list of changes and bug fixes is gigantic! So here are some highlights. Highlights: Additions New item: the Seed of Ruin. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Guardian (ALL). The Water Beefalo will now have adorable offspring! (SW). New craftable: the Nightmarish Bird Whistle (HAM). New Crock Pot recipe: the Meated Nettles, an antihistamine food made with meat! (HAM). Utility / Interface Changes (ALL) A new integrated backpack layout can now be enabled in settings. The maximum number of save slots has been increased to 10. A "don't show this again" check box has been added to the "mods enabled" warning screen. Check it if you don't want the warning to appear anymore!. Background images will n…

• [Beta Update - PT II] Quality of Life Beta Available Now! - 14 March 2023

  Quality of Life Update The acronym in parentheses at the end of each change/bug fix refers to which DLCs this change/bug fix is applied to: Base: the vanilla game, no DLCs. RoG: Reign of Giants. SW: Shipwrecked. HAM: Hamlet. ALL: all of the above. Additions: New item: the Seed of Ruin. It can be obtained by defeating the Ancient Guardian (ALL). Existing worlds where the Ancient Guardian is already dead will have a Seed of Ruin appearing somewhere in the ruins. The Water Beefalo will now have adorable offspring! (SW). New craftable: the Nightmarish Bird Whistle (HAM). New Crock Pot recipe: the Meated Nettles, an antihistamine food made with meat! (HAM). Changes: Non-gameplay changes (ALL): The mouse wheel can now be used to browse the mods in the mods screen. Chest and Bundle Wrap UI have better quality now. A new integrated backpack layout can now be enabled in settings. Scrolling throu…

• [Beta Update] Huge Bug Fix Beta Available Now! - 26 January 2023

  Hello everybody! Surprise! We have a big bug fix update for you all. This is pretty substantial, so we’re going to put this on a beta branch for you all to check out before we push it out to the live version. Instructions for switching to beta versions on Steam can be found here. We have set up a new bug tracker for Don’t Starve that can be found here. Please check it out and let us know any issues that you run into. The acronym in parentheses at the end of each change/bug fix refers to which DLCs this change/bug fix is applied to: Base: the vanilla game, no DLCs. RoG: Reign of Giants. SW: Shipwrecked. HAM: Hamlet. ALL: all of the above Changes Added inspection lines for bee box stages (ALL). The Fryfocals fire rate has been lowered a bit, based on other weapons (ALL). Lazy Explorer can no longer be spammed and has its own effects (ALL). Monkey houses will release all monkeys when set o…

• Don't Starve developer "will retain autonomy" as Tencent buys majority stake - 23 January 2021

  Klei Entertainment, the developer of Don't Starve , says Tencent buying a majority stake won't change a whole lot for the studio. The indie game makers will "retain full autonomy" amid the new ownership. In a post on Klei's official forum , founder and CEO Jamie Cheng confirmed the news, then reassured everyone that for the most part, everything will be business as usual. "There are some boring accounting changes that we will need to adjust to," Cheng writes. "Other than that, I will continue running the studio as before, with no changes to staffing, projects or other operations." Cheng explains that Klei considered a number of different companies, and Tencent was the only one that would let the team "retain the level of control that we demand". The one goal has always been to make sure everyone at the studio was secure and happy, and Tencent helps insure that goal. "Consistently, my wi…

• Don't Starve dev Klei Entertainment insists it "retains full autonomy" after Tencent buys majority stake - 23 January 2021

  Klei Entertainment has insisted it "retains full autonomy" after Tencent bought a majority stake in the company. Klei, best-known for its enormously popular gothic survival adventure Don't Starve, said it remains in control of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent and more. The Tencent purchases means "there are some boring accounting changes that we will need to adjust to", Klei founder Jamie Cheng said in a post on the studio's forum , but other than that, "I will continue running the studio as before, with no changes to staffing, projects or other operations." Read more

• Tencent now own majority stake in Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included creator Klei - 22 January 2021

  More game industry news coming at you following the Team17 buying up Golf With Your Friends and YoYo Games being acquired by Opera we now have Klei Entertainment agreeing for Tencent to take a majority stake in them. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/tencent-now-own-majority-stake-in-dont-starve-and-oxygen-not-included-creator-klei

• Tencent have bought a majority stake in Don't Starve developers Klei Entertainment - 22 January 2021

  Klei Entertainment, developers of indie hits Don’t Starve and Oxygen Not Included have announced today that they’ve agreed for Tencent, the media conglomerate that’s been doing quite a lot of buying, to purchase a majority stake in the company. Klei founders say that they will keep “full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio”. (more…)

• Tencent have bought a majority stake in Don't Starve developers Klei Entertainment - 22 January 2021

  Klei Entertainment, developers of indie hits Don’t Starve and Oxygen Not Included have announced today that they’ve agreed for Tencent, the media conglomerate that’s been doing quite a lot of buying, to purchase a majority stake in the company. Klei founders say that they will keep “full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio”. (more…)

• Tencent have bought a majority stake in Don't Starve developers Klei Entertainment - 22 January 2021

  Klei Entertainment, developers of indie hits Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included have announced today that they've agreed for Tencent, the media conglomerate that's been doing quite a lot of buying, to purchase a majority stake in the company. Klei founders say that they will keep "full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio". Read more

• The best survival games on PC - 17 November 2020

  It’s no longer the most urgent gold rush in PC games, but survival games continue to be regularly released, and older games continue to be regularly updated. It’s only natural then that we’ve taken some time out from foraging for edible berries to update our list of the best survival games for 2020. (more…)

• [Game Update] Hamlet - 428605 to 429404 - 3 September 2020

  - 429404 Updated the less photosensitive lightning effects for DLCs - 428605 Changed the lightning visuals to be less harmful photosensitive eyes. Added a "Screen Flashes" option in settings to adjust the effect.

• Have you played… Don't Starve? - 3 September 2020

  Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. What am I thinking? Of course you’ve played Don’t Starve . Some days it feels like the ratio of “people who have played Don’t Starve at least once” to “people on planet Earth” is somehow greater than one. So you can imagine my shock when I found out that no one has written a HYP on Don’t Starve before now. (more…)

• The best building games on PC - 25 August 2020

  ‘Building’ is a pretty broad theme. There are a lot of games where you build things, after all, and they can be very different. Helpfully, then, I’ve split this list of the 20 best building games on PC into four sections, each covering a sub-category of this big, messy genre. (more…)

• The 20 best survival games on PC - 21 February 2020

  Ever since Minecraft got us hooked on surviving its deadly nights and sinister, snickering foes over a decade ago, there have been wave upon wave of new survival games to scratch our deepest masochistic itches. Attempting to tackle them all at once, however, would probably lead to an early grave, so we’ve put together this list of the very best survival games on PC to help satisfy those cravings for Darwinian supremacy. Whether you love punching trees, surviving against the elements or simply stuffing your belly with as much grub as you can manage, there’s a survival game with your name on it. (more…)

• Games like Minecraft 16 best games like Minecraft from the past ten years - 16 October 2019

  There have been a great many games like Minecraft over the past decade. Which is to be expected, because who wouldn’t want to capitalise on the runaway mainstream success of the decade, and the best-selling video game of all time? There are many things that are very special about Minecraft, and remain more or less unmatched even ten years later; but we’ve done our very best to condense all that specialness down into a simple list of six criteria, and from there, we’ve compiled our list of the 16 best games like Minecraft out there right now. Some of these games you might look at and think, “ But Ollie, my dear fellow! You must be crazy! This game looks nothing like Minecraft! ” Bear with me, and I’ll explain exactly why each game on this list has earned its place there. Each of these games are well worth a try if you enjoy Minecraft for whatever reaso…

• [Game Update] Hamlet - 345820 to 379591 - 25 June 2019

  Bug Fixes: Player will wait until after landing on a boat to sneeze. Fixed a graphic bug with fence gates when exiting interiors. Insulated sac, sea sack and gold rock gets a minimap icon. Pathfinding should now work better in interiors. Fixed bug where minimap sometimes didn't properly uncover traversed areas. Can pick up items on the ground near un-sprung tooth traps now. Fixed a spelling error on the Batilisk Wing?. Thumper’s minimap icon fixed. Dense turf will grow tall grass. Fixed crash at the beginning of adventure mode prologue Life vest and amulet will save the player on water in Hamlet. Wheeler tracker won’t steal an item when a second is given to it anymore. Poison Frog Legs and Tubers won’t bother WX anymore. Fixed player boat crashing into shoreline when beardhair or dense jungleturf was placed on edge of lilypond. Bramble Armor will protect Wormwood from Cacti and Spiky Bu…

• [Game Update] Hamlet - 343524 - 14 June 2019

  We've added a new Performance setting in Settings called Dynamic Asset Loading. It saves memory by loading certain data as needed, and unloading it when it’s not used for a while. Like most optimizations there’s a trade-off - while the dynamic loading decreases memory usage significantly it also means the game has to load assets in the background - depending on your hardware this may be noticeable. The game needs a restart for any change to the asset loading to take effect. Bug Fixes Added a “Dynamic Asset Loading” feature to reduce the memory usage on some machines* Improved performance of Tall Grass. Fixed graphic bug when punching with Bug B’Gone Pugalisk Gaze will now freeze birds, butterflies, bees, fish and some other things it didn’t before. Frozen flytraps won’t go to sleep now. Flower of life sparkles won’t block building placement Minimap icons for Wheeler’s Tracker, Pew-Matic…

• [Game Update] Hamlet - 341281 - 6 June 2019

  Bug Fixes Pig town is more consistent now. Shouldn’t have missing pig palaces Fixed issue where the “Travel” option would not show on teleportato in adventure mode when playing with controller. The Camera will zoom back out after Wilba’s transformations. Fixed controller hint showing “MISSING NAME” when near a bramble site. Fixed examine string for cave entrance on ROC island. Only Wormwood will see the Plant action with seeds when using a controller. Partially constructed Robot can be teleported. Reduced memory spike on save. Dryrack in interiors will still work when it’s raining outside. Controllers won’t detect depleted sparkling pools. Fixed another way rain could stop prematurely when leaving an interior Ancient Robots won’t push the telelocator Focus around now. Ancient Robots can’t leave the world bounds now. Ancient Hulk’s laser spin should cause less lag now. Walls can now be p…

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