Loved the survival and characters, the art style is a cherry on top.

If you get mad easily at video games and take it personally when you die, this game is not it for you. you'll die a lot and you'll have to learn from those deaths for future rounds. Certain aspects of the game are harder for certain characters and everyone will enjoy a different characters play style, don't give up if you don't enjoy the first few you try! ALSO fair warning this isn't Minecraft. if you're looking for a relaxing and easy survival game with less mechanics you need to learn go play that instead. (also. "I bought this to play with my friends and then they didn't play with me" isn't a negative review of the game.. thats just a negative review of your friends.)

This game is annoyingly obstinate in theme, design, and user interface. It comes packaged with a flimsy combat system, deliberately useless-sounding/actually-useless tools & structures, and a slightly uncanny and weird art style that's honestly something you just have to see for yourself.

Seriously? Well, this is a positive review. I'll explain. Nothing gets explained to the player, and players basically just have to point and click on random stuff, make some random tools, and either die of darkness, or die of boredom once they've been sitting at a campfire for 8 minutes straight. If they survive longer, then they die of hounds. Live a little longer? Die to insanity. If somehow they make it to Winter... well, you can guess. I don't have any large praise for this game design, as while I look at this learning process fondly now, and while at the time, I was still in love with this strange game... it's really frustrating at its core to be entirely honest. Y'know, as a solo-player game, I'd leave it at that, but there's more.

Minecraft. I think it's a lot like Don't Starve-- maybe not in genre--but in the sense that the way players learn how to play the game is shocking a bit similar. In Minecraft, not a whole lot is really explained, and I feel like, to a stranger, you can only really explain it as a game where you play with lego blocks and make crappy log cabins... like, forever (sounds boring?).

Anyways, No One Learned How To Play Minecraft On Their Own. Seriously, how did anyone build the first nether portal? How did anyone figure out the ending of the game and all of the steps that led up to defeating the ender dragon? We all learned it through each other. Older siblings, friends, school peers, those crappy Minecraft journals at the book faire, ONLINE guides? That's how we learned, and that's how the public understanding of Minecraft became so advanced, for an otherwise obtuse and poorly explained game.

Dropping in on public servers, toiling away like a dolt, barely surviving with a few other, dull campers until some Enlightened Soul steps in to your base to actually organize it and show you the ropes of the game. You'd learn about crockpots, iceboxes, you might really get into base-building. Later, you'd learn about all the biomes, find out how to survive the seasons, start exploring the caves, etc. All at the advice of others in public lobbies or on the internet. We all taught each other, and while this game did not truly start out as a multiplayer game...

I think I can at least say that the experience of sharing knowledge, learning the ropes, and tutoring new, acolyte survivors in this stupid, obtuse little survival game was truly valuable in the end. Don't Starve guys.