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Don't Starve Together

Klei Entertainment

Steam artwork — Don't Starve Together
Quick read

Don't Starve Together is the co-op hunger clock: seasons, bosses, and a camp that can starve while someone is still talking. A crock pot is the save, and winter is a date you both forgot.

What kind of game is it?

Survival craft with a gothic cartoon. You share a winter, a crock pot, and a boss that arrives on a calendar. This is a hunger puzzle rather than a gun extract or a Viking meadow, and the next sitting is a season you failed together.

Who is it for?

For players who want to share one winter and one camp with other people.

With friends

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How it plays
Loop
Surviving hordes
Sessions
Medium sessions
Progression
A world that stays
Players
Co-op
Structure
Sandbox
Tone
Dark · Brutal

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

  • Progression80

    Estimate

  • Social78

    Estimate

Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release
released

2016-04-21

Review score
95%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count
541,469

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price
€14.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages
12
Demo
No
Early Access
No
Players
Co-op

How many people play Don't Starve Together?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies
14M – 30M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players
121,538

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026
28,880

Peak that month: 62,261.

Median playtime
48.9 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 16–166.3 h. 2% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023: 24,763 average, 54,755 peakOct 2023: 26,949 average, 75,799 peakNov 2023: 27,417 average, 68,194 peakDec 2023: 30,197 average, 71,186 peakJan 2024: 31,293 average, 69,583 peakFeb 2024: 24,189 average, 52,084 peakMar 2024: 25,193 average, 59,862 peakApr 2024: 22,535 average, 49,860 peakMay 2024: 25,164 average, 55,378 peakJun 2024: 27,252 average, 67,623 peakJul 2024: 30,179 average, 61,886 peakAug 2024: 26,377 average, 50,227 peakSept 2024: 23,790 average, 57,080 peakOct 2024: 24,528 average, 70,553 peakNov 2024: 31,241 average, 73,568 peakDec 2024: 31,550 average, 70,141 peakJan 2025: 31,071 average, 65,033 peakFeb 2025: 27,037 average, 66,030 peakMar 2025: 31,718 average, 76,261 peakApr 2025: 27,537 average, 70,451 peakMay 2025: 24,931 average, 55,319 peakJun 2025: 29,321 average, 69,999 peakJul 2025: 28,175 average, 58,839 peakAug 2025: 27,655 average, 56,942 peakSept 2025: 25,288 average, 66,747 peakOct 2025: 28,040 average, 67,041 peakNov 2025: 27,358 average, 70,671 peakDec 2025: 26,603 average, 72,221 peakJan 2026: 27,777 average, 68,946 peakFeb 2026: 23,822 average, 48,486 peakMar 2026: 22,356 average, 56,892 peakApr 2026: 25,401 average, 62,988 peakMay 2026: 24,000 average, 52,009 peakJun 2026: 40,525 average, 121,538 peakJul 2026: 37,724 average, 100,058 peakAug 2026: 28,880 average, 62,261 peak
Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

  • Simplified Chinese46%
  • Russian19%
  • English16%
  • Korean5%
  • Spanish (Spain)4%
  • Portuguese (Brazil)4%

Don't Starve Together players also play

Games played for more than an hour in 40 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Co-op is the product. Raft shares the shared project and then floats the camp.

Core mechanics

Related games

Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.

Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: Survival.

Related rankings

Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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