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Have you played… Don’t Starve?As easy to start a journey as it is to end one

As easy to start a journey as it is to end one

What am I thinking? Of course you’ve playedDon’t Starve. Some days it feels like the ratio of “people who have playedDon’t Starveat 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.

And yet, I’d wager the vast majority of games started in Don’t Starve end quite quickly. Maybe it is indeed starvation that gets you; or perhaps you’re caught away from a light source at night; or perhaps it’s that first wave of Hounds that ends your journey. Don’t Starve is as punishing as it is intuitive. It’s the game that sent Klei Entertainment soaring to the top of my list of developers whose games I will always try on day one. The style is truly one of a kind, the world is gigantic and filled with content and dozens of things that will inevitably kill you at some point, and the whole experience of trying to survive in this brutal, quirky and beautiful game is so incredibly satisfying.