Dont Starve Thread

francky · 7 Jan 2013 at 14:38

I came across a video on IGN going over this strange game and initially I was attracted to the strange Tim Burton like art style.

www.dontstarvegame.com/

Yogscast seem to have covered it as well in quite a lot of detail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhVG3A_68hw

The aim of the game is to survive in the wilderness using only the items spread around....while making sure you never die of starvation or get caught out in the dark or killed by any of the strange monsters dotted about and survive for as many days as you can.

Its only in Beta, but can be played now if you get it on Steam in the sale (you actually get 2 copies).

I started playing it yesterday and couldnt get off it....very addictive and well worth a look.

dirtybeatfreak · 7 Jan 2013 at 14:49

Great little game though once you unlock all the tools and have killed everything it kinda looses it's appeal. Finding myself looking forward to the next updates (which I guess is a good thing heh)

francky · 7 Jan 2013 at 14:58

dirtybeatfreak said:
Great little game though once you unlock all the tools and have killed everything it kinda looses it's appeal. Finding myself looking forward to the next updates (which I guess is a good thing heh)

Yeah...I've just been reading the roadmap and they are bringing in a Sanity Meter....so you cant just rely on a single system to stay alive as you will go mad (which actually will open up a new dangerous world), Winter so that you have to survive the cold with less animals/trees/plants etc and longer nights and also a story mode to eventually figure out why your there in the first place.

Hunders · 8 Jan 2013 at 18:18

A mate and I went halves on this today. I spent hours on it and it's pretty good if a little strange at times (pig people?). I like how you are just dumped into the wilderness to figure things out for yourself. Some of the upcoming features seem challenging too.

bitslice · 8 Jan 2013 at 19:12

I'd like a realistic version of this, the cartoon version, not so much.

FrenchTart · 17 Jan 2013 at 23:47

I've been playing this for the last few days and it is amazing. I really recommend people give it a try.

arknor · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:16

First person with over 1k posts that quotes this post gets what should be an unused steam key

FrenchTart · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:31

arknor said:
First person with over 1k posts that quotes this post gets what should be an unused steam key

Me please

edit: but no worries if you'd prefer to give it to someone else. I'm trying to make a friend play this

FrenchTart · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:37

Thank you kindly

arknor · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:37

FrenchTart said:
Me please

edit: but no worries if you'd prefer to give it to someone else. I'm trying to make a friend play this

Key sent, should be unused unless somehow the chrome keys are linked to the steam ones which I doubt is possible seeing as they are seperate keys and how would steam know?

FrenchTart · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:38

arknor said:
Key sent, should be unused unless somehow the chrome keys are linked to the steam ones which I doubt is possible seeing as they are seperate keys and how would steam know?

I'm pretty sure they are unlinked. Someone I know that is addicted to this has registered both his Chrome and Steam keys

arknor · 23 Jan 2013 at 10:51

FrenchTart said:
I'm pretty sure they are unlinked. Someone I know that is addicted to this has registered both his Chrome and Steam keys

lol trusted you a chrome key by mistake but its one that I never used.

just emailed you my steam keys, I'm not sure which one I used but one of them should work.

dirtybeatfreak · 23 Jan 2013 at 14:57

francky said:
Yeah...I've just been reading the roadmap and they are bringing in a Sanity Meter....so you cant just rely on a single system to stay alive as you will go mad (which actually will open up a new dangerous world), Winter so that you have to survive the cold with less animals/trees/plants etc and longer nights and also a story mode to eventually figure out why your there in the first place.

Sounds good, I never thought to look for a Road map of planned features etc.

I still feel there is something missing though. I thought that was player housing at first, but this would make the game too easy as you could just hide in there at night. Maybe it just needs a way of making your 'camp' a little more personal and with a little more defenses (though not completely safe as that would detract from the game).

dirtybeatfreak · 26 Jan 2013 at 11:19

http://www.dontstarvegame.com/blog/update-trailer-progress Looks exactly like what I was describing is coming next patch

VeNT · 27 Jan 2013 at 17:35

been playing this for a few days, really really enjoying it too, it's almost like a minecraft style survivle thing but with less building/crafting.

FrenchTart · 2 Feb 2013 at 16:13

http://linktart.co.uk/piiig.png

Fun stuff

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dirtybeatfreak · 2 Feb 2013 at 21:07

Heh, I wouldn't like to be near there when there is a full moon

Glaucus · 2 Feb 2013 at 21:09

I've been tempted by this for ages, however it doesn't see to have replay ability, so I've decided to wait till its finished.

Werewolf · 2 Feb 2013 at 21:48

I got given a copy of this a few weeks back and it seems fun, although the friend who gave me a copy was surprised when I mentioned a frog (I think it was) attacking me

I'll have to try it some more when I've got the time and I've got over my current bug

Parmesan · 2 Feb 2013 at 22:36

I've been playing it on and off for the last few weeks

thoroughly enjoyed it, I got to day 28 before getting killed by a massive group of spiders! unlocked the female character now and she just randomly starts fires in the dark!

Think I've got a spare copy kicking about if anyone fancies it!