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Klei Entertainment · 2013 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 96 % positive of 109,816 reviews, as of Oct 18

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

24 games that play like Don't Starve and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Don't Starve Together, The Long Dark and Darkwood.

Player tags

  • Survival
  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Crafting
  • Adventure
  • Indie
  • Sandbox
  • Singleplayer
  • Perma Death
Map region: Survival & Crafting
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Plays and looks like Don't Starve

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Don't Starve

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Dinkum92 % positive of 24,584Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Sandbox
  2. Echo of the Wilds76 % positive of 194Shared: Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
  3. Core Keeper92 % positive of 54,979Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  4. Wildmender86 % positive of 1,710Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  5. Subterrain76 % positive of 1,358Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  6. Necesse93 % positive of 17,071Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  7. The Survivalists76 % positive of 9,217Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  8. SCUM74 % positive of 112,115Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  9. Stranded Deep74 % positive of 45,828Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  10. The Infected85 % positive of 6,586Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  11. Card Survival: Tropical Island95 % positive of 2,729Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting
  12. Mist Survival76 % positive of 13,456Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting

By look

Looks like Don't Starve

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Nobody Saves the World91 % positive of 6,169
  2. Creaks94 % positive of 4,855
  3. Carto96 % positive of 8,541
  4. Edge of Sanity78 % positive of 190
  5. Children of Silentown87 % positive of 1,309
  6. Wytchwood92 % positive of 4,032
  7. Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes88 % positive of 3,162
  8. Machinarium95 % positive of 17,244
  9. Pyre90 % positive of 9,038
  10. Children of Silentown: Prologue96 % positive of 1,036
  11. Salt and Sanctuary89 % positive of 20,652
  12. Laika: Aged Through Blood92 % positive of 4,909

At a glance

What games like Don't Starve have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Don't Starve: Crafting (24 of 24), Survival (23) and Open World Survival Craft (19).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 23 of them after Don't Starve (2013).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Forest (95 % positive of 627,791).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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