Don't Starve Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-17
- Dynamic and challenging gameplay experience.
- Highly recommended by players.
- High-quality DLCs and mod support.
- Stylish graphics and atmospheric soundtrack.
- Game too difficult for newcomers.
- Frequent crashes and progress loss frustrate players.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 112,612
- Positive
- 108,75396.6%
- Negative
- 3,8593.4%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 8,738,590
- Estimated revenue
- $87,298,514
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 531.26%
- Estimated copies lost
- 4,113
- Estimated revenue lost
- $41,089
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 531.3% Avg playtime 0.8h | 2064.9% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 1874.4% Avg playtime 81.1h | 3,76089.4% Avg playtime 126.6h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 10.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 80.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,882.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
4,206 total
Organic purchasers3,97494.5%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations2325.52%
Voted up: 96%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
4,206 total
First impression0-2h3438.16%
Voted up: 83%
Mid game2-10h1,32431.5%
Voted up: 93%
Late game10-20h64815.4%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+1,89145.0%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
81.8%
Global baseline 94.3%
11 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 112,612 total.