Don't Starve Together
Last updated: 2026-01-27
- Engaging survival mechanics with high replayability
- Affordable with great value and content
- Multiplayer cooperation enhances strategic gameplay
- Lack of tutorials and poor in-game guidance
- Technical issues and optimization problems
- Resource scarcity creates frustrating survival pressure
Emotions
Frustration24%Disappointment10%Excitement9%Satisfaction9%Nostalgia7%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 524,420
- Positive
- 498,71695.1%
- Negative
- 25,7044.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 37,157,129
- Estimated revenue
- $556,985,364
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3750.81%
- Estimated copies lost
- 26,570
- Estimated revenue lost
- $398,284
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3790.8% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1,0522.3% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,8788.4% Avg playtime 405.5h | 40,76288.5% Avg playtime 228.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 11.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 97.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 560.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,057.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
46,071 total
Organic purchasers34,42474.7%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations11,64725.3%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
46,071 total
First impression0-2h2,0364.42%
Voted up: 77%
Mid game2-10h8,83919.2%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h5,62712.2%
Voted up: 91%
Endgame20h+29,56964.2%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
87.8%
Global baseline 90.8%
74 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 524,420 total.