
Steam reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
97% of 112,601 reviews
Critic scores
79
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
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DON'T STARVE
Don't Starve has 651 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 651 and its all-time peak is 2,008. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Klei Entertainment2013
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.
- Niche but breathing. Best chance to find others at peak hours.
- Currently at 32% of the all-time peak of 2,008 players.
- Last updated 3 years ago: Major Quality of Life and Big Fix Update Now Live!.
Playing now
651
24h peak
651
24h change
▲ 0.0%
Quick verdict
Is Don't Starve still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 13
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
651
24h peak
651
All-time
2.01K
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
23
Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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