
In keeping with Klei’s attention to detail and balance across its games, the core Don’t Starve experience is tweaked across Together’s three modes-Survival, Wilderness, and Endless-to ensure revival items and certain character abilities aren’t overpowered. The mutual blame when a deerclops stomps through your camp, ruining days worth of winter prep, is a strategy game in itself. Turns out the developer needn’t have worried, because a disaster shared is even more fun.

Klei fought shy of adding co-op to its brilliant game of goth survival whimsy for a couple of years, reasoning (not unreasonably) that the addition of other people might break its esoteric spell, which relies on feelings of isolation and discovery.

Release date: 2016 | Developer: Klei Entertainment | Players: 1-4 | Steam (opens in new tab)
