Don't Starve is Terrifying
7,497Don't Starve has been in my peripheral vision for years, with steam constantly showing me Wilsons face all the time, I finally got into it.
The survival and crafting genre has largely been something that disinterests me since you're in menus a lot of the time, so this safely stayed outside the wavelength of games I'd actually play for a very long time.
Besides my friends recommending it, It wasn't until I realized just how mechanically sound it all was and how deliberate it felt in it's design that I started to take an interest. And even if there is one giant, glaring issue in one of it's core mechanics, it's really difficult to find a videogame that feels as fulfilling in it's moment to moment feel as either of the Don't Starve games.
They are basically survival games in fast motion.
Inconveniences that would be annoying in other games like your hunger meter and resource usage end up feeling exponentially interesting here. While a lot of people don't mind that Minecraft eventually included a hunger bar, it's easy to tell that it's not something that's essential to the games base DNA, at times it can feel like something that was just included so that there was more of a "game" component overall.
Whereas in Don't Starve, it feels more calculated in how the developers included it (I mean it's in the games title of all things) your hunger meter drains abnormally fast, and even after you've gotten into a nice grove of tending to your base and making sure you've got a lot of the essentials.. It's still easy to accidentally get complicit and have it sneak up on you, and this forces you to constantly put yourself in danger. It's like the game is giving you a routine that you naturally discover and by the time you take a step back and realize what you're doing you understand..
"Oh.. This is the game."
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