We are aiming to let you get your hands on it late this summer beyond that, we don't know the specifics yet. With the addition of multiplayer, the price of Don't Starve with Don't Starve Together will go up to $19.99 USD around the time Don't Starve Together Launches.
Beyond that, it's too early to tell.Īll right! Now we're talking! How much is it going to cost?ĭon't Starve Together will be a free expansion for all current owners of Steam / DRM Free. Similar to everything we've done with Don't Starve, it will begin on Steam. What platforms will Don't Starve Together be available on? Could be more, but we are aiming for 4 minimum. We believe that Don't Starve Together will support 2-4 players simultaneously. As far as we know, it will have most of (if not all) the normal features in Don't Starve, balanced for multiplayer, and potentially even add new features.Īs with Don't Starve and Reign of Giants, we'll be looking for your input from now until release. Moving forward we look forward to having constructive conversations about Don't Starve Together, just like we did with the original single player game and expansion.ĭon't Starve Together is a standalone multiplayer expansion of Don't Starve allowing friends or complete strangers to survive together, in either public or private games. Each time it was brought up, it would derail into madness faster than before.ĭon't Starve wouldn't be what it is today without the feedback and discussions that take place in our forums. It got to a point where there was little if any room for constructive discussion about multiplayer. Initially we allowed these posts to stay on the forum, and would only close them if they became unruly. Since there weren't any plans to add it, we decided to post a statement to end speculation and argument and keep discussion and feedback focused. Ok, but seriously, you shut down like a million threads! After a couple months and an office-wide session of multiplayer Don't Starve, we were convinced it was worth exploring and bringing it to our community. Over the past few months, we've quietly smuggled in some new people onto our team who immediately said œHeck yeah, this can be a thing! and actually threw together a proof of concept.
At the time we made the infamous œmultiplayer decision, we didn't know if we would have the resources to pull off an expansion, let alone a full conversion of our game from the ground up. We weren't exactly sure how well Don't Starve would do to begin with. It was (and still is) important to us that multiplayer would not only be interesting for you to play, but also something that we would feel proud of creating. However, at the time we didn't have the resources to make it happen and we weren't confident that it would actually work both in concept and implementation. A lot of people have voiced their feelings that multiplayer would be perfect in Don't Starve. Ok, let's face it¦ it was always a hot button issue. This was the point we tried to get across in our our original decision.Īs we developed Don't Starve, multiplayer slowly turned into a hot button issue in the community. We were not willing to sacrifice our goals for the game to work on a multiplayer version. To us, this meant using the resources that we had allocated to Don't Starve and keeping them focused on delivering on that promise. We promised we would make Don't Starve the best single player game that we could. What the heck, Klei? What happened to NO MULTIPLAYER? Buckle up, because this is gonna be a lot of text. I'm going to put this into sections based on the questions we all know you have. We can't give you all the details just yet, but we'll get through the important stuff right away. Since multiplayer in Don't Starve is a bit of a controversial subject, we're going to approach this announcement point by point so that we can cover as much info as possible.
We are bringing multiplayer to Don't Starve. Hear that? That's the sound of a few million tables collectively being flipped all around the world in sheer joy, terror and confusion.Īlright, so let's rip this bandage right off.