Games like Don't Starve Together
If Don't Starve Together is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wayward, Rust and No Man's Sky — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build sprawling bases, master character synergies and mod the game endlessly. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Don't Starve Together is a survival crafting game developed by Klei Entertainment that launched on Steam in 2016 at a price of 14.99 USD. The game features base-building, boss-fights, character-specialization, an insanity-system, mod-support and perma-death as core mechanics. Players describe the experience as dark, melancholic, stressful and tense according to reviews. Reviewers highlight hooks such as building sprawling bases, mastering character synergies, endless modding, sharing the struggle with friends and surviving against absurd odds. The game runs natively on Steam Deck and has received a 96% positive rating from over 80,000 Steam reviews. With a massive campaign length and hard difficulty setting, it supports online co-op multiplayer.
About Don't Starve Together: Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Players who liked Don't Starve Together also play
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Wayward
WHY THIS
Top pick for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity, base building and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Second-strongest match for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with Don't Starve Together.
Third-strongest match for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and boss fights with Don't Starve Together.
Ranked #4 for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Ranked #5 for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Starve Together.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Don't Starve Together.
Ranked #6 for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Don't Starve Together.
Ranked #8 for Don't Starve Together fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and boss fights with Don't Starve Together.
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity, mod support and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
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.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Starve Together.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Borderlands 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Don't Starve Together.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Don't Starve Together cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Don't Starve Together at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Starve Together.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Action with Don't Starve Together.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Action with Don't Starve Together.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Don't Starve Together.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Don't Starve Together on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Don't Starve Together.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Starve Together.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Don't Starve Together.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Klei Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Klei Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Indie and Simulation with Don't Starve Together.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity, mod support and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
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.
Griftlands
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
Mark of the Ninja
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
Rotwood
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.
Hot Lava
WHY THIS
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Another title from Klei Entertainment, the studio behind Don't Starve Together. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Starve Together.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and procedural generation with Don't Starve Together.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Together.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and boss fights with Don't Starve Together.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Don't Starve Together.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Don't Starve Together.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Don't Starve Together.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Necesse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Together.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Frequently asked about Don't Starve Together
- Is Don't Starve Together verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Don't Starve Together is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Don't Starve Together cost?
- Don't Starve Together is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Don't Starve Together have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Don't Starve Together supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Don't Starve Together?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Don't Starve Together are Wayward, Rust, No Man's Sky.
- Who developed Don't Starve Together?
- Don't Starve Together was developed by Klei Entertainment.
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