2015 had some fantastic games, and even though most of them can be played on your iPhone, it doesn’t mean they necessarily should. Sometimes a bigger screen is just better, and the following ten games are more than happy to prove that. …
I’m big on truth in titles, so it’s time for a dose of truth serum: Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition had a lousy title. Why? Because unless you had the cargo pants to beat all others (and those are like, so …
It’s hard to believe we’ve been playing the endearingly-creepy survival sim, Don’t Starve, for almost three years now. When it launched a PC beta in 2012, the experience already felt mostly complete, but developer Klei Entertainment has continued to iterate …
Don’t Starve is the world’s easiest game. Its tutorial and instruction manual are right there in the title: Don’t starve. All right, so surviving in Klei Entertainment’s wonderfully twisted alternate universe is a little more complicated than that. Aside from …
A few minutes ago when I sat down at my computer to start writing this review, I saw an enormous and terrifying spider crawl under my desk, and now I keep nervously glancing down at the floor around me every five seconds as I type this so I can scream and run away whenever he decides to come back out. In some ways, this is sort of what it is like to be scientist gentleman Wilson in the fantastic new survival adventure game Don't Starve: always keeping one eye over your shoulder, your safety always in question, and never knowing when or where the next frightening creature is going to appear. It's a good thing that playing this game is a whole lot more fun than sharing your workspace with an unwelcomed eight-legged guest.
We tend to take instructions in video games for granted. This is especially true in recent years, where the first 10-20 minutes of nearly every game is dedicated to a tutorial of some sort. Seemingly in response to that, Klei has gone and made Don't Starve, a PC game that throws the player into an instruction-less world and challenges them to survive. Are you a bad enough dude/dudette?