![]() ![]() All of that exertion uses energy, and many of the creatures crawling around do, in fact, bite.Īnd just like in real life, you have to prioritize your mental health.īut the difficulty of Don’t Starve Together is similar to the struggle many of us have: keeping a balance. ![]() Your physical health can take a dip if you spend too much time foraging for food or supplies. I also had a pretty bad habit of trying to go it alone, even though “Together” is in the title. My first few times playing, I found myself forgetting that I needed to plan ahead and have a light source or suffer a terrible death. Thankfully, the real life errors tend tend to lead to my coming up with increasingly creative ways to eat potatoes for a few days-rather than trying to con birds and bunnies into traps as I did in-game. ![]() Though I don’t need to craft traps to catch my dinner, figuring out how to budget and feed myself while keeping the bills paid is something I have had to learn through trial and error. What I wish I had known before playing this game (other than to not eat any of the insta-death mushrooms) was just how much it would remind me of the struggles of surviving in daily life. You learn by doing and (likely) failing a few (or many) times. However, just like in life, there is no tutorial. The basic mechanics involve players crafting survival items while foraging and hunting for food. ![]() While the concept itself is simple-keep yourself and your friends alive-the learning curve is quite steep and most new players won’t be able to survive for very long. In Don’t Starve Together, players must work together to survive in a charmingly dreary open world. Imagine if Tim Burton made Minecraft… though I don’t think it would be quite this bleak. ![]()
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