Don’t Starve was one of my favorite games of 2013, a delightfully ghoulish survival game that on the surface felt very familiar but was just twisted enough to give you something new and unexpected. Then Klei Entertainment kept on upping the ante by continually updating the game with new features and small expansions. Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants is the first update they’ve released that is truly massive in scope.

Reign of Giants is focused on adding detail to the overworld (as opposed to the Caves or Adventure worlds, added in earlier smaller updates,) and they haven’t skimped on content:

• 2 new seasons: Spring and Autumn
• Summer has been expanded and altered
• 2 new biomes: Desert & Deciduous Forest
• A wetness meter
• Overheating
• New monsters, critters and bosses
• More dastardly devious fun

Full Moon nights in Reign of Giants are never fully dark, making night exploration easier, but beware, for they are a time of many transformations…

Don't Starve: Reign of Giants is downloadable content for Don't Starve. The Reign of Giants DLC was announced on January 15, 2014 and released on April 30, 2014 on PC (Windows/Linux/Mac) and on July 22, 2014 on PlayStation 4. The Reign of Giants content is also bundled with the base Don't Starve game under the name Don't Starve: Giant Edition ( Don't Starve: Pocket Edition for iOS) for other platforms, including PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 Wii U, Xbox One, and iOS. Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants (c) Klei Entertainment. Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants is an expansion pack that adds new characters, seasons, creatures, biomes, and other challenges to Don’t Starve. The entire world of Don’t Starve has been expanded and is now even more uncompromising! Don t Starve + Reign of Giants + Shipwrecked UPDATED: 2016-04-29: Don't Starve + Reign of Giants + Shipwrecked - Free Download: 2015-10-14: Showcase - Trotter (MoPa x Snowrow) - Black ops 2: 2015-10-13: Gun Game - Black ops 2: 2015-08-22: TrotterCraft - Black Ops II Game Clip: 2015-08-21: Lixando no bo2 - DSR Nuketown 2025: 2015-03-18.

When you add Reign of Giants to your game, the content becomes an option every time you begin a new journey into the world. This is a good thing, because while it adds a whole lot of awesome new stuff, a LOT of that stuff is really dangerous, and the game has gotten significantly harder because of it. Every now and then you may find yourself tempted to retreat back to the (relative) safety of vanilla Don’t Starve.

Just one case in point: Seasons. Veteran players will remember that seasons were already a thing, but now they’re really expanded upon. Instead of just summer and winter, you have all four seasons. A typical game will begin in either spring or autumn. If you’re lucky, it’ll be autumn. I have yet to see the newly extra-dangerous summer because every game I’ve played that began in spring has killed me really quickly.

Spring brings lots of rain. And lots of frogs. BEWARE THE FROGS.

Autumn is the season that now most resembles the vanilla summer of the original game, except for the pretty colors you’ll find in the forests. Spring is a time of rain. A LOT of rain. You’ll need to chop a LOT of wood to keep fires burning for any length of time. You’ll also spend a lot of time cowering under trees and picking flowers to make pretty parasols (seriously, that’s a thing) to protect yourself from the rain. If you get too wet, you run the risk of freezing to death even when it’s NOT winter.

You’ll also spend a lot of time hoping and praying that the rain is just rain, and not a rain of frogs.

Say, doesn’t the name of the game mention giants? Why don’t I see any? Do they even …

When you’re getting wetter, a new wetness meter helps you keep an eye on things so you can take what measures you can to keep yourself dry.

Keeping dry isn’t so much a problem in summer; instead you’ll have to worry about overheating. Fire is your enemy in summer, so there are new items in the game to help you with that problem. With a bit of time and research, you’ll be able to build endothermic fires and fire pits. They’re like regular fires in that they give off light that will keep you safe at night, but instead of giving off heat, they give off cold. You can also find “mini-glaciers” in winter and spring, which you can mine like rocks to get bits of ice. Eating ice cools you down, and you can learn to build an Ice Cube, a type of hat that cools you off.

Now, the titular giants. The vanilla game’s winter had Deerclops, a figure of strength and terror the thought of which fills many lesser players (like me) with dread. In Reign of Giants, Deerclops is not alone.

Autumn brings you that cute and fuzzy guy right up there, the Bearger. He’s adorable, really. Summer’s giant is the DragonFly, and Spring has the Moose/Goose. So far the Bearger is the only one I’ve been “lucky” enough to encounter; even in vanilla Don’t Starve, I have never seen the Deerclops. They’re all really tough to kill without the proper preparation, and all drop really good stuff if you do manage to kill them.

Yeah. Expect to see this screen a lot.

It’s not ALL about monstrous death-dealing new creatures and mechanics though. Reign of Giants also features two new characters you can tor–er, explore the game with. Wigfrid is available from the get-go, as soon as you begin a Reign of Giants game. The other, Webber, must be unlocked by completing a challenging set of tasks within the game.

Wigfrid is exceptional in combat, but she’s a VERY picky eater.

Wigfrid is a viking warrior through and through. (Actually she’s a performance artist acting as a viking, but let’s just go with it.) She does excellent damage in combat, and gets stronger with every enemy she slays. This makes her especially powerful against spider nests, which is a very good thing indeed; they will be an important source of food for the player who takes Wigfrid out into the wild. Wigfrid would rather starve than eat food not fit for a warrior, meaning she will not eat vegetables, though she can cook them as part of meat-based recipes with a crock pot. She starts with several pieces of meat in her inventory, a spear, and a viking helmet.

Webber is going to take a lot of effort to unlock, so I’ll just give you a quick overview. He’s a young human child who was attacked by a spider long ago; it tried to eat him, and was only partially successful. Webber now appears to be a humanoid spider, and can grow a beard of silk. Spiders will be neutral to him, and by feeding them, he can befriend groups of spiders to follow him around and fight for him. Because of his grotesque appearance, some mobs like pigmen and bunnymen who are normally friendly to players will attack Webber on sight.

If you’re up for a challenge and you enjoyed the vanilla version of Don’t Starve, Reign of Giants is going to be a great buy for you. It’s available on Steam and (as of this writing) on sale for 20% off for Windows, Mac and Linux for $3.99 USD if you have Don’t Starve, or as a combo with the base game for $18.99 USD. iPad gamers may have hope in the future as well, as rumour has it that Klei is thinking about creating a version of Don’t Starve for iPad.

Have you played Reign of Giants yet? How long have you survived? Have you managed to kill any of the giants? Let us know in the comments!

Don't Starve is a Roguelike dark fantasy survival game created by Klei Entertainment and released in April, 2013. It is currently available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux through Steam or stand-alone application. Don't Starve is also available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita,^[1] and Wii U.^[2] It was also released in July 2015 for Apple iOS 'Don't Starve - Pocket Edition' (Android version - v 0.5 October 14, 2016), including all the content of the Desktop version together with the Reign of Giants DLC.

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Overview

Don't Starve challenges the player to survive in a wilderness environment for as long as possible. In Sandbox Mode, the only way the game ends is with the player's death or by restarting the game in a new random world through the use of the Wooden Thing. When the player dies they are awarded Experience for the number of days they survived. Each death provides experience, which is added to a cumulative total and used to unlock additional playable characters. Although death is permanent and the player's world will be lost when the game ends, various methods of resurrection can be found to stave-off the inevitable.

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Plot

The canonical game plot centers around Wilson, a gentleman scientist tricked by the mysterious Maxwell into building a machine which transports him to a strange world filled with monsters and other challenges.^[3] The player must help Wilson navigate the various worlds of Adventure Mode, which offer more difficulty as the game progresses. Wilson will begin to understand why Maxwell brought him into this world and the terrible secret of his power. Along the way, the player will find an extra character who can only be unlocked during Adventure Mode, and he will eventually confront Maxwell himself.

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Updates

The game's developer, Klei Entertainment, has committed to a series of game updates for at least 6 months after the game's initial release. A large portion of these updates have focused on adding a new environment (Caves) to the game, along with other new content and bug fixes.^[4]

DLC

Reign of Giants

Don't Starve: Reign of Giants was the first downloadable content pack created for Don't Starve.

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Shipwrecked

Don't Starve: Shipwreckedis the second downloadable content pack created for Don't Starve.

Other Don't Starve games and versions

Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together is the multiplayer expansion of Don't Starve, distributed independently from Don't Starve game in Steam.

Giants Edition

Don't Starve: Giants Edition is the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita port of Don't Starve, containing the Reign of Giants DLC.

Console Edition

Don't Starve: Console Edition is the PlayStation 4 port of Don't Starve

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Pocket Edition

Don't Starve Pocket Edition is the iOS 8+/Android 5.1+ game, containing the Reign of Giants DLC.

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Pocket Edition: Shipwrecked

Don't Starve Pocket Edition: Shipwrecked is sold as a separate app for iOS 8+, and it only includes the Shipwrecked DLC.

Reception

Don't Starve has received moderately positive reviews from critics. GameRankings has given it a combined score of 78.69%, while Metacritic gives it 79/100. Armchair Empire rated the game 8.5/10 saying, 'Players looking for a game that will consume them for the next while should consider Don't Starve. The whole process of gathering supplies, and making a go of surviving in the wild while fending off starvation, madness, and predators is quite entertaining.'^[5]Hardcore Gamer Magazine however was more negative, giving the game only a 2.5/5 rating and saying, 'Unless there’s a major update in the near future, you’d be better off waiting until it inevitably becomes part of an indie bundle so that you can briefly jump in and enjoy its first few hours. Until then, your money and time should be spent elsewhere.'^[6]

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Don't Starve was a finalist for the grand prize and 'Excellence in Design' subcategory at the 2014 Independent Games Festival awards ceremony; it also received honorable mentions for 'Excellence in Visual Art' and 'Excellence in Audio.' ^[7]

Trivia

• Upon starting a game in the PlayStation 4 version of Don't Starve, Wilson's origin will play, however the scene where Wilson cuts his hand is skipped to the part where he drips the blood into the beaker, which has been recolored to blue.

Gallery

• Promotional image for Don't Starve featuring Wilson

• Another promo image featuring different monsters

• Promo image with Wilson and the shadow of a Treeguard

• A very early alpha version of the game

• The Mega Pack for console, featuring both Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together

References

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1. ↑http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/06/10/dont-starve-on-ps4/ Jamie Cheng, Co-Founder Klei Entertainment, Playstaion.Blog June 10th, 2013
2. ↑https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69HeuLNN87w
3. ↑http://youtu.be/N0QhvmisGWU Don't Starve Cinematic Trailer: Forbidden Knowledge, August 1st, 2013
4. ↑http://forums.kleientertainment.com/showthread.php?21962-Post-Launch-RoadmapDS Roadmap Kevin Forbes, Klei Forums, August 1st, 2013
5. ↑http://www.ae-infinite.com/2013/04/review-dont-starve-pc.html Armchair Empire Don't Starve Review
6. ↑http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2013/04/28/review-dont-starve/ Hardcore Gamer Magazine Don't Starve Review
7. ↑http://www.gamespot.com/articles/independent-games-festival-awards-finalists-revealed/1100-6416996/

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