Review: Don't Starve (PS4)

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Don't Starve originally came out on PC and created a solid fan-base for itself by being a really fun survival/crafting game with a humorous gothic-lite style. It kept interest up by being constantly updated with new features and plenty of secrets, growing from its initial impressive size to a huge epic of carving out a life in a hostile land, if only you can manage to avoid the many endless ways death can cut the adventure short. There's lands to explore, a giant network of caves underground, monsters of all shapes and sizes, tons of resources if only you can figure out how to both collect use them best, and, if you can find it, an Adventure mode to provide a bit of plot to counterbalance the free-form Survival mode. Don't Starve is loaded with content, but it requires a motivated player to get to it.

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Don't Starve is a fantastic, huge, deadly ball of entertainingly gothic survival. It requires a self-motivated player to get the most from it, but once you start to learn its systems, each game lasts a bit longer than the previous one, and the ability to experience more of the world reveals more secrets and avenues of exploration. Restarting from scratch after each death is tough, but each new play-through gets a bit more efficient, until systems that were taking a week to access in earlier attempts become just another goal to clear on day 2. The initial startup may be work, but the fun of exploration beckons once you've earned a spot in the world, and it feels like a privilege that's been earned. Even though that privilege is sure to eventually end in an inglorious death, it's impossible not to look a little farther and experiment a little more. The world may be strange and dangerous, but with a little luck and a whole lot of experience, you might be able to tame it, eventually.

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