Don't Starve: Pocket Edition Reviews

Great, but flawed

Aria Angel

I’ve followed Don’t Starve since the beta, and the Pocket Edition is a surprisingly good port. However, no new system is without its kinks. Within a week of playing I stumbled across some very annoying bugs that either caused me to lose a lot of progress (which when you’re like me and impatiently roving along for your favorite character, it gets really tedious really fast). Two of the most common bugs for me were if I tried interacting with menus too much, sometimes it would completely lock me out and I wouldn’t be able to interact with anything, UI and ingame. This happened several times in the ruins where I’d desperately stop to heal only to be locked out and mauled by Nightmare Splumonkeys due to rookie mistakes (me being a sissy kept me away from the ruins in the past.) Another quite annoying bug I’ve come across is that if I receive a call while in the game, it immediately crashes after a few seconds. Two bugs is not all that bad and it only took me a good few days to stumble across them which is equally not as terrible. However, it’s not just bugs that make the game difficult. It’s the controls, which can really only be faulted by the platform, not the game. Precise targeting and movement is a tedious task, especially kiting and targeting certain mobs. Eating, cooking, and planting takes three times as long as it normally would (though the cooking part is made a little easier since you can simply tap the item in your inventory when close to a certain object to interact with them), and combat with more than one mob becomes a death trap. For example, trying to get involved with a Hound on Beefalo battle. Without paying EXTREMELY close attention, you can easily get locked into swatting the beefalo on accident and having two armies gore you into proverbial Swiss cheese. Although the game has some cons to it, it still is not a bad game. Having gone to college has cut me off from PC gaming and Don’t Starve. But the pocket edition at least allows me to relive some old nostalgia. The art style is amazing, the mechanics are splendid, and the lore is out of this world. The world will tell you a story if you pay attention to it, such as the set pieces. You can find a skeleton with a spear surrounded by hounds teeth by a herd of beefalo and from that you can infer so much. Was he a rancher? An unfortunate hunter? And the world below the surface tells an even bigger story. What happened to the civilization deep below the ground, and where are they now? Only by replaying the game and scouring every detail with every character can fill in some of the blanks and the rest is left to your imagination. That’s what makes a game great is when it lays out the pieces and you must fill in the rest. tl;dr Mobile port has some really not fun bugs, but the game is still super good. Worth every penny.

2nd Favorite game!!! But somethings missing...

uslgrad

Dear, Klei Entertainment, Don’t starve has been a favorite since I started playing it, and that hopefully won’t change in the future. However, I’m kinda bummed out about the absence of Don’t Starve Together in the App Store! My only source that I’m able to play this outstanding game on is my IPhone. I’m fairly new to the fandom and the game, but I already know enough to survive at least until day 23 (And counting) and I wanna play with some friends. This app already gets some serious kudos from yours truly for being an awesome game, so let’s make this even better! Reagan E. Moore.

Hard but fun adventure

rocket9870

I have played this game for a long time and have always enjoyed. It is a expensive game but as long as you are motivated you can have fun. This game is easy to learn the basics and has so much things to explore.

Too many bugs

Dommybuns

I love this game, but it’s difficult to enjoy with all these bugs.

I want this for DS and R of G.

kawaii kitten 593

So... where is the command menu? Where you can spawn things like the “Chester” command so I’m just sayin, add the debug menu and the have everything mode like that so just saying Also I’m sorry for ruining your time if you’re working on it take care! And... DoNT STaRve

Very good

FluffyEatsSouls

i got my moneys worth.

There’s some bugs...

Kardy G

There’s probably plenty of bugs to name off but I just want to name off an annoying one, No contact. What I mean by no contact is that sometimes (not often) the screen won’t let me tap on anything but the joystick to move, the first time it happened to me was when night was about to come. I needed to make a torch and I couldn’t do it on time because I couldn’t interact with the crafting menu, this lead to Charlie killing me. I hope Klei pays more attention to iOS seeming I wouldn’t want $5 going to waste. Other than the bugs I’m sure it’d be great to play on iOS.

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