Don't Starve: Pocket Edition

Daniel Deming

Negative review for the update (6/2) only. I used to play this daily, but the update made it unplayable. Controls are less responsive and often do the wrong thing, such as chopping a tree when I'm attempting to light it on fire, since the controls are iffy anyway, how am I supposed to fight bosses? And the new repeat button is just in the way and pointless. Accidentally bumping can cause you to waste materials and build a backpack instead of fighting an enemy. Make it optional, please!

will newman

the game on PC is great. I played this port for about 5 min, and I refunded, because of an annoying feature. If you try to tap something to pick it up, but it is withing an inch of the moving wheel, it assumes you are trying to move. That may not sound too bad, but it is a whole inch. That is big for a phoen screen. You can make the moving wheel smaller, but, infuriatingly, that doesn't really change the hitbox of it. If you aren't annoyed by this, you will probably enjoy the game.

Laura Timmel

As others have said: Good game, bad port. The movement, action, item, and UI controls are poorly implemented for touch and for smartphone-sized screens—imprecise, finicky, and just generally a frustration to use. This is far from the worst problem, but it illustrates the sloppiness with which Don't Starve was ported: item names, which only appear when you tap and hold on the item, aren't offset so they end up hidden by your fingertip.

A Google user

I love this game, but there are lots of bugs with the mobile phone version. It doesn't like to open the game, or access profiles occasionally, there seems to be lots of lag especially when opening the hub too. The graphics are not ported very well. It needs some updates to kill some bugs and adjust the graphics. It looks amazing on iOS, so I know it can be done.

A Google user

I have only one issue. There a bug that doesnt allow my touch to be recognized. For example, I die and when i am come back i cant move, interact with my hotbar, or pause so i can save and quit. It has happened a few times without me dying. It will save and then glitch for a second then i wont be able to do anything. Other than that, its a great game. Amazing graphics, great feel, and it has nice cinamatics.

A Google user

I've loved this game since it came out on steam for pc and I really like the click and drag aspect of it. The app is similar but I'd really appreciate it if the toggle for moving your character wasn't there and instead was the same as clicking anywhere on the screen like the pc version. The toggle makes it difficult to see where you're going because your finger is in the way most of the time while travelling and your character could possibly run right into a spider nest, hornets nest, or tall bird areas without noticing before it's too late to avoid. I want to be able to move my character around by clicking anywhere on the screen like the pc version and not only on items I can pick up. Does anyone else feel the same?

A Google user

Great game , I own all the dlc for PC and played quite a bit. I find the controls a little tough on mobile where you need to be able to time your attacks to kill pretty much anything in the game and have had many issues where the game freezes or is unresponsive. The change to cave temp I feel was a bad choice, there should be some kind of common ground. I enjoy a challenge but it isn't very appealing to be stuck by a fire or under a tree in the early game due to weather.