How many people are playing Don't Starve right now?

Don't Starve has 1,279 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 2,411 and an all-time peak of 16,556 on Oct 2014.

What is the all-time peak player count of Don't Starve?

16,556 concurrent players on Oct 2014.

When was Don't Starve released on Steam?

Don't Starve was released on Steam on 23 Apr 2013.

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Don't Starve Audience · SteamPeaks

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Don't Starve

GameApp ID 219,740by Klei EntertainmentReleased 23 Apr 2013

App ID219,740

Release date23 Apr 2013

Engine—

Install size10.0 GB

TypeGame

Last update26 Oct 2023

Steam DeckPlayable

DLC3

DeveloperKlei Entertainment

Changenumber37,432,492

Price$2.49

Packages0

PublisherKlei Entertainment

SystemsWindows · macOS · Linux

Followers—

Depots16

Don't Starve

Klei Entertainment
Released 23 Apr 2013·App 219740

Steam user reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

96.5%· 113.4K reviews

Recent Very Positive · 94%

SteamPeaks Rating

96.4 Overwhelmingly positive

Recent 30 days 90.6

How it works ›

Playing now

1,279

−107 vs. yesterday

7.7%of peak

All-time peak

16,556

Oct 2014

Updated 5 minutes agoData by

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Metadata Packages DLC3 Depots16 Requirements Install size Configuration Cloud saves

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Hours, Honestly

How long people play Don't Starve

Every game How this is computedComputed 15 hours ago

Median hours

25.1 h

of 600 sampled reviewers, reviews since 4 Jul 2026

Middle half

8.0 h to 62.2 h

25th to 75th percentile; one in ten past 202 h

Under 2 hours

9.0%

reviews written inside the refund window; median 14.2 h at writing

Over 100 hours

18.0%

of the sampled reviewers, total playtime

Cost per hour

$0.10per hour

at today’s price, $2.49 (−75%), over the median

Total hours of the sampled reviewers · share of 600 reviews

under 1 h4.8%

1–2 h2.5%

2–5 h8.8%

5–10 h13.8%

10–20 h15.2%

20–50 h24.2%

50–100 h12.7%

100 h and more18.0%

Finish funnel · achievements by global unlock share

No funnel yet

Don't Starve lists no achievements on its store page, so there is no unlock share to order and no funnel to draw.

Playtime is that of people who reviewed, from the 600 reviews SteamPeaks sampled for Don't Starve: their total hours when the sample was read, and the hours they had when writing (the refund-window share). Reviewers have usually played more than owners who never wrote a review. Recomputed daily. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.

Streamer Effect

Do streams move Don't Starve?

Every game How this is computedNot sampled

Don't Starve is not in the Twitch ring: viewers are sampled every 10 minutes for the hundred most played games and every watched game (351 games since 3 Sep 2026), so there is no viewer series to set against its players yet. Watching the game adds it to the ring.

Best Time to Play

When Don't Starve is busiest

How this is computedHourly sample 11 minutes ago

Needs four weeks of hourly samples, 2 on file (73 hourly rows since 5 Sep 2026, 08:00 UTC). The weekly activity job writes the profile once 4 distinct weeks fall inside its 8-week window; the fourth week of samples begins on 21 Sep 2026, so the heatmap can appear with the job’s first run after that.

Lifespan

How games like Don't Starve hold their players

Every game How this is computedCurves computed 3 days ago

Don't Starve’s monthly averages begin in Jan 2013, more than two months after its 23 Apr 2013 release, so its series is not a launch curve and the job leaves it off rather than measure from the wrong start. The cohort’s own curve is shown.

Share of the launch level by month since launch · games · 13,558 games at launch

Middle half of gamesMedian gamesHalf of launch

The band is the 25th to 75th percentile share of the launch level among games at each month since launch, with their median as the line; a game joins a curve after 6 months of averages. Recomputed weekly, last on 5 Sep 2026. How this is computed. Data by SteamPeaks.com.