Don’t Starve Together

Enter an unexplored world full of strange creatures, gather resources and craft items for survival.

“Don’t Starve Together” throws you and one additional friend inside a randomly generated world. Explore the region, cut down trees, craft a campfire and, well, don’t starve. If you manage to gather enough resources, you can build a formidable camp with cooking pots, farms and even a fridge. It’s not all fun and games, though. If you don’t have a light source near you, strange creatures will find and kill you at night.

The game includes all seasons of the year. Each of them is challenging for its own reason. For example, food is scarce in winter and you need to protect your character from the cold. No matter what season it is, you’re constantly on the move to collect food and resources, which can be little bit stressful at times. If you want a more relaxed experience, the game includes a lot of settings to customize your world and lower the difficulty.

“Don’t Starve Together” is a challenging survival game with an excellent art style and a lot of interesting places to explore. The combat system is a bit weird, which somestimes makes it hard to deal with randomily appearing boss monsters. However, “Don’t Starve Together” is one of the few good survival games with couch co-op support, and (as we all know) surviving in a harsh world is a lot better when you have a friend around.

Why you should play it:

  • It is very satisfying when you finally manage to survive a full year!
  • You can customize your world extensively, e.g. turn off certain enermies.
  • Excellent art style and atmosphere.

Please note: “Don’t Starve Together” supports more than 2 players online, but only two people can play in splitscreen mode on the same console. A Steam version exists, but it does not include a splitscreen mode.

Last edited: 21.02.2024

Supported Platforms

  • PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 (PSN)
  • XBOX Series X/S, XBOX One (Microsoft Store)

This game may be available on other platforms. Please check out the official website for “Don’t Starve Together”, if your preferred platform isn’t listed.

Supported Input Devices

  • Regular Gamepad

Most couch co-op games require one gamepad per player (DualShock 4, DualSense, Nintendo Switch Pro Controller etc.), but sometimes you can share gamepads (PS5, XBOX Series X/S), use a single Joy Con (Switch) or let at least one person utilize a keyboard (PC). Please note: We can’t guarantee that your specific setup works with “Don’t Starve Together”.

Multiplayer Options

  • Local Multiplayer (Couch Co-Op)
  • Online Multiplayer
  • SharePlay on PSN (2 Players)

SharePlay (PSN) allows you to share local multiplayer games with friends over the internet. Only the host needs to own the game. SharePlay requires a paid PSN subscription and is limited to 60 minutes per session and a maximum of 2 players.

Download “Don’t Starve Together”

Before you buy: “Don’t Starve Together” supports more than 2 players online, but only two people can play in splitscreen mode on the same console. A Steam version exists, but it does not include a splitscreen mode.

We don’t use affiliate links, we don’t do paid listings, we just love good couch co-op games. Please support your favorite indie developers and—most importantly—have fun!

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About us

Great couch co-op games are hard to find? Not anymore!

We love couch co-op games. Nothing beats the joy of sitting in the same room, playing some fun games and experiencing the reactions of your friends first hand—especially during a pandemic, when you’re more often at home with your partner, family members or roommates. Sure, online multiplayer modes can be fun, too, but couch co-op has always been the best type of multiplayer games for us.

If you are like us, you play local multiplayer games on a regular basis, either with your kids or your friends. Every platform has some couch co-op classics, like “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” and “Super Mario Party” on Nintendo Switch or “Sackboy: A Big Adventure” on PS5. While these couch co-op games can be played over and over again, you may want to try something new from time to time. So, where do you find interesting, new titles? Sometimes you get great recommendations from friends, but most of the time you need to do your own research.

Most game stores like Steam, PlayStation/Microsoft Store or Nintendo eShop offer categories for local multiplayer games. However, they either feature just a handful of new games or list thousands of entries. Websites for couch co-op games do exist, but they try to list them all, even the not-so-good ones. Gaming related blogs and magazines write about couch co-op games from time to time, but it’s not their main subject. You probably don’t want to search on the internet for hours and hunt for hidden gems. You want to find great, new games without the hassle. That’s why we’ve came up with the idea for Couch Co-Op Favorites.

We create lists with handpicked couch co-op games—filterable by platform, player number and relevant features. On this website you can quickly find new games which have been tested by people like you. Save time on researching, spend more time with friends and family.

We love couch co-op games

We are a group of friends from Northern Germany. We have a deep passion for couch co-op games and did a lot of research on the subject in our student days. We don’t know all titles, but we certainly know a lot of excellent games for different platforms and audiences. We regularly play games, but we still identify as casual gamers. We believe that not every gaming related site needs to look like it has been made for stereotypical gamers. That’s why we’ve decided to and make this site look friendly and approchable.

Our mission is simple: We want to bring joy to people looking for good couch co-op games and we want to support indie developers, too.

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All games listed here are handpicked by us. We’re not paid by developers to feature their games. Developers may send us their games for free, but this doesn’t influence our opinon about these games. If we list a game, we genuinely like it. It’s that simple. No ads, no affiliate links, just good games.

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