How many copies has Don't Starve sold?

indielist estimates Don't Starve has sold between 6,452,856 and 15,056,664 units (median 10,754,760), derived from its 113,208 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Don't Starve?

Don't Starve was published by Klei Entertainment, developed by Klei Entertainment. See Klei Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Don't Starve released?

Don't Starve was released in 2013.

How many reviews does Don't Starve have on Steam?

Don't Starve has 113,208 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Don't Starve worth playing?

Steam players rate Don't Starve 97% positive across 113,208 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Don't Starve

Apr 23, 2013 Adventure $9.99

Developer Klei Entertainment Publisher Klei Entertainment

Profile updated May 2026

Survival mechanics define this indie title, which challenges players to endure harsh environments through resource gathering and crafting. Since its 2013 debut, the game has maintained a strong standing with 32,875 reviews on Steam. These user metrics indicate a 96% positive rating, reflecting consistent performance within the survival genre.

Don't Starve is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 113,208 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Klei Entertainment with publisher Klei Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.5 million to 15.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Don't Starve can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

113,208

Positive

97%

Steam appid

219740

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

2,037

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 12:40 UTC · 24h peak 2,037

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.5M to 15.1M

units (median: 10.8M)

≈ $36.8M to $85.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.5M median 15.1M

+ How is this calculated?

113,208 reviews × NB(95) = 10,754,760 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	95

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Don't Starve at roughly 6.5 million to 15.1 million copies, with a median around 10.8 million, derived from its 113,208 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $61.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-12.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Don't Starve sold?: indielist estimates Don't Starve has sold between 6,452,856 and 15,056,664 units (median 10,754,760), derived from its 113,208 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Don't Starve?: Don't Starve was developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Klei Entertainment.
Who published Don't Starve?: Don't Starve was published by Klei Entertainment, developed by Klei Entertainment. See Klei Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Don't Starve released?: Don't Starve was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Don't Starve have on Steam?: Don't Starve has 113,208 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Don't Starve worth playing?: Steam players rate Don't Starve 97% positive across 113,208 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Don't Starve can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Don't Starve Together, Subnautica, The Long Dark, Subnautica: Below Zero, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Klei Entertainment's other releases and Klei Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Don't Starve sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Don't Starve page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.