Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 06:19 am
Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ – Adventure Game Review
Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ is a Adventure game from Klei Entertainment Inc., first launched in 2nd April 2021.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,112+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ Stand Out
Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition+ brings the award winning survival game enjoyed by over 20 million players to Apple Arcade! This version includes the original Don’t Starve along with the complete Reign of Giants content expansion. Enjoy the classic uncompromising wilderness survival game on the go with your iPad or iPhone. Just remember…Don’t Starve!
Play as Wilson, an intrepid Gentleman Scientist who has been trapped and transported to a mysterious wilderness world. Wilson must learn to exploit his environment and its inhabitants if he ever hopes to escape and find his way back home.
A full cast of playable characters can be unlocked, each with their own special abilities! Choose your favourite and enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.
Key Features:
Optimized for Touch: New intuitive touch interface lets you explore, fight, craft and manage inventory with ease (Controllers also supported)!
Includes the “Quality of Life” Update & Content: Tame and ride wild Beefalo! Build gates, fences, new walls and mini signs! Also adds the drippy goo-spitting “Ewecus” to your world.
Includes Reign of Giants Expansion: Two additional playable characters (Wigfrid & Webber), New Seasons and “Giants” to conquer (or simply survive), and new biomes to explore!
Uncompromising Survival & World Exploration: No instructions. No help. No hand holding. Start with nothing and craft, hunt, research, farm and fight to survive.
No Sweat Mode: Okay, so there’s maybe a little compromising. This special mode is designed to help new players or those who just want to hone their survival skills at a more relaxed and forgiving pace.
Dark and Whimsical Visuals: 2D characters and odd creatures inhabiting a unique 3D world.
Randomly Generated New Worlds: Want a new map? No problem! At any time you can generate a new living and breathing world that hates you and wants you to die.
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
-Fix for iCloud functionality
Download & Availability
Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Don't Starve: Pocket Edition+ on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game it is so good it is just like Minecraft.
This is a AWESOME game, but theres 1 thing Id like to be added: bows and arrows. Like, theres no cheap way to get ranged weapons mainly because feathers only have a %50 drop chance when birds die and reeds are in one biome and are not relocatable so its hard to get blow darts it would be nice to have cheap ranged weapons a bow should be crafted at a science machine and cost 2rope 5twigs and 1grass maybe there could be a armor slot for amulets and quivers which should be crafted with 3 pig skin and 3 rope and could give you 2 storage which can only hold arrows which should be craft with 2 sticks 1 rope and 2 flint to get 5 arrows. Maybe even they can have some varietys like thulecite , sleep , poison (maybe with red caps) and fire. So thats our suggestion for a good weapon Also, why does it show Wagstaff? He cannot be played in game despite the video also we need DST and the other dlcs in arcade.
When is dont start together coming to mobile.
The premise of this game is awesome and the graphics and audio are incredible! Every time we open this game we get sucked in for hours.
We have been looking for a fun survival game that never gets boring and THIS IS IT! We get to run around looking for resources and crafting new items, allowing us to think of new strategies to play with! We are always trying to aim for a higher score because if we die, we have to restart! That allows us to keep trying new things and aiming higher so we can get better! There are also multiple characters to use so you can try to unlock them and use them to progress through the game. Anyway, this game is awesome! Thank you for making this! And if you can, can you please try to put more dont starve games like dont starve shipwrecked on apple arcade? Thank you for your time.
We have every title in the Dont Starve Universe, None of them have disappointed, this game is a very different survival – exploration game with fun mechanics and a very interesting art style. While the game is perfect on other devices, the mobile version has some pretty terrible controls, honestly.
We love dont starve because its not two hard our favorite character is cester we want the cester plushie soooooo bad we hope our parents say yes:).
So we have this game, its very good, but when we open the game and Im listening to music like on spotify, it will pause the music instantly. This is pretty annoying and we dont know why it happens since it doesnt happen with any other apple arcade game we have. Also sometimes when Im playing the game, itll randomly get VERY framey and will lag, will randomly pause on a frame (especially when Im in combat), and our game will sometimes even crash which can be a NIGHTMARE if we havent saved the game recently. Aside from these glaring issues, great game.
The game is great and Id give it 5 stars but it glitches and the screen will blackout without loading and cause you to loose your saved game.
So we have ben a dont starve player/fan for a while now! We first started playing Dont Starve Together and had a blast! So we decided to try the mobile version for ios so we did and it was okay. We have a problem though it NEVER EVER saves its sooo rare it dosesvsn when we click save and quit and also it keeps crashing / freezeing. And for the suggestion please give dst on switch chat and console commands, give this game that too.. People would love it especially us. Well thanks for the fun time definitely did NOT have a fun typeing this it was hard cause we kept misspelling words anyways byyeee.
This game is truly amazing we love every aspect of it but the when we tried to connect a controller it would let us pick things up.
This game is really fun! We loved watching people play Dont Starve, and never really had a way to play it until this! Thank you Kiel! One glitch (we think not really sure) that wont seem to go away is that whenever we start a new world, we get the same skeleton loot. Three chests. One with tools and blueprints in it, one with food, and one with crafting materials. Im not really complaining about it, because, its very helpful for starting out, but we just want to know why its happening. Also, why dont you add Dont Starve Together to mobile.
Our only issue is when im playing an we save the game. When im come back to start it up it dont save the days we had. Ive been on day 10 for a week. We close out correctly, we save & quit. We get to the main menu an close the app. We open the game later on an its back to day 10 again. So im closed the game uninstalled an reinstalled an its still causing us an issue. If im about to pay for this app so we can have in our phone its going to be a waste of money since its not correctly saving our days in the game. Ive gone up to day 21 saved & quit closed app once its on the main menu. Then signed in to be stuck at day 10 again. Its ridiculous. Its not going to be worth paying 6.99 for the game. Im doing the 1 month free trial an for it not to correctly save our days! Its ridiculous. Possibly not worth the money since its having an issue!!! We really love this game we played it in our ps4 now that it was stolen we downloaded it to our phone an its been nothing but issues. Possibly wont be worth spending money for it not to save our days correctly. Thanks. If any other advice to do to fix this issue then please share how to do that. Other wise well we aint paying for it.
We tried this game, for the first time, and there was no tutorial or guidance of any kind. It just threw us into a survival game where we didnt know what we were doing. We died pretty quickly, after doing nothing but harvesting a bunch of stuff and crafting a few basic items we didnt know how to use. (Pickaxe? Whats that for? Doesnt seem to actually break rocks as it says it does.).
The most recent update completely broke controller compatibility. We bought a controller just to play this game.
After the update it is no longer possible to play with the control, it does not identify the control correctly, we can walk, but we cannot execute the actions, and when we open the controls tab, it appears as if we were in touch mode. Don't Starve also doesn't appear in the Profiles tab of the controller in the iPhone settings, as if it didn't recognize it as a game.
Add Shipwrecked and Hamlet to this game, Please! And make the cave editable like in Dont Starve Together. And Wheres Wagstaff!? Also add him to the game! CAPPEESH! ASAP! PRONTO! NOW! AND DONT DELAY.
So dont stave is a LOT of fun but we cant get past day 2 pls help :3.
We love DONT starve together DONT starve shipwrecked DONT starve hamlet and DONT starve pocket edition+ still can you fix the bug where you get kicked out of the game for opening the game and you immediately get kicked out of the app plz fix that bug Ty.
We went in blind, like, we knew nothing about the game, Ive only heard people talk about it, and how good it is, and its REALLY good, we were surprised how creative and fun this game is, the crafting system, just, everything! We wish co-op existed in the game, it would be so fun to play with friends.
This game is so fun but theres a few glitches Ive been playing this game for a while there is a glitch where we attack something but when we hit it sometimes it just goes and attacks everything when Im not even holding the button also theres this glitch that when we reload the game it starts lagging like crazy and we mean like CRAZY the sounds completely stop the game keeps freezing and sometimes even crashing but overall its a really fun game.
Now, we are going to get straight to the errors, which mostly contain glitches. Why Im rating this game five stars is because we absolutely LOVE IT and we are straight-up addicted to it. More compliments below the -Errors- section! (Btw Im an iPad player, so the references we make are from a touch-screen point of view.) -Errors- So we were recently playing the game and had to leave. When we came back into the game and continued, our game just uncontrollably started spamming the Destroy button (Aka the red fist thingy) and destroyed our fences, and pretty much destroyed the majority of our stuff. The big, big downside was that we were right in a pig village. We tried the best we could to stop our game from spamming the destroy button, but it did nothing. Then a pig came over. And our game punched the pig. And then the whole village of ten or so pigs came over and they all started attacking us and, well, we died. So that glitch was really frustrating! Theres also another glitch where we cant move, and how it starts is by having the moving circle thing (The way you move your character) on a little thing that you can interact with. Then, when we try to move our character by using the circle thing, our game thinks that Im touching whatever the circle thing is on and it wont let us move. Its kinda easy to deal with it though, but the solution doesnt always work. -Compliments- One of the things that we seriously want to note is the AMAZING graphics! We have no idea if this was AI generated or actually drawn on a screen or a paper, but these drawings are truly amazing! They are so, so detailed, every single line.. Its just awesome! We also love the music, as it really gives off a vibe! We also think its cool that you can customize your worlds features, so that it doesnt always have to be one mode. Overall, we love this game! It is literally one of the best games Ive ever owned, and we really look forward to the next update.
We remember playing this game for PlayStation 4, its nice to see a port of this for our iPhone! Ive been enjoying it so far no issues with the game itself. Our only concern is that our iPhone 14 Pro Max gets hot while playing this game, dont know why it does. Ive played other games on our phone that require more specs to run on. Is there any way to solve this overheating? Because we enjoy playing this game, easily our favorite mobile game.
Dear developers & viewers who might be looking for a good game! Ive played this for a while and its so amazing! Its super fun, and exceeds in challenging you with something different each season. Rein of giants is a incredible add on and we enjoy it much, we also recommend this game because its interesting, as you upgrade and get more materials each season and features extra characters that all have different pros and cons. We hope you play it and have fun! Ps. All the characters names start with W except Maxwell because M is an upside down W. Thank you so much, and we appreciate all the hard work put into this game.
We always turn off spiders bc we dont like them in game or in real life..haha and we cant fully experience the game that way unfortunately, so we ask that the developers please add in a less scary way of getting silk please.
Yea no buts just a good game to play on the go.
We love this game so much our brother and us both have this game downloaded on our devices. The game can be (REALLY) tricky at times but still, a very fun game that we recommend! So heres the update idea we have (because we dont know were else to suggest it lol): If you drop a peace of food, A timer could appear and count down to five. If someone doesnt pick it up in time a monster will appear and eat you and say, Five second rule, Thats it, pretty simple idea that we would love to see in the game (we doubt it, but it at least feels better to talk about our ideas). Also, some game tips: 1. Eating and cooking mandrakes will skip ahead one day! 2. If you play as Webber, Pigs is will automatically attack you (sine youre basically a spider) Thats it, just two tips lol. Well alright thats it! Have a good day/night and have fun playing if you decide to download the game.
This is an overall amazing game we have so much fun on it.
This is a really awesome game!It is a great game for families to play together! We still dont know how to find the gold and we know a lot of people cant find it either. If you do write a review and tell us! This game is adventurous and it feels like YOU are really trying to survive and not starve. Someone asked how to set the game on different survivals first: you have to delete a game and then it says new game. Second: you push new game and then you choose your character and if you look down it says new world or anything else similar to that. Again adventure mode is on that if anyone needs that.
This game is all types of fascinating. But it lags after a while. Also, when you apple custom settings they dont really work. We have given it time but nothing. Overall a great game though besides the minor issues.
This game suddenly stopped allowing us to open it, please fix.
The only dlc was reign of Giants and they sell ship wrecked but not hamlet we hope you guys add ship wrecked and hamlet.
Theres no respawn once youre dead youre dead but still fun game.
We have encountered bugs yeah but they arent that bad usually. BUT HOW DO we GET WAGSTAFF.
The game is fun it just keeps kicking us out in the middle of gameplay.
But will be better as the option to have another person with you sadly it's not important but we do want it happen is really fun to play with friends and family and you and also add more variety of things.
Fun game, however, we wish there was support for Apple keyboards so we can play the game like the PC edition of the game.
We like game but like theres random bucks like not letting us turn our camera like why or just random crashs it was one time the game crashed before we were able to ours the gold border hopefully be able to improve this game.
We picked this up from Apple Arcade as Ive been playing this game and Together since 2015. However, two of our worlds have simply disappeared. Any devs have an idea as to why this has happened? Great game nonetheless and the port is fantastic other than it deleting our game.
This game could be amazing, but we cant really play it because of bugs that appear to be specific to this platform. Im surprised it made it in to Apple Arcade.
This game seems like it could be a ton of fun.However, every time we equip a backpack it blocks the action buttons which is extremely aggravating, because the only option is to drop your backpack.
But unfortunately this port doesnt work. The game starts up and lets us get everything started but when you actually start the game we get a warning and then some script saying we have to either end game or form but the game freezes on this screen so you cant select either.
We love this game. After coming back to it we noticed the hud size was much smaller. We cant even tell what Im trying to select and you have to click multiple times at the item before it recognizes the selection. Bring back the option to increase the hud size!!!!! Why would you make it smaller.
Would love to give this game a try but the most simple of bugs, a ui glitch, has persisted for over a year and makes using a backpack unplayable on iPad. A simple bug with a simple fix. Make it playable and Ill update our review but until then literally unplayable.
We got to play it for about 10 minutes before it started being weird and wouldnt let us create a save file after we forgot to save and it crashed. Now its kicking us out everytime we try to open the app.
Fun game, however, when we try to open it it crashes immediately befote we can even see the menu. We have restarted our phone and it still doesnt work. Please fix this.
Very buggy, we will play then eventually, our character will start bugging out and either it wont move anymore or it starts automatically picking up stuff and not moving and glitching out.. One of our favorite games but we keep dying when the game glitches and we cant seem to figure out how to fix it.
This game is amazing! Now, its not as good as Dont starve togetherbut this one is outstanding. We were insanely overjoyed when we heard that you could also get dont starve on mobile. (Even though this was the first version but we had dont starve together at the time) The game mechanics are insanely easy to master! And there is always something new to do! Got the science machine? Time to get the alchemy engine! Got it? Time to get the prehistilitator! Got it? Time to get- you know what we mean The game is quite fun itself and the characters are bright and adorable! (Wellmost of them,) we were kinda bummed this wasnt multiplayerbut we have dont starve together so its ok.. -So yeah its pretty good! There are a few glitches that have only happened to us once in a blue moonbut its because they are always being fixed. Before we close we just wanna say Klei is amazing. But DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME trying to get Wes. You will regret it we swear Rating: Amazing job klei.
So hi we love this game and we play it on Steam, then we were wondering if you (directed to Klei) could add Hamlet to mobile? You dont have to be fast and we understand if you cant but please consider it.
This one is buggy just like all the other reviews say we accidentally made 4 hay walls and we did not know what to do with them So we put them in a chest. Then we go to do something else and when we click to grab food it starts placing the walls that where still in the chest. There are also glitched textures for the fancy looking berry bush when replanting them. (Ps. LETS STARVE TO GET HER :).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.10
- Size: 961.24 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Klei Entertainment Inc.
Last updated: 26th March 2025 | Genre: Adventure | Developer: Klei Entertainment Inc.