When comparing Don't Starve Together vs Die Young, the Slant community recommends Don't Starve Together for most people. In the question“What are the best survival games on PC?” Don't Starve Together is ranked 10th while Die Young is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Don't Starve Together is:
Getting together a group of friends to play Don't Starve Together adds a lot of enjoyment to the game. If you're all first timers, learning how to survive as you go along is amazing, since you get to share in the learning process and the experience together. As you craft and build your own forts, farms, and more, you find more and more ways to learn how to survive, making things less daunting than if you play the game alone.
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Pros
Pro Couch co-op makes the game even more fun as you all learn together
Getting together a group of friends to play Don't Starve Together adds a lot of enjoyment to the game. If you're all first timers, learning how to survive as you go along is amazing, since you get to share in the learning process and the experience together. As you craft and build your own forts, farms, and more, you find more and more ways to learn how to survive, making things less daunting than if you play the game alone.
Pro Pleasantly twisted sense of humor
There's a dark sense of humor that pervades the game. There's a humanoid spider boy who can grow a beard of silk. There's a living chest called Chester who acts like a dog. There's also silly info text, werepigs, trees that retaliate when you chop them, and many other things.
Pro Deep and varied crafting system
The crafting system has a lot of depth to it and there are tons of items to make. Starting with the recipe for a torch and a pickaxe. You can also make weapons, armor, and various laboratories that enable new technologies. Building new stuff and advancing is the key to surviving the coming winter.
Pro Tweak the gameplay settings to fit any skill level
The game gives you a lot of customization options. You can change the length of day, weather patterns, and spawn rates for resources and monsters. This allows you to adjust the difficulty level to suit your skill and preference.
Pro Unique mix of 2D and 3D art offers a change of pace
Don't Starve Together has a very unique art style that places two-dimensional characters in a three-dimensional setting. Even the waves in the sea look like cardboard cutouts used in a puppet show. This look and feel to the graphics is a nice change of pace from ultra-realistic games.
Pro The further you get, the more you will learn
Starting out you'll only be gathering twigs and grass, maybe chop a tree. You'll also gather basic food such as mushrooms and carrots. Then you'll start building your encampment, learning how the day/night cycle and the seasons work. Later on you'll start building massive farms, refridgerators, fortifications, and many other things. All of this is done for the sake of not starving.
As the game progresses, you will encounter mechanics such as drought, forest fires, the rainy, season, the cold and many others. To counteract these you need to plan properly and will probably die the first time around. Once your knowledge reaches a certain level, you'll be able to survive indefinitely.
Pro Great replay value
Don't Starve Together has randomly generated (customizable) levels, unlockable characters, a story mode, and you can also play it with up to 5 other friends. All of this helps keep subsequent attempts/playthroughs fresh.
Pro Realistic game mechanics
Developers of Die Young tried to make the protagonist of the game as human as possible. Not only do you have limited health, running and jumping diminishes your stamina, shoes improve your moving speed and weapons immensly increase your chances to survive confrontations.
Pro Enjoyable parkour gameplay
Die Young has lots of parkour that you get to do while exploring the island. The parkour mechanics are really well-done -- the controls are fluid and it's easy to master. The parts of the map that you can grab are easy to notice since they have white paint on them.
Timing is of essence when doing parkour. There are some long-distance jumps where you have to calculate your timing in order to avoid falling to your death.
Pro Lots of side missions
Besides the main storyline, there are quite a lot of fun side missions that can be found while exploring around the island.
Pro Interesting story premise
The player plays as a young womand who has been kidnapped and is stranded on this Mediterranean island without knowing how or why. You need to find a way to survive and escape. Curiosity to know more about what happened or what this island is drives the player to explore the island and find more about it and the story of why you were kidnapped.
Pro Great Mediterranean setting
The game is set in a gorgeous Mediterranean island filled with rich history waiting to be explored and pieced together by gathering various information from NPCs or items scattered around.
Cons
Con Steep learning curve
The first few attempts will last only a couple of in-game days. This is because the game has various punishing mechanics, which you can only learn through trial and error. One such mechanic is the darkness, which will kill you in under a minute if you don't have a light source. Followed by packs of hounds that randomly spawn to kill you. In most cases preparation is key and you can't prepare without knowledge.
Con Can get repetitive
You'll have to repeatedly collect a lot of basic materials like twigs, grass, and ore. This is because most of the starting recipes share the same required materials. Even later in the game you'll be doing many repetitive tasks. Gathering enough firewood for winter is especially bad because you have to chop down dozens of trees. All of this is made worse by the limited inventory space, causing you to make the same trip multiple times.
Con You have to re-craft tools annoyingly often
The tools you need to fight and craft other tools have limited durability and you need to craft them often. This wouldn't really be an issue since the crafting system is well-done except for the fact that items usually have very little durability and you will often find yourself re-crafting tools which can become annoying in the long run.