Just once you thought you’d explored each nook and cranny of Don’t Starve‘s nightmare otherworlds (plural), a brand new set of porcine issues current themselves. Hamlet, begining a fast spin by way of early entry in the present day, is one other growth for Klei’s survival motion RPG sandbox. This one takes Wilson and his sketchy friends to a brand new, much more civilised land. There’s a city run by aristocratic pigfolk, trap-laden ruins, the standard bundle of large new boss monsters to tussle with and the looming menace of a coming Aporkalypse. The launch trailer is hamming it up beneath.
Up till now, Don’t Starve was largely about self-sufficiency and scraping collectively the sources you wanted from the land. With a city hub full of outlets, and homes inside you could purchase and stay in safely, this places a recent spin on the Don’t Starve method, letting gamers focus a bit extra on the dungeon-delving journey facet of issues, moderately than the titular hunger avoidance. Some of the brand new creatures lurking within the jungle look fairly intimidating – spiders are unhealthy sufficient, however an enormous spider that’s additionally a gorilla is simply foolish. Also, is {that a} hippopotamoose I see within the trailer?
While not formally flagged as early entry on Steam, Klei point out that the present model of Hamlet isn’t fairly finished, and will probably be formally in testing for an additional month. They reckon that all the pieces must be all crackled up and able to serve by December sixth. Their official early entry discussion board can be found here. Accompanying this early entry launch is the return of The Forge event to multiplayer spinoff Don’t Starve Together. In it, six gamers crew up and throw down within the enviornment in opposition to swarms of monsters and the considerably much less civilised Grand Forge Boarrior.
Don’t Stave: Hamlet is out now on Steam for £5.19/€5.69/$6.99. Due to a twist of Steam bundle pricing (and me proudly owning all the pieces however Hamlet and Oxygen Not Included), the Klei Survival Bundle gave me Hamlet for a preposterous £0.03 – sure, three literal pennies – on prime of Oxygen Not Included’s already-discounted £10.44 price ticket. Your mileage could differ.
