Don't Starve: Hamlet

Don't Starve: Hamlet
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87
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81.695
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$6.99
Release date
8 November 2018
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87 (1 384 votes)

With new playable characters, biomes, creatures and seasonal effects; Wilson and the whole Don’t Starve cast of characters are spirited away to the thrills of exploration, adaptation and of course, starvation. Will you be ready for the Aporkalypse?

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Don't Starve: Hamlet system requirements

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  • OS:Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
  • Processor:1.7+ GHz or better
  • Memory:1+ gigs of RAM GB RAM
  • Graphics:Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:500 MB HD space
  • Sound:100% DirectX9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

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the.ringmaster55
the.ringmaster55

Game DLC World takes forever to load on large maps. I have to alt f4. I have turned graphics down and removed mods but takes about 2 mins to load, before I force quit the game.

Please fix.

zytahar
zytahar

The game is really fun and can keep you glued to your chair for hours. However, it can get quite frustrating at times, like when the guards set half the town on fire, including your base and yourself, in the middle of a downpour, while trying to fight the masked pig. It would be nice if they scrapped this whole fighting with torches idea. Also, the fog and hay-fever can sometimes be a bit too much. It's not necessarily the added difficulty that bothers me, but the effects are just really annoying (especially the fog, which cuts most of your visibility). Despite this, I completely recommend the game. It's not the easiest game to play, there's enough challenge in it to make it interesting and there's enough to do and explore to make it worth it.

duckwerks
duckwerks

I love this game. I hope the Klei makes more.

Dr. Useless
Dr. Useless

Manage a healthy balance between death-defying, life threatening jungle and ruin adventures where you are matched against an infinite number of dangers, and becoming the lord of capitalism amongst a city of pig people by effectively breaking their economy and selling them flower petals you harvested in the jungle by the hundreds and selling berries for more than you bought them for.

AstroBlaster
AstroBlaster

Fix the loading issue when changing default settings.

VERY BİG ASS
VERY BİG ASS

I dont download hamlettttttt ............

Chickenboo2
Chickenboo2

Fun, steep learning curve though, but good if you're like me and like that.

Инфэрюс
Инфэрюс

Nail in the coffin of singleplayer Don't Starve.

Mia Khalifa
Mia Khalifa

Its realy good, i recomend playing it and its worth buying, but it get boring when u have a lot of things

furseiseki
furseiseki

In hamlet you get to buy a house, decorate it, build your own town. Sounds exciting right? Think back to a creative game where you built an epic garden, a castle, or some cool undergound bunker somewhere. The seed was right, the location was right, and you had a load of resources to build the next big thing next to it or somewhere else.

now imagine you die to one of the umpteen klck-in-the-balls this game has (and hamlet has even more side-swiping dangers) Now all that? All your cool bases? All your cool decorations?

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beacontown
beacontown

Personally, I really enjoy Hamlet! I know it isn't everyone's favorite, but I find it really fun. This expansion doesn't bring quite as much gameplay as others, and therefore can feel pretty short, but I still think it's worth the money. For less than ten dollars, I have certainly gotten my money's worth out of it.

Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty darn quick and a little repetitive. However, until you get there, it's a challenge and a blast. This process takes quite a few hours, and that's assuming you have previous experience with Don't Starve in general. Additionally, it's completely unique from any other Don't Starve experience while maintaining the charm of the game. As long as you do different things each time, I think it has a fair amount of replayability. Even once it gets boring, just wait a week or two, or maybe try a character who is challenging for you... Hamlet Wes run, anyone?

Backdraft_|BC|
Backdraft_|BC|

Overly difficult. Having to read the Wiki to figure things out is annoying but needed. Things happen and there is no way to figure them out without reading. Breaking giant rocks to only get one rock sucks and now you have to chop stalks to get grass. I love the game but this DLC lacks and is just too hard.

jade282
jade282

I'm very disappointed with this installment. Firstly, it's abandoned by the devs, there are too many bugs, too many things that felt left incompletely. Secondly, what's the F is wrong with this "politically correct" attitude of games lately? The last of Us 2 is a sacrifice for those leftards, and this game too? They removed Warbucks for "culturally problematic", which I think mainly the character sound "racist" to those pigs. And then again, it was a fictional world, with pig instead of people. Still, some libertards or leftards found their own way to complain and the devs just remove a good character to please those "angry monkeys". I suppose in these days, the idiots are too strong and great in numbers that they can force any devs to correct their games politically.

Sean Prime
Sean Prime

I'm Sean Prime and I approve of this DLC!

Lyun Z
Lyun Z

though it would be like dst rog or shipwreck

im wrong

i died every 3-4 days cus dint know the mechanic

worth it and fun i would say its different experience

sgtjaney
sgtjaney

Don't get this extension both of the other dlcs are good but this one was digging for content and it's nowhere near the price you should pay for it. The difficulty in this dlc isn't fun like the other two it's hard but only because B's comes out of nowhere to kill you

Free Wifi
Free Wifi

A hard and creative take on the base Don't Starve gameplay and the optimal way to buy Wormwood for DST.

Freemoose
Freemoose

Adds so many new features and aspects to the game. Once again Klei have blessed us with a DLC that isn't just a new area, or some reskined features, but it's like playing an entirely different game. If you like the base game you have to get this DLC.

Karasu
Karasu

It offers various gameplay mechanics and amazing soundtrack. But pls don't stop updating :'(

relliott
relliott

The DLC seems great, but the framerate makes it almost unplayable. My laptop can run the other Don't Starve games just fine, with no noticeable lag. For some reason, this DLC runs at 4 frames per second. That's not an exaggeration; I had the frame counter up, and at one point that's how slowly it was running. For reference, my laptop could run The Witcher 3 at a slightly higher framerate than that.

Not sure why it's doing that. If I figure out a solution, I'll update my review.

Roc
Roc

Don't Starve: Hamlet Is A Good DLC It Adds An Entire New World, BUT It's Much Harder... I Was Turned Off By The Harder And Scarier Monsters And Those Scary Bug Guys, (I'm Scared Of Bugs) But After Playing It More... It's Super Fun! If You Don't Like Dying Then, Why Are You Playing Don't Starve? But Yes I'd Recommend Don't Starve: Hamlet. It's Not As Good As RoG & Sw (Reign Of Giants & Shipwrecked) But Worth The Price.

[SAP]CommanderA
[SAP]CommanderA

An interesting take on the game, probably not what people expected from Don't Starve, but a neat direction to take things in. If you liked Don't Starve, you will most likely like this, with all kinds of new plants and animals added in, plus the whole, Pigman Society thing. I would recommend it, but get it on sale.

개운죽맛먼칰인
개운죽맛먼칰인

please update hamlet and normal

Roger
Roger

After 90 in game days I decided to go to hamlet world and well... I was stuck in a loading screen. I waited up to one hour several times and to no avail. my save was "corrupted", rendering my months of play into nothing as I can not load the save. I can't even access default RoG world as I load the save It loads hamlet world loading screen instead (infinite loading) I had no choice but to abandon that sweet sweet save file of mine. my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. After some research I found on the klei.com that other people are experiencing this exact difficulty. and it's been years so they say. Why don't they don't fix this imperative bug? or at least feedback this problem? lots of people are asking them to fix this bug on their site. huge letdown as I was originally enjoying the RoG game.

Zero
Zero

i like this...its fun and i would rrecommend this game

al
al

NOW THIS IS A GREAT DLC PRODUCT. BUY IT, ITS VERY COOL!!

Outlaw Star - Gene Starwind
Outlaw Star - …

Whatever you thought you knew about the Don't Starve world... This game will teach you humility. Having started on the Don't Starve mobile/tablet versions years ago, I felt like I knew everything there was to know. I had saved Maxwell (several times in the same playthrough), handily beaten all the RoG bosses, all while making MacTusk and his cowardly son my b*tches every winter. I hadn't played in ages because I was quite convinced that Shipwrecked and other DLCs would simply bore me.

I'm glad I took the chance to give Hamlet a go. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. All of my instincts honed over hundreds of hours on other DLCs were nearly as useless. My first death to a Pog (of all things) was complicated by having been poisoned by some noxious frog legs while wearing a halo of gnats. This utterly humiliating beatdown was what I needed to light a fire under my arse and motivate me to learn the ins and outs of this awesome DLC.

Hunter
Hunter

Hamlet enhances Don't Starve's Vanilla experiences, but not in a "game breaking" way, rather by making the game more convenient and giving the player more options to play around with, particularly for base building.

There are a lot of new floors and there is even furniture you can get for oincs. There are shops, they let you trade items for oincs, which can then be used to buy items, including very rare items (deerclops eyeball, mandrakes, gears, living logs).

HOUSES! You can build houses, allowing you not have to worry about winter or any usual hazards. By far the most impactful change of the game for people building bases, as the houses can be expanded basically as long as you have resources and you can even put mobs into the houses.

Lampposts, late-game item that gives out infinite light, very snazzy and allows you to spend more time running around in your megabases without worrying about your supplies or anything. Most notable aspect of Hamlet is Merged crafting, prototyping an item or building will let you build it in all worlds. This is great for players who want a sense of progression across playthroughs and for people who are starting new runs, this is a great convenience allowing us to bypass the early game tech grind. This seems to apply in all the other DLC as well, which means you can get funky combinations of items and structures in Shipwrecked, Hamlet, and Reign of Giants.

MemeSoldier
MemeSoldier

Vanilla Don't Starve is the classic survival thing, RoG brings a lot of new cool mecanics, seasons, bosses etc. Shipwreck is a different and refreshing gameplay that keeps the same good vibe that made vanilla and RoG fun to play.
Hamlet is weird in every way, first things the game throws into your face is pigs everywhere, dangerous jungles with giant gorillas, ancient ruines with scorpios, strange trees, doing business with pigs, pig currency, pig warriors, pig anything...
It feels like there is a lot of features, but as a whole it's not very cohesive. Clearly it could be advertised as "more dlc" than the others dlc, like a dlc-game if that makes sense.
It's not like "bad", but RoG and Shipwreck are definetly more enjoyable.

Drake Bell
Drake Bell

Interesting DLC. It is extremely different and engaging, but there is just something about it that makes me feel slightly more negative about it compared to the other DLCs. I would still definitely get it though. Try it out and see for yourself because I don't think it would be a waste of money.

Winged_Entity
Winged_Entity

This is pretty great, would recommend but do not expect it to play like the other versions. This one's mechanics are different same as learning to build rafts in shipwrecked early on, this one is more difficult with other ways of surviving. Doing chores for the pigs will get you money, but getting the tools required to get relics and sell them will get you more. Don't go in expecting to survive the same way and you will love it

Meliora
Meliora

Hamlet is kind of like a crossover between Don't Starve and the S T O N K S meme.

Somewhat different, same core gameplay, still many different ways to die at the hands of some truly wacky creatures. (I love the imaginations of the Klei team, they come up with some really fun and whimsical stuff).

Also be warned, stealing grass is a crime punishable by death. Apparently.

Gentoo
Gentoo

This is my least favourites of the DLC for Don't Starve. The others add fun new game mechanics to suplement the main game. This one adds weird stuff that frankly isn't fun and does nothing for the base game. It is as if they tried to turn Don't Starve into an RPG and failed.

MotherIGotFury
MotherIGotFury

ONE OF THE BEST!!!
You wont regret this.

Smoky_Eggs
Smoky_Eggs

this game is hard but SUPER fun so play it.

ronnie radke's christmas shorts
ronnie radke's…

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G0D
G0D

Klei continues to release amazing DLC's that kick my ass and bring me to the point of insanity but I keep coming back. Hamlet is a very challenging and very unique addon. It adds plenty of new content and a whole new world to explore and thrive in. I love the addition of the pig village and player house which you can decorate and build to your hearts desire. My only qualm with this DLC is how tedious it can be to obtain the new currency system, Oincs. The safest way I have learned to get them without risking dying via dungeon crawling early game is by making shears and waiting until the various hedges around town grow out so you can trim them for 2 hedge clippings which net you 2 oincs, a house is 50 oincs. So that means in order to get the house you will be running around town picking up sh*t (when you pick it up a pig will run over and give you 1 oinc) and clipping hedges until you make up 50 oincs to buy the house, however once you get passed that point the DLC really opens up so at the end of the day I cant say the monotonous early game money grind doesnt take away from the rest of the game for me however I can see how this can be a problem for some of the more impatient people on steam.

Tibbles
Tibbles

Sold out to the Chinese Gov, disappointed

Power of Yoghurt
Power of Yoghurt

The pig headed men shall rule the world!

Watermelon Cat
Watermelon Cat

I love Don't Starve, but I really don't like Hamlet. It is hard to really nail down why, but the new area, its seasons and its monsters are just not fun to deal with. The game is built around interacting with the pigs and their shops also, which I don't really enjoy either.

Most of the new characters aren't much fun either. I sort of like Wormwood. Wilba is also okay. With the others I typically just find myself wanting to play another character though.

All in all, it's just not worth it.

Susspiria
Susspiria

Seems to have a lot of cool potential but i can't even load the world :(

Nazgul
Nazgul

totally worth the money, i only bought don't starve to play hamlet and i don't regret it, Hamlet offers so many new features and mechanics to the game and gives it so much fresh air to work with, if you want a brand new experience to the franchise i recommend buying this dlc

Ƥyrefeather
Ƥyrefeather

"In the February 7th, 2019 update of Hamlet's Early Access, Warbucks was removed from the game, making him unplayable for any new Hamlet-enabled world. He is the only character to have ever been retired/removed after being implemented in the Don't Starve series." - Don't Starve Wiki

"Ultimately we felt Warbucks was both culturally problematic and not also very interesting to play so we decided to start over. We understand some people may like aspects of him, and perhaps we will bring some of those aspects back one day. In the meantime, we've decided to move on." - Klei Entertainment

That was my favorite character. I like the spiffing brit 'chap chap cheerio' type. He also fit perfectly with the more medieval-exploration style theme of the DLC. Why didn't they just alter his abilities if he wasn't fun to play like they do with every other character?

Turtle Droppings
Turtle Droppings

The mechanics of this expansion are honestly complete ass

nelek2011
nelek2011

Most fun I had in Don't Starve!

ninjafish0627
ninjafish0627

Don’t starve is a great game, even got my younger cousins to play Don’t starve but they aren’t cut out for hamlet just quite yet. (They both struggle to get to day 30 on regular don’t starve)
Overall 12/10 game.

iaskins01
iaskins01

I LOVE Hamlet, its mechanics are really neat and it kinda just changes your gameplay and strategy, i have a few complaints like i miss the bosses coming to you, and i dont like how everything is so fast. i love the charecters there all so cool and fun, i like wormwood, better then all the others but wheelers close.... dose wagstaff count?

Low Tier God
Low Tier God

cant believe they added capitalism to dont starve

Carlos
Carlos

Don't Starve ROG is one of my top games of the last decade. Shipwrecked is great too. This however...I didn't enjoy this expansion at all, sadly. I don't think the newly introduced mechanics are very successful. Too bad.

:(
:(

I have over 500+ hours combined in all of the don't starve games (plus a couple hundred from when I had the chrome addon way back then heh), and i STILL can't fucking figure out a proper strat because im wired to do the same stuff I do in ROG/DST. It's a completely different game when you're playing hamlet, and I love it. Still can't believe how many times i've died in this game bc my character sneezed

Peonlord
Peonlord

I like RoG but definitely not this DLC.
Many mechanics is punishing and does not even give you time to prepare and react. The DLC requires player to pause and search wiki heavily, sometimes you does not even know what to search becoz you dont even know the mob's name

e.g.
Fog + heavy rain combo in 13 days
silk is fxxking hard to get in Hamlet, no way i can craft nothing for wet resistance other than a sore Straw Hat

Stupid BFB wreck your whole base and kidnap my Wigfrid without carrying any food
how do i supposed to know i cannot built my base in certain terrain ??

Troy
Troy

Definitely get this one.
The people complaining about the mechanics are angry that they're so different,
but they're what makes this DLC the best.

LOSE: ashtonthefirst
LOSE: ashtonthefirst

webber wears funny mask and takes normal pill 10/10

LuxuriantRabbit
LuxuriantRabbit

This version of Hamlet is a step beyond great innovation. I highly recommend getting this DLC Pack. New characters, new mechanics, temples, new monster economy but a really difficult world compared to the old version, you can have a nervous breakdown while playing.

But get it anyway, you won't regret it.

4ks_onBurke
4ks_onBurke

Nothing else has had me smiling constantly as I play, nothing else has had me murder my parents for extra play time, nothing else has consumed my entire soul and transformed me into a demon. This... thing... it's just too addictive, you know those mobile game ads that use sh.itty reverse psychology like "DONT PLAY THIS GAME IT'S TOO ADDICTING" and you're like "wtf are you on" well this game is ACTUALLY too good, I literally can't focus on class I'm thinking about my go.d damn don't starve base while I get called on in school I can't learn anymore I've been functionally broken as a human being. you will die of starvation after refusing to leave your pc 1000/5 stars

seriously though all the bad reviews on this dlc say the game is too hard because of certain game mechanics, but I promise you every danger in this dlc has a counter built into the it, it's just going to take a few hours to figure out what each item does if you decide you're not going to the wiki

Max Damage
Max Damage

Buggy and unfinished mess, just like Shipwrecked, except many times more tedious to play:
- shopkeepers keep getting stuck on display cases, have fun re-entering shops just to fix this every time;
- selling/buying items is slow and atrocious, because you can only do 1 item at a time;
- need 1 cloth for you gas mask, or maybe a hound tooth for sewing kit? You will have to keep buying overpriced items in hope that maybe one day you'll get what you want on display before your money or patience runs out;
- besides periodic bat waves, there're no threats besides ones you get yourself in;
- only 2 seasons besides the default one; each season lasts 11 days, giving you barely enough time to prepare for the next one;
- Humid season is nothing but annoyance without reward; dense fog that pretty much restricts you to pith hat (or cowl, if you happen to have the very rare resources it requires) for headwear, followed by heavy rain that restricts you to either umbrella or lantern;
- Lush season is a pain to prepare to, and once you do, you still have to deal with annoying brambles everywhere;
- the best reward you will ever get from a boss is bundle wrap blueprint;
- items get stuck inside walls, squirrels climb up trees that have been chopped, nettle farm reset every time you quit;
- just like Shipwrecked, there is no endgame, only Aporkalypse that lasts forever unless you look up on wiki how to stop it;
- something as basic and necessary as flint or silk is rare and a pain to get;
- ruins are mostly pointless, you still will have to usem them a lot to once again cut through regrowing vines every other room just to get to the other island;
- instead of on big city, there're two small-medium sized ones, just so to waste your time even more;
- there're no unique setpieces even, each world plays and feels the same.

While Shipwrecked felt like wasted potential, I can't point to even one thing about Hamlet that would make it worth buying. Save your time and money, play something else.

ilhanthekhan
ilhanthekhan

b*k toplayarak para kazanıyorsunuz literally turkey

Strängelöve
Strängelöve

A Good dlc hindered by a bug/developer oversight that leads to pyromanic guards burning everything down, due to not using their weapon to fight enemies. I can not recomend this because it does not feel like a finished product compared to the other dlc they released and is extremely disapointing considering how well previous content has been. Load times are also extremely long on any map size above default. Medium and Large take about the same length of time to generate making me doubt it being a size issue and rather an optimization issue. Compartively RoG and SW worlds of larger sizes generate in good time with the larger the map making it take slightly longer as would be expected.

Other than that one key issue and the whole removal of Warbucks for being "culturally problematic" it is an innovative dlc. I just wish Klei would have polished it more.

The Unseen
The Unseen

It adds capitalism to the game. It a really good DLC and a must have for regular players.

ibrahemEmad
ibrahemEmad

Hamlet great character free Dst thank the playing

cyrusn26
cyrusn26

I didn't feel like relearning the game. Another game in my library that I never play. You may love it, most these games are great.

Tantronic
Tantronic

It's the least updated of the 3 dlcs, but goddamn is it the most unique and fun one

wallap199
wallap199

This adds town building, decoration, and cute vibes with CAPITALISM. Oincs is all you need. Collect the oincs and be rich. All must pay taxes! Complete new dynamic to the base game

miwa_meow
miwa_meow

This is my favourite expansion for that game. The colour cubes are pretty, the new items are very fitting. The ancient herald ruins rush at the beginning helps with making every move matter. And the fancy pigs are very cute.

FoxyBr
FoxyBr

I dont recommend to buy this if you wanna play, its better to buy dst cuz klei dont wanna update ds offline anymore, i just buy it to have the wornwood on dst, but you still can have fun its a really good game anyway.

MakinMyWayDowntown
MakinMyWayDowntown

Great DLC honestly changes the playstyle entirely but its a whole new world to explore with new everything and there is even an economy probably the most interesting DLC they have added, 10/10 thanks for letting me beta test as always its a pleasure and i love all your games!

Chem Storm
Chem Storm

I love this game and all the other versions so much. i have a chester tattoo :) best game ever

Omen
Omen

Hamlet breaks a lot of the Don't Starve rules, and I absolutely love it for that.
- Lampposts, a structure that naturally generates along the roads of the pig cities, will give off infinite light in a radius around them during dusk and night. After acquiring the key to the city, a late-game Hamlet item, you're allowed to build your own lampposts wherever you'd like.
- There are shops, and a unique currency (oincs) for spending at them. This allows you to exchange items like hound's teeth, silk, stingers, and gold for oincs, which can then be used to buy items like cutlass supreme, gears, living logs, mandrakes, coconades, and even Deerclops eyeballs! Items that previously had high demand, but incredibly low supply (one every in-game year, if you get good RNG), can now be simply bought from shops once you've got access to them and a surplus of more common items that can be sold.
- You can finally build houses, allowing you to escape the night time and seasonal dangers. You've got many options for floors, walls, and furniture (all costing oincs to install), and you can expand said houses to have as many rooms as you feel like. You're able to telelocate creatures inside, too. I can't wait to see how people incorporate these into their bases!
- Merged crafting, the topic of many forum debates during the development of SW, has finally be added with Hamlet. This means that prototyping an item or structure in one world will allow you to craft it in any world. You can have rabbit hutches in SW, regular pig houses in Hamlet, prime ape huts and obsidian fire pits in RoG... Any structure you can think of can be placed in any world, as long as there's valid land for it (you won't be able to place water structures in RoG due to lack of water tiles, for example), and any item can be crafted anywhere. This also adds a lot of utility to SW's brain of thought, since you can craft many RoG and Hamlet items without ever leaving SW.
Hamlet is by far the best DLC for endgame players, as it adds such useful new features and finally allows cross-world bases to reach their full potential. It's definitely still fun and interesting when playing on its own (I sunk a good chunk of time into the open beta, before world merging was fully implemented), but I'd especially recommend it if you enjoy keeping worlds for hundreds of days and building up big bases.

Nasreal
Nasreal

This game i for the intelligent minded, those who accept the hardship that comes with not being able to do certain tasks before overcoming certain obstacles. This game not only incorporates different types of real-world problems but also provides new experiences that the consumer will wish they could've experiences in the real world. For instance ever thought about giving a pig meat and them shitting out gold, that would be sick.

Ham time
Ham time

fun but very hard. Lightning will attack you. Gold is expensive sometimes. still fun. I like buying and decorating the house

DogFrog
DogFrog

Awesome addition, completely flips resource values on its head, and adds trading with villagers and a much more dangerous outside world, meaning you actually have to pay attention when walking around instead of afk walking to whatever resources you need.

Despite resources being easier to get, staying alive is much harder, and it really tests your knowledge of what to get and how to get it, so definitely not for newbies, but a great time, the pigs alone are very entertaining.

JC-Hammer
JC-Hammer

World doesn't generate for 10+ minutes, returned for refund because eff dat.