Don’t Starve – Giant Edition: info, screenshots and trailer

Today, Nintendo revealed that Don’t Starve: Giant Edition was coming out on Wii U (this Spring in North America). It’s a survival game in which you control Wilson, a Gentlman Scientist suddenly teleported to a mysterious wilderness world by a demon, who traps him there. You have to explore this unwelcoming world (full of strange creatures, traps, and surprises) however you like: you can gather ressources and craft items that suit your own playstyle.

The game itself is pretty hardcore: no tutorial, no equipment at the start of the game, permadeath… surviving certainly won’t be easy! To survive, you’ll have to farm, fight, craft and scavenge. You can even experiment and exploit seasons, propagation, hunger, sanity, monster AI… Don’t Starve gameplay mechanics are pretty deep, and offer lots of challenge and replay value. There’s even additional characters with special abilities to unlock… and a tough-as-nail hard more that will make you die, die, die, and die some more.

The world of Don’t Starve is randomly generated, meaning you get a difference experience every time you play it. It includes multiple biomes and dangerous, subterranean ruins, and more. The game also offers a very unique artstyle, with meticulously animated 2D in a 3D world, dark and whimsical visuals, but also thousands of lines of player-character descriptions, which add lots of flavour to this already unique world. On Wii U, players will be able to find their way thanks to a map on the GamePad, which is also used for Off-TV!

Here is the trailer uploaded earlier today by Nintendo of America:

And now, some screenshots:

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition (Wii U eShop) comes out this Spring in North America.