Don’t Starve Together is still coming to mobile, but not to Netflix
- Don’t Starve Together is no longer coming to Netflix Games
- But it will be coming to mobile on iOS and Android regardless
- Playdigious and Klei Entertainment promise an update on the launch at some point in the future
It’s been a long period of radio silence since we covered the announcement that Don’t Starve Together was coming to Netflix Games back in June of 2024. And we’ve got both good news and bad news. The bad is that it won’t be coming to Netflix, but the good is that Don’t Starve Together is still coming to mobile.
Playdigious is still working with Klei Entertainment to bring Don’t Starve Together to mobile. The gloomy, Tim Burton-esque Don’t Starve series sees you stranded on an island filled with hostile wildlife. As a variety of quirky, oddball characters, your objective is to gather resources and survive, but most importantly don’t starve.
Originally slated to arrive exclusively on Netflix Games, Don’t Starve Together will now launch globally for iOS and Android via Google Play and the iOS App Store. While we don’t have a definitive release date yet, both Klei Entertainment and Playdigious promise that one is indeed incoming.
No Netflix for you
So, by the sounds of it, it seems as if Don’t Starve Together’s exclusivity deal with Netflix fell through. And while it’s good to know that it will still be arriving globally, I still can’t help but wonder what this (and the demise of other indie exclusives like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon on the service) says about Netflix Games future commitment to the indie scene.
I mean, Don’t Starve is not a small franchise by any means and is arguably one of the most iconic survival indies of all time. And if that can lose out, what hope is there for others? It’s a shame because Netflix’s indie catalogue has been one of its biggest bonus points for my money.
If you want to know more about my perspective take a quick dig through my look at the launch of Squid Game: Unleashed, and why I think that Netflix’s increased focus on its own properties may be bad for the significant crop of indies it has thus far had on the service.
